BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050 PGD 800000016e86f067 P4D 800000016e86f067 PUD 17275a067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 6 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 4.17.0-rc5+ #98 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn RIP: 0010:dev_name include/linux/device.h:1008 [inline] RIP: 0010:wb_workfn+0x174/0x1f80 fs/fs-writeback.c:1937 RSP: 0018:ffff8801d8d1fb38 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff8801757d9f50 RBX: 0000000000000050 RCX: ffff880000000000 RDX: ffff880199499f50 RSI: aaaaaaaaaaaab000 RDI: ffffea0000000000 RBP: ffff8801d8d1fc78 R08: 0000000001080020 R09: 0000000000000002 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff88016ce86d90 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000050 CR3: 000000016de26000 CR4: 00000000001406f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600 Call Trace: process_one_work+0x12c6/0x1f60 kernel/workqueue.c:2145 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2205 [inline] worker_thread+0x1986/0x24f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2284 kthread+0x4e3/0x6d0 kernel/kthread.c:241 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:412 Code: 83 38 00 75 5c 4c 89 65 a0 4c 89 75 b0 4c 8b 3b 48 89 df e8 bf 35 e1 ff 4c 8b 30 44 8b 22 49 8d 5f 50 4d 85 f6 75 43 44 89 65 c8 <4c> 8b 2b 48 89 df e8 a1 35 e1 ff 4c 8b 20 8b 1a 4d 85 e4 74 0b RIP: dev_name include/linux/device.h:1008 [inline] RSP: ffff8801d8d1fb38 RIP: wb_workfn+0x174/0x1f80 fs/fs-writeback.c:1937 RSP: ffff8801d8d1fb38 CR2: 0000000000000050 ---[ end trace e0cad63f715d07cf ]---