Hello,
I'm hitting this while fuzzing the kernel with Trinity:
[ 239.006244] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002ae [ 239.007011] IP: [<ffffffff819b3477>] snd_seq_timer_open+0xe7/0x130 [ 239.007011] PGD 785cd067 PUD 76964067 PMD 0 [ 239.007011] Oops: 0002 [#4] SMP [ 239.007011] CPU 0 [ 239.007011] Pid: 4288, comm: trinity-child7 Tainted: G D W 3.9.0-rc1+ #100 Bochs Bochs [ 239.007011] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff819b3477>] [<ffffffff819b3477>] snd_seq_timer_open+0xe7/0x130 [ 239.007011] RSP: 0018:ffff88006ece7d38 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 239.007011] RAX: 0000000000000286 RBX: ffff88007851b400 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 239.007011] RDX: 000000000000ffff RSI: ffff88006ece7d58 RDI: ffff88006ece7d38 [ 239.007011] RBP: ffff88006ece7d98 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 000000000000fffe [ 239.007011] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 239.007011] R13: ffff8800792c5400 R14: 0000000000e8f000 R15: 0000000000000007 [ 239.007011] FS: 00007f7aaa650700(0000) GS:ffff88007f800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 239.007011] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 239.007011] CR2: 00000000000002ae CR3: 000000006efec000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 239.007011] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 239.007011] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 239.007011] Process trinity-child7 (pid: 4288, threadinfo ffff88006ece6000, task ffff880076a8a290) [ 239.007011] Stack: [ 239.007011] 0000000000000286 ffffffff828f2be0 ffff88006ece7d58 ffffffff810f354d [ 239.007011] 65636e6575716573 2065756575712072 ffff8800792c0030 0000000000000000 [ 239.007011] ffff88006ece7d98 ffff8800792c5400 ffff88007851b400 ffff8800792c5520 [ 239.007011] Call Trace: [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff810f354d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff819b17e9>] snd_seq_queue_timer_open+0x29/0x70 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff819ae01a>] snd_seq_ioctl_set_queue_timer+0xda/0x120 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff819acb9b>] snd_seq_do_ioctl+0x9b/0xd0 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff819acbe0>] snd_seq_ioctl+0x10/0x20 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff811b9542>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x522/0x570 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff8130a4b3>] ? file_has_perm+0x83/0xa0 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff810f354d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff811b95ed>] sys_ioctl+0x5d/0xa0 [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff813663fe>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [ 239.007011] [<ffffffff81faed69>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 239.007011] Code: e8 ef b4 fd ff 85 c0 41 89 c4 79 18 44 89 e6 48 c7 c7 e0 f0 5f 82 31 c0 e8 e7 34 5e 00 eb 35 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 45 a0 45 31 e4 <48> c7 40 28 e0 2e 9b 81 4c 89 68 38 83 48 10 08 48 89 43 50 eb [ 239.007011] RIP [<ffffffff819b3477>] snd_seq_timer_open+0xe7/0x130 [ 239.007011] RSP <ffff88006ece7d38> [ 239.007011] CR2: 00000000000002ae [ 239.055294] ---[ end trace bfb5b965ff1d73a3 ]---
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