I'm getting the following with 2.6.30-rc5-00096-ga4d7749: [ 16.433725] parport_pc 00:0a: reported by Plug and Play ACPI [ 16.433845] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] [ 16.434699] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000d8 [ 16.434816] IP: [] get_domain_for_dev+0x57/0x6a0 [ 16.434896] PGD 11892e067 PUD 118cd0067 PMD 0 [ 16.435031] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 16.435133] last sysfs file: /sys/module/parport/initstate [ 16.435181] CPU 1 [ 16.435251] Modules linked in: parport_pc(+) parport dell_laptop dcdbas intel_agp serio_raw evdev usbhid hid ehci_hcd uhci_hcd pata_acpi ide_pci_generic [ 16.435718] Pid: 1774, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.30-rc5-dmar-00096-ga4d7749 #58 Latitude E4300 [ 16.435781] RIP: 0010:[] [] get_domain_for_dev+0x57/0x6a0 [ 16.435870] RSP: 0018:ffff8801184cdaf8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 16.435916] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88011a6e2380 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 16.435964] RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0000000000000030 RDI: ffff88011a6e2380 [ 16.436012] RBP: ffff8801184cdb78 R08: 0000000000ffffff R09: ffff8801194a0000 [ 16.436075] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000000a4 R12: 0000000000001000 [ 16.436123] R13: 0000000000000030 R14: ffff88011a6e2380 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 16.436172] FS: 00007fbbf8a176f0(0000) GS:ffff880028038000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 16.436231] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 16.436277] CR2: 00000000000000d8 CR3: 0000000118cda000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 16.436324] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 16.436372] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 16.436420] Process modprobe (pid: 1774, threadinfo ffff8801184cc000, task ffff8801188fd980) [ 16.436479] Stack: [ 16.436519] 0000000000000246 ffffffff81644ec0 0000004000000000 ffffffff81644a80 [ 16.436651] ffffffff81644a80 ffff88011a6e2400 ffff8801188fd980 0000000000001000 [ 16.436850] 0000000000000000 ffff88011a6e2400 ffff8801184cdbe8 ffff88011a6e2380 [ 16.437005] Call Trace: [ 16.437005] [] get_valid_domain_for_dev+0x1e/0x90 [ 16.437005] [] __intel_map_single+0x44/0x170 [ 16.437005] [] intel_alloc_coherent+0x92/0xd0 [ 16.437005] [] parport_pc_probe_port+0x8cd/0xfb0 [parport_pc] [ 16.437005] [] parport_pc_pnp_probe+0x18e/0x230 [parport_pc] [ 16.437005] [] pnp_device_probe+0xa4/0x120 [ 16.437005] [] driver_probe_device+0xb1/0x2b0 [ 16.437005] [] __driver_attach+0x93/0xa0 [ 16.437005] [] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0xa0 [ 16.437005] [] bus_for_each_dev+0x6b/0xa0 [ 16.437005] [] driver_attach+0x1c/0x20 [ 16.437005] [] bus_add_driver+0x1a5/0x2e0 [ 16.437005] [] driver_register+0x79/0x160 [ 16.437005] [] pnp_register_driver+0x1c/0x20 [ 16.437005] [] parport_pc_init+0x39c/0x3b3 [parport_pc] [ 16.437005] [] ? parport_pc_init+0x0/0x3b3 [parport_pc] [ 16.437005] [] do_one_initcall+0x3c/0x170 [ 16.437005] [] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x63/0x80 [ 16.437005] [] sys_init_module+0xad/0x200 [ 16.437005] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 16.437005] Code: 74 22 4c 8b 60 30 4d 85 e4 74 19 4c 89 e0 48 8b 5d d8 4c 8b 65 e0 4c 8b 6d e8 4c 8b 75 f0 4c 8b 7d f8 c9 c3 49 8b 46 10 4c 89 f7 <48> 8b 80 d8 00 00 00 44 8b 38 e8 8a 52 ff ff 48 89 45 90 48 85 [ 16.437005] RIP [] get_domain_for_dev+0x57/0x6a0 [ 16.437005] RSP [ 16.437005] CR2: 00000000000000d8 [ 16.440745] ---[ end trace 9244fcdcb95e3383 ]--- and then a little later, another oops while loading dcdbas: [ 23.717004] [] get_valid_domain_for_dev+0x1e/0x90 [ 23.717004] [] __intel_map_single+0x44/0x170 [ 23.717004] [] intel_alloc_coherent+0x92/0xd0 [ 23.717004] [] smi_data_buf_realloc+0xcb/0x220 [dcdbas] [ 23.717004] [] smi_data_buf_size_store+0x3a/0x60 [dcdbas] [ 23.717004] [] dev_attr_store+0x1b/0x20 [ 23.717004] [] sysfs_write_file+0xc5/0x140 [ 23.717004] [] vfs_write+0xcb/0x190 [ 23.717004] [] sys_write+0x50/0x90 [ 23.717004] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Hardware is a Dell E4300, BIOS A05, with a docking station (that includes parport) attached. I don't see the parport oops when booted without the docking station, but the dcdbas oops is still present. I've attached the complete dmesg; more debug info is available at http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/sysinfo/1242072617_cvpe4300_2.6.30-rc5-dmar-00096-ga4d7749/ -andy