From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ewan D. Milne" Subject: Re: SCSI Oops: Unable to handle kernel NULL ptr dereference Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:01:39 -0400 Message-ID: <1502402499.4120.133.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20170810170537.Horde.8CxBesYMH_QVGbAB7dui6vz@www.vfemail.net> Reply-To: emilne@redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50118 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752440AbdHJWBk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:01:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170810170537.Horde.8CxBesYMH_QVGbAB7dui6vz@www.vfemail.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: manday@openmail.cc Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org [cc's snipped to linux-scsi ] On Thu, 2017-08-10 at 17:05 +0000, manday@openmail.cc wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to report this rare panic I experienced today. I've been on > 4.12.3 since it was released and got this panic totally unexpected, > probably when terminating my WL compositor. I attach to this message a > capture of the screen. The problem occurred never before and never > after since, suggesting I will not be able to reproduce it easily. > Perhaps it means something to someone. > > Linux air 4.12.3 #4 SMP Fri Jul 28 12:07:06 CEST 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) > Core(TM)i5-6267U CPU @ 2.90GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > I don't know what additional information might be useful so if there > is anything else I should provide please tell me. > > Best regards, > Cedric Your stack trace indicates some kind of corruption in a kmem cache used by the SCSI code, uncovered when the block queue was being freed. Can you describe what SCSI hardware is connected to your machine? A snippet of your boot messages showing the hardware probe would help. -Ewan