Seems to happen across all arches and fairly often during early boot. This is from my laptop since it's the easiest to get it from Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: printing eip: Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: 0214659c Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: *pde = 00000000 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: Modules linked in: Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: CPU: 0 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: EIP: 0060:[<0214659c>] Not tainted Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.8-1.524) Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: EIP is at kmem_cache_alloc+0x25/0x4c Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 000000d0 ecx: 00000000 edx: 29ee9000 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: esi: 00000246 edi: 00000000 ebp: feef8688 esp: 29ee9f24 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: Process udev (pid: 31, threadinfo=29ee9000 task=0361d2a0) Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: Stack: feef8688 29e8eb80 00000000 02177fc0 00000007 29ea3780 0215f2b5 036306d8 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: 29ee9f58 00000042 29e8f000 29ee9000 0215f1cf 036306d8 29ea3780 f9328701 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: 29e8f005 00000009 00000300 00000000 00000000 00001000 080bfe60 29e8f000 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: Call Trace: Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: [<02177fc0>] fcntl_setlk+0x13/0x219 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: [<0215f2b5>] dentry_open+0xe0/0x180 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: [<0215f1cf>] filp_open+0x36/0x3c Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: [<0217404c>] do_fcntl+0x1be/0x207 Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: [<0217415b>] sys_fcntl64+0x6c/0x7d Aug 20 15:46:54 bree kernel: Code: 8b 17 8b 02 85 c0 74 10 c7 42 0c 01 00 00 00 48 89 02 8b 44
kernel 1.526 got rid of the Oops in my case!
Should be fixed with 1.526 and later.
Closing out, as no longer present in the most recent trees.