Did someone see the same issue? My machine has a qla fiber card. This error is triggered because parameter buf of qla2x00_read_nvram_data is 0.
--yanmin **********************Console log************************ scsi 0:0:8:0: Processor SUPER GEM359 REV001 1.09 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 target0:0:8: asynchronous target0:0:8: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:8: Ending Domain Validation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:02.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 scsi1 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 3.0 <Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter> aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 67-100Mhz, 512 SCBs Adaptec aacraid driver 1.1-5[2449]-ms aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.3 loaded QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 qla2xxx 0000:05:01.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 16, iobase 0xf8862000 qla2xxx 0000:05:01.0: Configuring PCI space... qla2xxx 0000:05:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c04347db *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 5 EIP: 0060:[<c04347db>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.23-rc2 #1) EIP is at qla2x00_read_nvram_data+0x25/0x56 eax: 00005349 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 042d8138 edx: 0000007d esi: f7d9a34c edi: 00000001 ebp: 00000001 esp: f7e85d98 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f7e84000 task=f7e82000 task.ti=f7e84000) Stack: 00000000 c04347b6 00000000 f7d9a34c 00000000 c0425737 00000100 00000008 f7dc0000 00000000 00000000 00000024 f7d9a34c f7d9a34c f7d9a34c c39cc000 c398b13c f7d9a34c f7d9a34c f8862000 c0423db8 c06cbd17 c06ca4b9 c398b13c Call Trace: [<c04347b6>] qla2x00_read_nvram_data+0x0/0x56 [<c0425737>] qla2x00_nvram_config+0x7e/0x765 [<c0423db8>] qla2x00_initialize_adapter+0x113/0x226 [<c04208e1>] qla2x00_probe_one+0x8ea/0xcb9 [<c01aa54b>] sysfs_ilookup_test+0x0/0xd [<c0181acf>] ifind+0x8c/0x93 [<c01aa54b>] sysfs_ilookup_test+0x0/0xd [<c01aba78>] sysfs_create_link+0xf1/0x149 [<c02d7252>] pci_match_device+0x84/0xa4 [<c02d72be>] pci_device_probe+0x36/0x57 [<c034fc17>] driver_probe_device+0xe1/0x15f [<c034fd3b>] __driver_attach+0x0/0xab [<c034fdae>] __driver_attach+0x73/0xab [<c034f174>] bus_for_each_dev+0x37/0x59 [<c034fa6f>] driver_attach+0x16/0x18 [<c034fd3b>] __driver_attach+0x0/0xab [<c034f45e>] bus_add_driver+0x6d/0x170 [<c02d73fa>] __pci_register_driver+0x53/0x7f [<c07df181>] qla2x00_module_init+0xd4/0xfe [<c07be477>] kernel_init+0x14d/0x2af [<c05a39ad>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x5/0x7 [<c0124469>] schedule_tail+0x37/0x91 [<c0104d32>] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/