Description of problem: I was trying to unmount a USB hard drive by using the 'eject' button on the GUI. I right clicked on 'device notifier' to get this. Additional info: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000a0 IP: [<c095b36d>] _raw_spin_lock+0xd/0x30 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: vfat fat usblp ppp_deflate zlib_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_generic slhc ipt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast ip6table_mangle ip6t_REJECT bnep lockd nf_conntrack_ipv6 bluetooth nf_defrag_ipv6 iptable_nat nf_nat iptable_mangle nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables be2iscsi iscsi_boot_sysfs bnx2i cnic uio cxgb4i cxgb4 cxgb3i cxgb3 mdio libcxgbi ib_iser rdma_cm ib_addr iw_cm ib_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel uvcvideo snd_hda_codec arc4 videobuf2_vmalloc snd_hwdep videobuf2_memops snd_seq option videobuf2_core usb_wwan snd_seq_device snd_pcm ath5k videodev iTCO_wdt ath iTCO_vendor_support mac80211 media snd_page_alloc snd_timer sparse_keymap cfg80211 snd rfkill i2c_i801 soundcore coretemp acerhdf jmb38x_ms memstick lpc_ich microcode serio_raw joydev uinput mmc_block r8169 sdhci_pci i915 sdhci mii mmc_core i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper drm i2c_core wmi video usb_storage sunrpc Pid: 1604, comm: nepomukservices Not tainted 3.6.10-5.fc18.i686 #1 Acer AOA150/ EIP: 0060:[<c095b36d>] EFLAGS: 00210292 CPU: 1 EIP is at _raw_spin_lock+0xd/0x30 EAX: 000000a0 EBX: d3b1bb60 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000100 ESI: 00000000 EDI: f8ec23c0 EBP: f070df30 ESP: f070df30 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 CR0: 80050033 CR2: 000000a0 CR3: 3059c000 CR4: 000007c0 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 Process nepomukservices (pid: 1604, ti=f070c000 task=f0660000 task.ti=f070c000) Stack: f070df40 f8ebf107 d3b1bb60 d3b1bbfc f070df4c f8ebf1a6 d3b1bb60 f070df60 c055ab38 d3b1bb60 d3b1bbb4 f205b000 f070df78 c055b171 f0723540 d7cf4f50 f0723540 d3b1bb60 f070df94 c057c487 00000000 d7cf4f5c f0723540 f0723a80 Call Trace: [<f8ebf107>] fat_detach+0x27/0x70 [fat] [<f8ebf1a6>] fat_evict_inode+0x56/0x60 [fat] [<c055ab38>] evict+0x88/0x150 [<c055b171>] iput+0xc1/0x140 [<c057c487>] fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x117/0x120 [<c057df72>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x52/0x90 [<c096219f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 [<c0950000>] ? powernowk8_init+0x181/0x189 Code: ff ff ff ff 89 e5 ba 01 00 00 00 e8 ee fe ff ff 5d c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 89 e5 3e 8d 74 26 00 ba 00 01 00 00 <f0> 66 0f c1 10 0f b6 ce 38 d1 74 10 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 f3 90 EIP: [<c095b36d>] _raw_spin_lock+0xd/0x30 SS:ESP 0068:f070df30 CR2: 00000000000000a0 Potential duplicate: bug 861615
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 768534 ***