Kernel Panic is observed with a Qlogic 2472 Card is plugged into the
system and the qla2xxx driver is loaded:

QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.01.02.11.0-k9
vendor=8086 device=3410
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 40 (level, low) -> IRQ 40
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: Found an ISP2432, irq 40, iobase
0xffffc2001091c000
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: Configuring PCI space...
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
qla2xxx 0000:05:00.0: Configure NVRAM parameters...
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000000
IP: [<ffffffff8036319a>] strncpy+0x5/0x1e
PGD 7c564067 PUD 78d8c067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.1/input/input4/event
4/dev
CPU 1
Modules linked in: qla2xxx(+) squashfs usb_storage scsi_transport_fc
scsi_tgt parport_pc parport arc4 ecb crypto_blkcipher acpi_cpufreq fan
loop nfs nfs_acl lockd sunrpc nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 ipv6 af_packet st
sr_mod i...