Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c01b1712 *pde = 00102001 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 3 EIP: 0060:[] Tainted: G U EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.5-7.283-bigsmp SLES9_SP3_BRANCH-20061129165553) EIP is at bdevname+0x2/0x20 eax: 00000000 ebx: f68ee480 ecx: f6a05ed4 edx: f6a05ed4 esi: 00000000 edi: f68ee4a0 ebp: eea93c80 esp: f6a05ec0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process md2_multipath (pid: 8183, threadinfo=f6a04000 task=f6d5c660) Stack: f919e22d f919ed1e 00000001 00000008 c0125f27 00000002 5a00c580 414c75f4 c0426e00 c38fc660 f6d5c660 cdd9dd00 c3907fb8 00000000 f68ee4a0 f697e400 f919e3df 00000000 f697e400 f6954c00 eea93c80 f697e400 f697e410 c02c7f85 Call Trace: [] print_multipath_conf+0x5d/0xb0 [multipath] [] load_balance_newidle+0x97/0x100 [] multipath_add_disk+0x1f/0xd0 [multipath] [] md_check_recovery+0x215/0x3b0 [] multipathd+0x19/0x170 [multipath] [] prepare_to_wait+0x58/0x70 [] md_thread+0x157/0x1a5 [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [] md_thread+0x0/0x1a5 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Code: 8b 10 8b 40 58 81 e2 ff ff 0f 00 2b 50 04 e9 db fd ff ff 8d