There also was some case of a different panic which looked like below: [ 16.191583] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000148 [ 16.201096] IP: [] check_preempt_wakeup+0x137/0x270 [ 16.208349] PGD 0 [ 16.211201] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 16.214877] Modules linked in: btrfs xor raid6_pq libcrc32c crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd igb ixgbe i2c_algo_bit ahci libahci dca ptp pps_core mdio megaraid_sas wmi [ 16.238385] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.13.0-88-generic #135-Ubuntu [ 16.246509] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R630/0CNCJW, BIOS 1.0.4 08/28/2014 [ 16.254918] task: ffff883fd26b8000 ti: ffff881fd2aac000 task.ti: ffff881fd2aac000 [ 16.263327] RIP: 0010:[] [] check_preempt_wakeup+0x137/0x270 [ 16.273317] RSP: 0018:ffff881fd2aad9e8 EFLAGS: 00010087 [ 16.279280] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 16.287281] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff881fce08b000 RDI: ffff881fff413200 [ 16.295283] RBP: ffff881fd2aada20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 16.303284] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 16.311285] R13: ffff883fd26b8000 R14: ffff881fff413180 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 16.319292] FS: 00007fce8b255840(0000) GS:ffff881fff400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 16.328379] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 16.334827] CR2: 0000000000000148 CR3: 0000001fd0fb7000 CR4: 00000000001407f0 [ 16.342833] Stack: [ 16.345099] ffff881fd2aada10 ffffffff8109fde5 ffff881fff413180 ffff881fce08b000 [ 16.353487] ffff881fff413180 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffff881fd2aada38 [ 16.361884] ffffffff8109aa25 ffff881fce08b000 ffff881fd2aada60 ffffffff8109aa59 [ 16.370276] Call Trace: [ 16.373045] [] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xb5/0x100 [ 16.379606] [] check_preempt_curr+0x85/0xa0 [ 16.386154] [] ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0xf0 [ 16.392317] [] ttwu_do_activate.constprop.75+0x5d/0x70 [ 16.399935] [] try_to_wake_up+0x1d2/0x2c0 [ 16.406287] [] default_wake_function+0x12/0x20 [ 16.413135] [] pollwake+0x66/0x70 [ 16.418715] [] ? wake_up_state+0x20/0x20 [ 16.424982] [] __wake_up_common+0x58/0x90 [ 16.431335] [] __wake_up_sync_key+0x45/0x60 [ 16.437890] [] sock_def_readable+0x3a/0x70 [ 16.444346] [] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x1f1/0x400 [ 16.451189] [] sock_sendmsg+0x8b/0xc0 [ 16.457163] [] ? unlock_page+0x23/0x30 [ 16.463237] [] ? do_wp_page+0x392/0x7b0 [ 16.469399] [] ___sys_sendmsg+0x389/0x3a0 [ 16.475763] [] ? __do_page_fault+0x204/0x560 [ 16.482411] [] ? __dentry_kill+0x15c/0x1e0 [ 16.488866] [] ? dput+0xad/0x180 [ 16.494358] [] ? mntput+0x24/0x40 [ 16.499942] [] ? __fput+0x17e/0x260 [ 16.505713] [] __sys_sendmsg+0x42/0x80 [ 16.511782] [] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20 [ 16.517659] [] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f [ 16.524396] Code: 00 00 85 ff 0f 84 37 ff ff ff 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 0f 1f 00 48 8b 9b 40 01 00 00 4d 8b a4 24 40 01 00 00 <48> 8b bb 48 01 00 00 49 3b bc 24 48 01 00 00 75 e0 44 89 45 d0 [ 16.546779] RIP [] check_preempt_wakeup+0x137/0x270 [ 16.554113] RSP [ 16.558035] CR2: 0000000000000148 [ 16.561769] ---[ end trace d66b8aa0c23f3c89 ]---