Triggered this again by running ohai in a continuous loop, took about 24 hours to occur: [18438803.627371] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 [18438803.627388] IP: [] rb_next+0x1/0x50 [18438803.627402] PGD 1d0efa067 PUD 1d232d067 PMD 0 [18438803.627411] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [18438803.627419] CPU 1 [18438803.627422] Modules linked in: ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables isofs acpiphp [18438803.627447] [18438803.627452] Pid: 29083, comm: ohai Not tainted 3.2.0-23-virtual #36-Ubuntu [18438803.627460] RIP: e030:[] [] rb_next+0x1/0x50 [18438803.627469] RSP: e02b:ffff8801d225d808 EFLAGS: 00010046 [18438803.627473] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8801d2232400 RCX: 0000000000000000 [18438803.627479] RDX: fffffffffffffff0 RSI: ffff8801dffa2760 RDI: 0000000000000010 [18438803.627485] RBP: ffff8801d225d838 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [18438803.627490] R10: ffff8801dff866c0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [18438803.627497] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000280 R15: ffff8801d0992300 [18438803.627508] FS: 00007f34206c2700(0000) GS:ffff8801dff8f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [18438803.627515] CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [18438803.627521] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 00000001d0e9e000 CR4: 0000000000002660 [18438803.627527] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [18438803.627534] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [18438803.627541] Process ohai (pid: 29083, threadinfo ffff8801d225c000, task ffff8801d260adc0) [18438803.627547] Stack: [18438803.627551] ffff8801d225d838 ffffffff8104ece9 ffff8801d2232400 ffff8801dffa26c0 [18438803.627562] ffff8801d0f8fc00 0000000000000280 ffff8801d225d868 ffffffff810544b8 [18438803.627573] ffff8801d225d868 ffff8801dffa26c0 0000000000000001 ffff8801d260b168 [18438803.627584] Call Trace: [18438803.627596] [] ? pick_next_entity+0xb9/0xe0 [18438803.627604] [] pick_next_task_fair+0x38/0x70 [18438803.627861] [] __schedule+0x14c/0x6f0 [18438803.627874] [] ? prep_new_page+0x145/0x1e0 [18438803.627881] [] schedule+0x3f/0x60 [18438803.627889] [] schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0x12c/0x170 [18438803.627901] [] ? update_rmtp+0x70/0x70 [18438803.627908] [] ? hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x14/0x20 [18438803.627916] [] schedule_hrtimeout_range+0x13/0x20 [18438803.627927] [] poll_schedule_timeout+0x49/0x70 [18438803.627934] [] do_select+0x4d6/0x600 [18438803.627942] [] ? poll_freewait+0xe0/0xe0 [18438803.627949] [] ? __pollwait+0xf0/0xf0 [18438803.627956] [] ? __pollwait+0xf0/0xf0 [18438803.627966] [] ? xen_force_evtchn_callback+0xd/0x10 [18438803.627974] [] ? check_events+0x12/0x20 [18438803.627981] [] ? xen_force_evtchn_callback+0xd/0x10 [18438803.627988] [] ? check_events+0x12/0x20 [18438803.627995] [] ? xen_restore_fl_direct_reloc+0x4/0x4 [18438803.628003] [] ? xen_flush_tlb_single+0xbd/0x210 [18438803.628013] [] ? cpumask_any_but+0x2d/0x40 [18438803.628022] [] ? flush_tlb_page+0x48/0xb0 [18438803.628030] [] ? ptep_set_access_flags+0x6c/0x70 [18438803.628038] [] ? do_wp_page+0x382/0x740 [18438803.628045] [] ? pte_mfn_to_pfn+0x89/0xf0 [18438803.628053] [] ? __raw_callee_save_xen_pmd_val+0x11/0x1e [18438803.628061] [] core_sys_select+0x1c1/0x330 [18438803.628069] [] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1f8/0x350 [18438803.628076] [] ? pvclock_clocksource_read+0x55/0xf0 [18438803.628085] [] ? xen_clocksource_read+0x20/0x30 [18438803.628092] [] ? xen_clocksource_get_cycles+0x9/0x10 [18438803.628101] [] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xe0 [18438803.628108] [] sys_select+0xbb/0x100 [18438803.628117] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [18438803.628123] Code: 89 06 48 8b 47 08 48 89 46 08 48 8b 47 10 48 89 46 10 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 32 eb b2 0f 1f 00 48 89 70 10 eb a9 66 90 55 <48> 8b 17 48 89 e5 48 89 d0 48 83 e0 fc 48 39 c7 74 34 48 8b 47 [18438803.628207] RIP [] rb_next+0x1/0x50 [18438803.628215] RSP [18438803.628219] CR2: 0000000000000010 [18438803.628229] ---[ end trace 6e3e751b67665edf ]---