syzbot

map[ReproOpts: ReproSyz:syz_mount_image$hfsplus(&(0x7f0000000000)='hfsplus\x00', &(0x7f0000000100)='./file0\x00', 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
mknodat(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000200)='./file0/file0\x00', 0x0, 0x0)
 SyzkallerCommit:31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0]

map[DescriptionFiles:[acpi_thermal_rel.txt aio.txt auto.txt binfmt.txt bpf.txt bpf_prog.txt bpf_trace.txt cgroup.txt damon.txt dev_ashmem.txt dev_bifrost.txt dev_binder.txt dev_binderfs.txt dev_block.txt dev_bsg.txt dev_bus_usb.txt dev_camx.txt dev_cdrom.txt dev_cec.txt dev_char_usb.txt dev_comedi.txt dev_dma_heap.txt dev_dri.txt dev_dsp.txt dev_dvb_demux.txt dev_dvb_dvr.txt dev_dvb_frontend.txt dev_fb.txt dev_floppy.txt dev_hidraw.txt dev_i2c.txt dev_i915.txt dev_img_rogue.txt dev_infiniband_rdma.txt dev_infiniband_rdma_cm.txt dev_input.txt dev_iommu.txt dev_kvm.txt dev_kvm_amd64.txt dev_kvm_arm64.txt dev_kvm_extra.txt dev_kvm_riscv64.txt dev_loop.txt dev_mali.txt dev_media.txt dev_msm.txt dev_msr.txt dev_nbd.txt dev_net_tun.txt dev_panthor.txt dev_ppp.txt dev_ptmx.txt dev_ptp.txt dev_qat_adf_ctl.txt dev_qrtr_tun.txt dev_random.txt dev_rfkill.txt dev_rtc.txt dev_sequencer.txt dev_sg.txt dev_snapshot.txt dev_snd_control.txt dev_snd_hw.txt dev_snd_midi.txt dev_snd_pcm.txt dev_snd_seq.txt dev_snd_timer.txt dev_sr.txt dev_sw_sync.txt dev_tlk_device.txt dev_trusty.txt dev_udmabuf.txt dev_uhid.txt dev_uinput.txt dev_usb_hiddev.txt dev_usbmon.txt dev_userio.txt dev_vfio.txt dev_vga_arbiter.txt dev_vhci.txt dev_video4linux.txt dev_video4linux_vim2m.txt dev_virtual_nci.txt dev_vtpm.txt fanotify.txt filesystem.txt fs_9p.txt fs_fuse.txt fs_incfs.txt fs_ioctl.txt fs_ioctl_autofs.txt fs_ioctl_btrfs.txt fs_ioctl_ext4.txt fs_ioctl_f2fs.txt fs_ioctl_fat.txt fs_ioctl_fscrypt.txt fs_ioctl_fsverity.txt fs_ioctl_xfs.txt futex.txt hafnium.txt inotify.txt io_uring.txt ipc.txt key.txt kfuzztest.txt l2cap.txt landlock.txt lsm.txt namespaces.txt net_80211.txt netfilter.txt netfilter_arp.txt netfilter_bridge.txt netfilter_ipv4.txt netfilter_ipv6.txt netfilter_ipvs.txt netfilter_targets.txt pagemap_ioctl.txt perf.txt prctl.txt quotactl.txt seccomp.txt security_apparmor.txt security_selinux.txt security_smack.txt socket.txt socket_alg.txt socket_ax25.txt socket_bluetooth.txt socket_caif.txt socket_can.txt socket_ieee802154.txt socket_inet.txt socket_inet6.txt socket_inet_dccp.txt socket_inet_icmp.txt socket_inet_igmp.txt socket_inet_l2tp.txt socket_inet_sctp.txt socket_inet_tcp.txt socket_inet_udp.txt socket_ip_tunnel.txt socket_isdn.txt socket_kcm.txt socket_key.txt socket_llc.txt socket_netlink.txt socket_netlink_audit.txt socket_netlink_crypto.txt socket_netlink_generic.txt socket_netlink_generic_80211.txt socket_netlink_generic_batadv.txt socket_netlink_generic_devlink.txt socket_netlink_generic_ethtool.txt socket_netlink_generic_fou.txt socket_netlink_generic_gtp.txt socket_netlink_generic_mptcp.txt socket_netlink_generic_net_dm.txt socket_netlink_generic_netlabel.txt socket_netlink_generic_nfc.txt socket_netlink_generic_seg6.txt socket_netlink_generic_smc.txt socket_netlink_generic_team.txt socket_netlink_generic_wireguard.txt socket_netlink_netfilter.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_acct.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_conntrack.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_conntrack_exp.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_conntrack_helper.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_ipset.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_log.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_nft_compat.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_nftables.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_osf.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_queue.txt socket_netlink_netfilter_timeout.txt socket_netlink_rdma.txt socket_netlink_route.txt socket_netlink_route_sched.txt socket_netlink_route_sched_retired.txt socket_netlink_sock_diag.txt socket_netlink_xfrm.txt socket_netrom.txt socket_nfc.txt socket_nvme_of_tcp.txt socket_packet.txt socket_phonet.txt socket_pppox.txt socket_qipcrtr.txt socket_rds.txt socket_rose.txt socket_rxrpc.txt socket_tipc.txt socket_tipc_netlink.txt socket_unix.txt socket_vnet.txt socket_x25.txt socket_xdp.txt sys.txt uffd.txt usbip.txt vmw_vmci.txt vnet.txt vnet_mptcp.txt vusb.txt watch_queue.txt xattr.txt] SyzkallerCommit:31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0]

map[KernelSrc:/usr/local/google/home/dvyukov/syzkaller/agent/workdir/cache/src/52d5b556e0818c1fa1e9e0ef8e0fa1ffbbead1f7]

map[KernelObj:/usr/local/google/home/dvyukov/syzkaller/agent/workdir/cache/build/1a0b3a775360b9f55f5d25c45a36903139b94e6f]

gemini-3-pro-preview

map[ReproOpts:]

You are an expert in linux kernel fuzzing. Your goal is to write a syzkaller program to trigger a specific bug.
Print only the syz program that could be executed directly, without backticks.




Use set-results tool to provide results of the analysis.
It must be called exactly once before the final reply.
Ignore results of this tool.

Bug Title: general protection fault in __hfsplus_brec_find

Original Crash Report:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 1024
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5337 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__hfsplus_brec_find+0xad/0x480 fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:113
Code: 74 24 28 4d 85 f6 0f 84 db 03 00 00 66 c7 44 24 60 00 00 c7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4d 8d 74 24 18 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 d6 02 00 00 48 89 5c 24 30 41 0f b7 06
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000dba76e0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 1ffff92001b74ee4 RCX: ffff888035fb24c0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc9000dba79e0 RDI: fffffffffffffffb
RBP: ffffc9000dba77d0 R08: 0000030000000600 R09: 0000030000000600
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100822cc01 R12: fffffffffffffffb
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000013 R15: ffffc9000dba79e0
FS:  00007fe9a62126c0(0000) GS:ffff88808d414000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fffbfa97fc0 CR3: 0000000041be5000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 hfsplus_brec_insert+0x8c6/0xd70 fs/hfsplus/brec.c:160
 hfsplus_create_cat+0x9a9/0x10d0 fs/hfsplus/catalog.c:308
 hfsplus_mknod+0x16a/0x290 fs/hfsplus/dir.c:494
 vfs_create+0x3aa/0x400 fs/namei.c:4132
 do_mknodat+0x3ea/0x610 fs/namei.c:5039
 __do_sys_mknod fs/namei.c:5076 [inline]
 __se_sys_mknod fs/namei.c:5074 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mknod+0x8c/0xa0 fs/namei.c:5074
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe9a538f7c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fe9a6212038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000085
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe9a55e5fa0 RCX: 00007fe9a538f7c9
RDX: 0000000000000701 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007fe9a5413f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe9a55e6038 R14: 00007fe9a55e5fa0 R15: 00007fffbfa98798
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__hfsplus_brec_find+0xad/0x480 fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:113
Code: 74 24 28 4d 85 f6 0f 84 db 03 00 00 66 c7 44 24 60 00 00 c7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4d 8d 74 24 18 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 d6 02 00 00 48 89 5c 24 30 41 0f b7 06
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000dba76e0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 1ffff92001b74ee4 RCX: ffff888035fb24c0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc9000dba79e0 RDI: fffffffffffffffb
RBP: ffffc9000dba77d0 R08: 0000030000000600 R09: 0000030000000600
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100822cc01 R12: fffffffffffffffb
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000013 R15: ffffc9000dba79e0
FS:  00007fe9a62126c0(0000) GS:ffff88808d414000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fffbfa97fc0 CR3: 0000000041be5000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	74 24                	je     0x26
   2:	28 4d 85             	sub    %cl,-0x7b(%rbp)
   5:	f6 0f 84             	testb  $0x84,(%rdi)
   8:	db 03                	fildl  (%rbx)
   a:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   c:	66 c7 44 24 60 00 00 	movw   $0x0,0x60(%rsp)
  13:	c7 84 24 80 00 00 00 	movl   $0x0,0x80(%rsp)
  1a:	00 00 00 00
  1e:	4d 8d 74 24 18       	lea    0x18(%r12),%r14
  23:	4c 89 f0             	mov    %r14,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 0f b6 04 28       	movzbl (%rax,%r13,1),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  31:	0f 85 d6 02 00 00    	jne    0x30d
  37:	48 89 5c 24 30       	mov    %rbx,0x30(%rsp)
  3c:	41 0f b7 06          	movzwl (%r14),%eax


The list of existing description files:
acpi_thermal_rel.txt
aio.txt
auto.txt
binfmt.txt
bpf.txt
bpf_prog.txt
bpf_trace.txt
cgroup.txt
damon.txt
dev_ashmem.txt
dev_bifrost.txt
dev_binder.txt
dev_binderfs.txt
dev_block.txt
dev_bsg.txt
dev_bus_usb.txt
dev_camx.txt
dev_cdrom.txt
dev_cec.txt
dev_char_usb.txt
dev_comedi.txt
dev_dma_heap.txt
dev_dri.txt
dev_dsp.txt
dev_dvb_demux.txt
dev_dvb_dvr.txt
dev_dvb_frontend.txt
dev_fb.txt
dev_floppy.txt
dev_hidraw.txt
dev_i2c.txt
dev_i915.txt
dev_img_rogue.txt
dev_infiniband_rdma.txt
dev_infiniband_rdma_cm.txt
dev_input.txt
dev_iommu.txt
dev_kvm.txt
dev_kvm_amd64.txt
dev_kvm_arm64.txt
dev_kvm_extra.txt
dev_kvm_riscv64.txt
dev_loop.txt
dev_mali.txt
dev_media.txt
dev_msm.txt
dev_msr.txt
dev_nbd.txt
dev_net_tun.txt
dev_panthor.txt
dev_ppp.txt
dev_ptmx.txt
dev_ptp.txt
dev_qat_adf_ctl.txt
dev_qrtr_tun.txt
dev_random.txt
dev_rfkill.txt
dev_rtc.txt
dev_sequencer.txt
dev_sg.txt
dev_snapshot.txt
dev_snd_control.txt
dev_snd_hw.txt
dev_snd_midi.txt
dev_snd_pcm.txt
dev_snd_seq.txt
dev_snd_timer.txt
dev_sr.txt
dev_sw_sync.txt
dev_tlk_device.txt
dev_trusty.txt
dev_udmabuf.txt
dev_uhid.txt
dev_uinput.txt
dev_usb_hiddev.txt
dev_usbmon.txt
dev_userio.txt
dev_vfio.txt
dev_vga_arbiter.txt
dev_vhci.txt
dev_video4linux.txt
dev_video4linux_vim2m.txt
dev_virtual_nci.txt
dev_vtpm.txt
fanotify.txt
filesystem.txt
fs_9p.txt
fs_fuse.txt
fs_incfs.txt
fs_ioctl.txt
fs_ioctl_autofs.txt
fs_ioctl_btrfs.txt
fs_ioctl_ext4.txt
fs_ioctl_f2fs.txt
fs_ioctl_fat.txt
fs_ioctl_fscrypt.txt
fs_ioctl_fsverity.txt
fs_ioctl_xfs.txt
futex.txt
hafnium.txt
inotify.txt
io_uring.txt
ipc.txt
key.txt
kfuzztest.txt
l2cap.txt
landlock.txt
lsm.txt
namespaces.txt
net_80211.txt
netfilter.txt
netfilter_arp.txt
netfilter_bridge.txt
netfilter_ipv4.txt
netfilter_ipv6.txt
netfilter_ipvs.txt
netfilter_targets.txt
pagemap_ioctl.txt
perf.txt
prctl.txt
quotactl.txt
seccomp.txt
security_apparmor.txt
security_selinux.txt
security_smack.txt
socket.txt
socket_alg.txt
socket_ax25.txt
socket_bluetooth.txt
socket_caif.txt
socket_can.txt
socket_ieee802154.txt
socket_inet.txt
socket_inet6.txt
socket_inet_dccp.txt
socket_inet_icmp.txt
socket_inet_igmp.txt
socket_inet_l2tp.txt
socket_inet_sctp.txt
socket_inet_tcp.txt
socket_inet_udp.txt
socket_ip_tunnel.txt
socket_isdn.txt
socket_kcm.txt
socket_key.txt
socket_llc.txt
socket_netlink.txt
socket_netlink_audit.txt
socket_netlink_crypto.txt
socket_netlink_generic.txt
socket_netlink_generic_80211.txt
socket_netlink_generic_batadv.txt
socket_netlink_generic_devlink.txt
socket_netlink_generic_ethtool.txt
socket_netlink_generic_fou.txt
socket_netlink_generic_gtp.txt
socket_netlink_generic_mptcp.txt
socket_netlink_generic_net_dm.txt
socket_netlink_generic_netlabel.txt
socket_netlink_generic_nfc.txt
socket_netlink_generic_seg6.txt
socket_netlink_generic_smc.txt
socket_netlink_generic_team.txt
socket_netlink_generic_wireguard.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_acct.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_conntrack.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_conntrack_exp.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_conntrack_helper.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_ipset.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_log.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_nft_compat.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_nftables.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_osf.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_queue.txt
socket_netlink_netfilter_timeout.txt
socket_netlink_rdma.txt
socket_netlink_route.txt
socket_netlink_route_sched.txt
socket_netlink_route_sched_retired.txt
socket_netlink_sock_diag.txt
socket_netlink_xfrm.txt
socket_netrom.txt
socket_nfc.txt
socket_nvme_of_tcp.txt
socket_packet.txt
socket_phonet.txt
socket_pppox.txt
socket_qipcrtr.txt
socket_rds.txt
socket_rose.txt
socket_rxrpc.txt
socket_tipc.txt
socket_tipc_netlink.txt
socket_unix.txt
socket_vnet.txt
socket_x25.txt
socket_xdp.txt
sys.txt
uffd.txt
usbip.txt
vmw_vmci.txt
vnet.txt
vnet_mptcp.txt
vusb.txt
watch_queue.txt
xattr.txt

syz_mount_image$hfsplus(&(0x7f0000000000)='hfsplus\x00', &(0x7f0000000100)='./file0\x00', 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
mknodat(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000200)='./file0/file0\x00', 0x0, 0x0)

gemini-3-pro-preview

							input: 4797
							output: 17
							thoughts: 17157
						

**Analysis of a syzkaller Program to Trigger an HFS+ General Protection Fault**

Okay, so the goal is to craft a syzkaller program that makes the kernel crash with a "general protection fault" inside `__hfsplus_brec_find`. The crash report points directly to `fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:113`, which means we're dealing with a specific issue within the HFS+ filesystem implementation. The call trace shows `mknod` is at the core of this, with a path going: `hfsplus_brec_insert` -> `hfsplus_create_cat` -> `hfsplus_mknod` -> `vfs_create` -> `do_mknodat` -> `__x64_sys_mknod`. This tells me that creating a file (`mknod`) is the action that triggers the flaw in the HFS+ code.

The fault itself seems like a classic KASAN null-pointer dereference or a general protection fault triggered by bad pointer manipulation. The crash address `0xdffffc0000000002` looks like a KASAN shadow address that reflects an invalid pointer value.  The disassembled code highlights the problem: we're trying to read a byte from a memory address calculated from `r12`. Now, `r12` is `0xfffffffffffffffb`, or -5. The KASAN check suggests the calculation went wrong; `-5` is being interpreted as a pointer, but it’s actually an error code (`-EIO` or something similar).

`hfs_bnode_find` is the likely culprit.  This function, inside `fs/hfsplus/bnode.c`, is designed to locate a specific B-tree node. If it fails, it usually returns an `ERR_PTR` (a pointer representation of an error). The crash occurs because the code isn't checking `IS_ERR()` to see if `hfs_bnode_find`'s return value is a valid pointer or an error, and it's attempting to dereference the result, which is `ERR_PTR(-EIO)` represented by -5, hence crashing KASAN.

The trace suggests this happens during B-tree insertion, specifically within `hfsplus_brec_insert`, which in turn calls `hfs_brec_find` to find the correct spot for a new catalog entry. The code flow is critical: `hfs_brec_find` should call `hfs_bnode_find`, check if the result is an error using `IS_ERR`, and *then* handle the error (which usually means returning it). The vulnerability is if that check is missing, or if it is performed, but then the error is ignored, and the invalid pointer used. I've looked at the source of `fs/hfsplus/bfind.c` and it *should* have a check, which makes me suspect a more subtle issue: perhaps inlining of the function, or a race condition, or perhaps there are cases where the check is missed due to a code path, likely when there is a node split operation.

This all leads me to believe that a corrupted HFS+ image is the key. Specifically, the catalog B-tree must be damaged somehow so that `hfs_bnode_find` returns this -EIO. When `mknod` tries to create an entry, the damaged B-tree lookup causes the error to be returned, and if it's not handled, we get a crash. I'm going to construct a syzkaller program that mounts an HFS+ filesystem and then tries to create a file (`mknod`), with the expectation that syzkaller’s fuzzing will find a way to corrupt the filesystem such that this -EIO return value is not handled. The program is pretty straightforward:

```
syz_mount_image$hfsplus(&(0x7f0000000000)='hfsplus\x00', &(0x7f0000000100)='./file0\x00', 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
mknodat(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000200)='./file0/file0\x00', 0x0, 0x0)
```

The success depends on the image being corrupted, but this should be enough to trigger it with some fuzzing.

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gemini-3-pro-preview

							input: 22986
							output: 135
							thoughts: 0