FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: 84c2f235ad130cf59911fdd1970d297d28540d35 ("platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: only register backlight device if FUJ02B1 is present") git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86.git testing in testcase: boot on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu IvyBridge -smp 2 -m 1G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 817d65498f | 84c2f235ad | +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 2 | 0 | | boot_failures | 18 | 18 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:softlockup:hung_tasks | 18 | | | general_protection_fault:#[##]KASAN | 0 | 18 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 0 | 18 | +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 25.324101] acerhdf: error getting hardware information [ 25.325373] hdaps: supported laptop not found! [ 25.326617] hdaps: driver init failed (ret=-19)! [ 25.328480] kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled [ 25.329196] kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access [ 25.330333] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] KASAN [ 25.331133] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.10.0-rc6-00053-g84c2f23 #2 [ 25.332287] task: ffff88002d908000 task.stack: ffff88002d910000 [ 25.333191] RIP: 0010:fujitsu_init+0x5fe/0x7b0 [ 25.333886] RSP: 0000:ffff88002d917de8 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 25.334698] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 1d6f24363de6ff2e RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 25.335800] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff99fb6c40 RDI: 0000000000000008 [ 25.336883] RBP: ffff88002d917e00 R08: ffff88003ffd301c R09: 0000000000000000 [ 25.337975] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff9b78af20 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 25.339074] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88002d917ea0 R15: ffffffff9acc7c38 [ 25.340168] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff9a442000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 25.341397] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 25.342342] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001ee20000 CR4: 00000000001406b0 [ 25.343443] Call Trace: [ 25.343835] ? hdaps_init+0x52/0x52 [ 25.344381] do_one_initcall+0x16b/0x2ff [ 25.345009] ? start_kernel+0x808/0x808 [ 25.345610] kernel_init_freeable+0x36a/0x4d2 [ 25.346287] ? rest_init+0xe0/0xe0 [ 25.346821] kernel_init+0xe/0x110 [ 25.347357] ? rest_init+0xe0/0xe0 [ 25.347891] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40 [ 25.348454] Code: e8 04 14 e7 fd 4d 8b 6d 38 48 b8 0a 48 30 61 7b b8 c6 3b 48 01 c3 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 49 8d 7d 08 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <8a> 04 02 84 c0 74 0d 3c 03 7f 09 48 c1 cb 13 e8 ca 14 e7 fd 48 [ 25.351363] RIP: fujitsu_init+0x5fe/0x7b0 RSP: ffff88002d917de8 [ 25.352318] ---[ end trace 7f86702e329cad63 ]--- [ 25.353059] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception [ 25.353889] Kernel Offset: 0x17800000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff) Elapsed time: 30 initrds=( To reproduce: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Xiaolong