FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 48d9b0d43105e0da2b7c135eedd24e51234fb5e4 ("block: account statistics for passthrough requests") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master in testcase: rcuperf with following parameters: runtime: 300s perf_type: tasks on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 8G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +-------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 8148f0b564 | 48d9b0d431 | +-------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 0 | | boot_failures | 0 | 8 | | BUG:kernel_NULL_pointer_dereference,address | 0 | 8 | | Oops:#[##] | 0 | 8 | | EIP:blk_account_io_completion | 0 | 8 | | EIP:ide_output_data | 0 | 8 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception_in_interrupt | 0 | 8 | +-------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kernel test robot [ 14.392111] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000002ac [ 14.392607] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [ 14.392607] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page [ 14.392607] *pde = 00000000 [ 14.392607] Oops: 0002 [#1] [ 14.392607] CPU: 0 PID: 237 Comm: kworker/0:1H Not tainted 5.4.0-rc2-00011-g48d9b0d43105e #1 [ 14.392607] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 14.392607] Workqueue: kblockd drive_rq_insert_work [ 14.392607] EIP: blk_account_io_completion+0x7a/0xf0 [ 14.392607] Code: 89 54 24 08 31 d2 89 4c 24 04 31 c9 c7 04 24 02 00 00 00 c1 ee 09 e8 f5 21 a6 ff e8 70 5c a7 ff 8b 53 60 8d 04 bd 00 00 00 00 <01> b4 02 ac 02 00 00 8b 9a 88 02 00 00 85 db 74 11 85 d2 74 51 8b [ 14.392607] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f5b80000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 [ 14.392607] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f3031e70 ESP: f3031e54 [ 14.392607] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010046 [ 14.392607] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 000002ac CR3: 03c25000 CR4: 000406d0 [ 14.392607] Call Trace: [ 14.392607] [ 14.392607] ? blk_account_io_completion+0x38/0xf0 [ 14.392607] blk_update_request+0x85/0x420 [ 14.392607] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4f/0x60 [ 14.392607] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xca/0xe0 [ 14.392607] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4f/0x60 [ 14.392607] ? complete+0x41/0x50 [ 14.392607] ide_end_rq+0x38/0xa0 [ 14.392607] ide_complete_rq+0x3d/0x70 [ 14.392607] cdrom_newpc_intr+0x258/0xba0 [ 14.392607] ? find_held_lock+0x2f/0xa0 [ 14.392607] ? cdrom_analyze_sense_data+0x1b0/0x1b0 [ 14.392607] ide_intr+0x135/0x250 [ 14.392607] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x3e/0x250 [ 14.392607] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x1f/0x50 [ 14.392607] handle_irq_event+0x32/0x60 [ 14.392607] ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x160/0x160 [ 14.392607] handle_level_irq+0x6c/0x110 [ 14.392607] handle_irq+0x72/0xa0 [ 14.392607] [ 14.392607] do_IRQ+0x45/0xad [ 14.392607] common_interrupt+0x115/0x11c [ 14.392607] EIP: ide_output_data+0xb7/0x140 [ 14.392607] Code: 00 00 00 0f b7 03 66 89 07 83 c3 02 39 d3 75 f3 83 c4 14 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 8d 76 00 8b 4d ec d1 e9 80 7d f0 00 75 15 89 de 89 fa 66 6f 83 c4 14 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 85 c9 74 ee 49 [ 14.392607] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f5b800ac ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000170 [ 14.392607] ESI: f5b800b8 EDI: 00000170 EBP: f6a57dac ESP: f6a57d8c [ 14.392607] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 14.392607] ? print_usage_bug+0x9b/0x1f0 [ 14.392607] ? ide_output_data+0xb7/0x140 [ 14.392607] ? ide_set_handler+0x42/0x50 [ 14.392607] ide_transfer_pc+0x11c/0x2a0 [ 14.392607] ? ide_check_atapi_device+0x130/0x130 [ 14.392607] ? ide_pc_intr+0x3d0/0x3d0 [ 14.392607] ide_issue_pc+0x160/0x250 [ 14.392607] ? ide_check_atapi_device+0x130/0x130 [ 14.392607] ide_cd_do_request+0x18e/0x3d0 [ 14.392607] ide_issue_rq+0x13a/0x6a0 [ 14.392607] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x22/0x30 [ 14.392607] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xe4/0x190 [ 14.392607] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x22/0x30 [ 14.392607] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x38/0xe0 [ 14.392607] ? drive_rq_insert_work+0x7a/0xf0 [ 14.392607] drive_rq_insert_work+0x8a/0xf0 [ 14.392607] process_one_work+0x207/0x500 [ 14.392607] ? process_one_work+0x16b/0x500 [ 14.392607] worker_thread+0x39/0x400 [ 14.392607] kthread+0xee/0x110 [ 14.392607] ? process_one_work+0x500/0x500 [ 14.392607] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x30/0x30 [ 14.392607] ret_from_fork+0x1e/0x28 [ 14.392607] Modules linked in: [ 14.392607] CR2: 00000000000002ac [ 14.392607] ---[ end trace 2efe0b990b41cd59 ]--- To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-5.4.0-rc2-00011-g48d9b0d43105e .config make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=i386 olddefconfig prepare modules_prepare bzImage 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, Rong Chen