Bug report: 455.23.04 - Kernel Panic due to NULL pointer dereference

Been having this issue for a couple months now as well, intermittently, and just found this thread. Happens once in a blue moon, and always when using Google Chrome (I believe always when changing a tab). Like others, I had to hard reset to get the system working again.

R7 3700X w/ Asrock x570 taichi
ArchLinux
NVIDIA driver 455.38
GTX 1080
Linux version 5.9.8-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:44:11 +0000

Here’s my latest:

kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
kernel: #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
kernel: PGD 3f361a067 P4D 3f361a067 PUD 0
kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 743 Comm: irq/99-nvidia Tainted: P           OE     5.9.8-arch1-1 #1
kernel: Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./X570 Taichi, BIOS P2.10 09/09/2019
kernel: RIP: 0010:_nv027510rm+0x9/0x90 [nvidia]
kernel: Code: 90 ff e8 ea b0 00 00 31 c0 48 83 c4 08 c3 31 c0 eb bf 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 08 48 85 ff 74 57 <48> 8b 17 31 c0 48 85 d2 75 0e eb 2b 0f 1f 00 48 8b 52 10 48 85 d2
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb5fa416a3be0 EFLAGS: 00010202
kernel: RAX: 0000000000000020 RBX: 0000000000000020 RCX: 0000000000000010
kernel: RDX: ffff913dd126b8c8 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: 0000000000000020
kernel: RBP: ffff9140ab3ca940 R08: ffffffffc3638490 R09: ffff9140ab3ca920
kernel: R10: ffffffffc2306230 R11: ffff9140b5ea8008 R12: 0000000000000020
kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff9140ab3caaa8 R15: ffff9140ab3cabb0
kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9140cea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
kernel: CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000030a188000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:  ? _nv029921rm+0x1b/0x90 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv025455rm+0x18/0x60 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv011677rm+0x13d/0x1c0 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv000083rm+0x12f/0x1a0 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv011605rm+0xff/0x180 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv018432rm+0x1af/0x210 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv018372rm+0xd9a/0xe90 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv018373rm+0xde/0x260 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv018339rm+0x72/0xc0 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv018353rm+0x235/0x2d0 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv026057rm+0x10/0x10 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv018386rm+0xac/0xe0 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv027717rm+0x820/0xdc0 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv007563rm+0x155/0x270 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv027725rm+0x8d/0x180 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? _nv000712rm+0xa9/0x200 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? disable_irq_nosync+0x10/0x10
kernel:  ? rm_isr_bh+0x1c/0x60 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? nvidia_isr_kthread_bh+0x1b/0x40 [nvidia]
kernel:  ? irq_thread_fn+0x20/0x60
kernel:  ? irq_thread+0xf5/0x1a0
kernel:  ? irq_finalize_oneshot.part.0+0xe0/0xe0
kernel:  ? irq_thread_check_affinity+0xd0/0xd0
kernel:  ? kthread+0x142/0x160
kernel:  ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
kernel:  ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
kernel: Modules linked in: rfcomm fuse uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 snd_usb_audio videobuf2_common videodev snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi nvidia_drm(POE) snd_seq_device mc nvidia_modeset(POE) cma>
kernel:  pinctrl_amd acpi_cpufreq vboxnetflt(OE) vboxnetadp(OE) drm vboxdrv(OE) crypto_user agpgart ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 crc32c_intel xhci_pci xhci_pci_renesas xhci_hcd
kernel: CR2: 0000000000000020
kernel: ---[ end trace e1fd299d7b82857d ]---
kernel: RIP: 0010:_nv027510rm+0x9/0x90 [nvidia]
kernel: Code: 90 ff e8 ea b0 00 00 31 c0 48 83 c4 08 c3 31 c0 eb bf 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 08 48 85 ff 74 57 <48> 8b 17 31 c0 48 85 d2 75 0e eb 2b 0f 1f 00 48 8b 52 10 48 85 d2
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb5fa416a3be0 EFLAGS: 00010202
kernel: RAX: 0000000000000020 RBX: 0000000000000020 RCX: 0000000000000010
kernel: RDX: ffff913dd126b8c8 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: 0000000000000020
kernel: RBP: ffff9140ab3ca940 R08: ffffffffc3638490 R09: ffff9140ab3ca920
kernel: R10: ffffffffc2306230 R11: ffff9140b5ea8008 R12: 0000000000000020
kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff9140ab3caaa8 R15: ffff9140ab3cabb0
kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9140cea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
kernel: CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000030a188000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000930
kernel: #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
kernel: PGD 3f361a067 P4D 3f361a067 PUD 0
kernel: Oops: 0002 [#2] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 743 Comm: irq/99-nvidia Tainted: P      D    OE     5.9.8-arch1-1 #1
kernel: Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./X570 Taichi, BIOS P2.10 09/09/2019
kernel: RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x10/0x20
kernel: Code: 03 31 c0 c3 eb d4 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 be 02 00 00 00 e9 61 fa ff ff 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 65 48 8b 14 25 c0 7b 01 00 <f0> 48 0f b1 17 75 01 c3 eb d6 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 41
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb5fa416a3e30 EFLAGS: 00010246
kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
kernel: RDX: ffff9140acd99e80 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000930
kernel: RBP: 0000000000000930 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
kernel: R10: ffff9140c2fbf800 R11: ffffb5fa416a3800 R12: ffff9140acd9a64c
kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff9140acd99e80
kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9140cea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
kernel: CR2: 0000000000000930 CR3: 000000030a188000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:  perf_event_exit_task+0x30/0x440
kernel:  ? kfree+0x40f/0x440
kernel:  do_exit+0x379/0xa90
kernel:  ? task_work_run+0x5c/0x90
kernel:  ? do_exit+0x369/0xa90
kernel:  ? kthread+0x142/0x160
kernel:  ? rewind_stack_do_exit+0x17/0x17
kernel: Modules linked in: rfcomm fuse uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 snd_usb_audio videobuf2_common videodev snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi nvidia_drm(POE) snd_seq_device mc nvidia_modeset(POE) cma>
kernel:  pinctrl_amd acpi_cpufreq vboxnetflt(OE) vboxnetadp(OE) drm vboxdrv(OE) crypto_user agpgart ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 crc32c_intel xhci_pci xhci_pci_renesas xhci_hcd
kernel: CR2: 0000000000000930
kernel: ---[ end trace e1fd299d7b82857e ]---
kernel: RIP: 0010:_nv027510rm+0x9/0x90 [nvidia]
kernel: Code: 90 ff e8 ea b0 00 00 31 c0 48 83 c4 08 c3 31 c0 eb bf 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 08 48 85 ff 74 57 <48> 8b 17 31 c0 48 85 d2 75 0e eb 2b 0f 1f 00 48 8b 52 10 48 85 d2
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb5fa416a3be0 EFLAGS: 00010202
kernel: RAX: 0000000000000020 RBX: 0000000000000020 RCX: 0000000000000010
kernel: RDX: ffff913dd126b8c8 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: 0000000000000020
kernel: RBP: ffff9140ab3ca940 R08: ffffffffc3638490 R09: ffff9140ab3ca920
kernel: R10: ffffffffc2306230 R11: ffff9140b5ea8008 R12: 0000000000000020
kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff9140ab3caaa8 R15: ffff9140ab3cabb0
kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9140cea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
kernel: CR2: 0000000000000930 CR3: 000000030a188000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
kernel: Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!