FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: cc44ddf7f666875a3062daef112c8616de9bdb34 ("kernfs, sysfs, cgroup: Support fs_context") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git mount-context in testcase: trinity with following parameters: runtime: 300s test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester. test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 420M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 7f8b6dda64 | cc44ddf7f6 | +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 2 | | boot_failures | 0 | 6 | | BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel | 0 | 6 | | Oops:#[##] | 0 | 6 | | EIP:cgroup_fs_context_free | 0 | 6 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 0 | 6 | +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 9.571023] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000044 [ 9.571870] IP: cgroup_fs_context_free+0x1a/0x76 [ 9.572469] *pdpt = 0000000016679001 *pde = 0000000000000000 [ 9.572471] [ 9.573487] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT [ 9.573961] Modules linked in: [ 9.574414] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G S 4.12.0-rc4-00149-gcc44ddf #3 [ 9.575454] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014 [ 9.576684] task: d903c000 task.stack: d9040000 [ 9.577274] EIP: cgroup_fs_context_free+0x1a/0x76 [ 9.577856] EFLAGS: 00010287 CPU: 0 [ 9.578343] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: ffffffea EDX: c107a517 [ 9.579066] ESI: d6653a80 EDI: d6653a80 EBP: d9041f18 ESP: d9041f10 [ 9.579806] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 [ 9.593513] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000044 CR3: 19139be0 CR4: 000006f0 [ 9.594245] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 9.594971] DR6: fffe0ff0 DR7: 00000400 [ 9.595490] Call Trace: [ 9.595887] put_fs_context+0x34/0x8c [ 9.596420] do_mount+0x815/0x839 [ 9.596883] ? _copy_from_user+0x38/0x51 [ 9.597423] ? strndup_user+0x27/0x3f [ 9.597918] SyS_mount+0x52/0x76 [ 9.598386] do_int80_syscall_32+0x46/0x83 [ 9.598915] entry_INT80_32+0x31/0x31 [ 9.599422] EIP: 0xb7681c3e [ 9.599866] EFLAGS: 00000296 CPU: 0 [ 9.600369] EAX: ffffffda EBX: 0804a3a9 ECX: 0804a3a1 EDX: 0804a3a9 [ 9.601105] ESI: 0000000e EDI: 00000000 EBP: bf92f008 ESP: bf92ef6c [ 9.601836] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 007b [ 9.602490] Code: 48 00 74 0a 55 89 e5 e8 7b 3d 00 00 5d c3 31 c0 c3 55 89 e5 56 89 c6 53 8b 40 54 e8 3e a1 04 00 8b 46 58 e8 36 a1 04 00 8b 5e 40 43 44 01 75 39 b8 01 00 00 00 e8 af 29 fd ff 8b 43 18 a8 03 [ 9.604640] EIP: cgroup_fs_context_free+0x1a/0x76 SS:ESP: 0068:d9041f10 [ 9.605419] CR2: 0000000000000044 [ 9.605899] ---[ end trace 8e72d62a2c66ef5a ]--- To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/01org/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Xiaolong