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SETGxWkwHiN66m--o8kAsQLDa3Lp3lrW On 1/2/2026 9:51 AM, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote: > Greetings!!! > > > IBM CI has reported a below crash. This occurs, in the TX path while > sending data over TCP. e.g., cloning the linux repo or running iperf3 tool. > > > Environment > ----------- > - Platform: IBM,9080-HEX Power11 (architected), HV: phyp (pSeries) > - Firmware: FW1110.01 (NH1110_069) > - Kernel: v6.19-rc3 (Linus master) > - Config: LE, PAGE_SIZE=64K, MMU=Radix, SMP NR_CPUS=8192, NUMA pSeries > - Workload: sustained TCP send from sshd > > > Traces: > > > [ 2480.578185] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000 > [ 2480.578189] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000f92830 > [ 2480.578192] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] > [ 2480.578195] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix  SMP NR_CPUS=8192 NUMA pSeries > [ 2480.578200] Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 > nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct > nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack bonding nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 > tls rfkill ip_set nf_tables nfnetlink kmem device_dax pseries_rng > vmx_crypto dax_pmem fuse ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod nd_pmem sg > papr_scm libnvdimm ibmvscsi ibmveth scsi_transport_srp pseries_wdt > [ 2480.578234] CPU: 31 UID: 0 PID: 1895 Comm: sshd Kdump: loaded Not > tainted 6.19.0-rc1-next-20251219 #1 VOLUNTARY > [ 2480.578239] Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX Power11 (architected) > 0x820200 0xf000007 of:IBM,FW1110.01 (NH1110_069) hv:phyp pSeries > [ 2480.578243] NIP:  c000000000f92830 LR: c000000000f92830 CTR: > c00000000002852c > [ 2480.578246] REGS: c000000071d3f0c0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted (6.19.0- > rc1-next-20251219) This looks like the same NULL pointer dereference in __dev_xmit_skb() fixed in v6.19-rc4 (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251230143959.325961-1-pabeni@redhat.com/). https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251218081844.809008-1-edumazet@google.com/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=c04de0c79534 Thanks, Alok