FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-6): commit: 6393e11b84a5116ea99d7a05d0dcada2acea347f ("kernfs, sysfs, cgroup, intel_rdt: Support fs_context") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git mount-context in testcase: trinity with following parameters: runtime: 300s test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester. test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 256M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 33f54afb25 | 6393e11b84 | +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 2 | | boot_failures | 0 | 6 | | kernel_BUG_at_fs/super.c | 0 | 6 | | invalid_opcode:#[##] | 0 | 6 | | EIP:vfs_get_tree | 0 | 6 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 0 | 6 | +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 10.046412] kernel BUG at fs/super.c:1716! [ 10.046901] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 10.047397] Modules linked in: [ 10.047721] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.16.0-rc4-00170-g6393e11 #129 [ 10.048344] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 10.049062] EIP: vfs_get_tree+0x5c/0xee [ 10.049399] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0 [ 10.049774] EAX: 00000030 EBX: c9d00a00 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 0000001c [ 10.050318] ESI: 00000000 EDI: c1798780 EBP: 00000027 ESP: c0027f14 [ 10.050859] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 [ 10.051327] CR0: 80050033 CR2: b7ef4588 CR3: 09d91d80 CR4: 000006b0 [ 10.051919] Call Trace: [ 10.052140] ? do_mount+0x8a7/0xab0 [ 10.052454] ? memdup_user+0x36/0x4e [ 10.052776] ? SyS_mount+0x52/0x72 [ 10.053076] ? do_int80_syscall_32+0x57/0xc9 [ 10.053467] ? entry_INT80_32+0x31/0x31 [ 10.053854] Code: f0 e9 ae 00 00 00 8b 13 89 d8 ff 52 18 85 c0 0f 88 9f 00 00 00 8b 43 08 85 c0 75 11 8b 43 04 ff 30 68 f3 6f 6b c1 e8 5a 58 f7 ff <0f> 0b 8b b0 84 00 00 00 83 be 9c 00 00 00 00 75 02 0f 0b 8b 43 [ 10.055480] EIP: vfs_get_tree+0x5c/0xee SS:ESP: 0068:c0027f14 [ 10.056043] ---[ end trace 1d2e9a62012a7a13 ]--- To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, lkp