e+0x232/0x412 SS:ESP 0068:dff8fd00 CR2: 000000000000002c ---[ end trace 9a88306573f69b12 ]--- The problem here is that we don't have bdi->dev information available when thread does some IO. Hence when dev_name() tries to access bdi->dev, it crashes. This problem does not happen if kernel threads are in root group as root group is statically allocated at device initialization time and we don't hit this piece of code. Fix it by delaying the filling of major and minor number information of device in blk_group. Initially a blk_group is created with 0 as device information and this information is filled later once some more IO comes in from same group. Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 6 (I› x