general protection fault in vsscanf

Status: premoderation: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 03:15
Reported-by: syzbot+0a666fde98d6a4837097@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d19h, last: 1d10h
Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 general protection fault in vsscanf 2 syz, C 16 50m 2d12h 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 10:26
linux-5.15 general protection fault in vsscanf origin:lts-only 2 syz, C 6 1d09h 2d00h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 22:35
linux-6.6 general protection fault in vsscanf 2 syz, C 7 1d12h 1d14h 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/19 08:56
android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf 2 syz, C 5 1d21h 2d00h 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 22:10
upstream general protection fault in vsscanf (2) mm 2 syz, C 11 607d 612d 28/29 fixed on 2025/05/06 15:33
upstream general protection fault in vsscanf v9fs 2 syz, C 7 2933d 2963d 8/29 fixed on 2018/09/03 14:47
android-49 general protection fault in vsscanf 2 syz, C 6 2913d 2685d 0/3 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/14 00:00
linux-6.1 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vsscanf 8 syz, C 9 1d21h 2d07h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 15:35
linux-4.19 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vsscanf (2) 8 2 1771d 1873d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/02/11 22:53
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in vsscanf bluetooth 7 syz 9 1632d 1698d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/27 18:52
linux-4.19 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vsscanf (3) 8 1 1579d 1579d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/22 19:56

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 312 Comm: syz-executor613 Not tainted syzkaller #0 e678fb639bf2314ecbc0d819b692701f82417ebd
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:vsscanf+0x18c/0x24b0 lib/vsprintf.c:3444
Code: 48 c7 c6 b0 b5 e3 87 e8 22 43 e6 fb 41 83 fe 25 74 4d 45 85 f6 0f 84 a4 21 00 00 48 ff c3 48 89 5c 24 58 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 8e 1b 00 00 41 0f b6 1f 45 0f b6 f6 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc900011df5a0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff86364b61 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: ffffffff85a1341e RSI: ffffffff87e3b5b0 RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: ffffc900011df6b0 R08: ffff88812fb02600 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000025 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff86364b60
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055555ba6b3c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000103790000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 sscanf+0xe3/0x150 lib/vsprintf.c:3700
 split_huge_pages_write+0x3c7/0x1220 mm/huge_memory.c:4134
 full_proxy_write+0x125/0x1e0 fs/debugfs/file.c:328
 vfs_write+0x3c1/0xfd0 fs/read_write.c:682
 ksys_write+0x145/0x260 fs/read_write.c:737
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:746 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x7f/0x90 fs/read_write.c:746
 x64_sys_call+0x271c/0x2ee0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x57/0xf0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f75bf330ef9
Code: c0 79 93 eb d5 48 8d 7c 1d 00 eb 99 0f 1f 44 00 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 d8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc39f98468 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000200000000300 RCX: 00007f75bf330ef9
RDX: 000000000000002f RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 000000000000002e
RBP: 0000200000000000 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 00007ffc39f985a8
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0067756265642f2e
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 00007f75bf3c1ca0 R15: 0000000000000002
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:vsscanf+0x18c/0x24b0 lib/vsprintf.c:3444
Code: 48 c7 c6 b0 b5 e3 87 e8 22 43 e6 fb 41 83 fe 25 74 4d 45 85 f6 0f 84 a4 21 00 00 48 ff c3 48 89 5c 24 58 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 8e 1b 00 00 41 0f b6 1f 45 0f b6 f6 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc900011df5a0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff86364b61 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: ffffffff85a1341e RSI: ffffffff87e3b5b0 RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: ffffc900011df6b0 R08: ffff88812fb02600 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000025 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff86364b60
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055555ba6b3c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000103790000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	48 c7 c6 b0 b5 e3 87 	mov    $0xffffffff87e3b5b0,%rsi
   7:	e8 22 43 e6 fb       	call   0xfbe6432e
   c:	41 83 fe 25          	cmp    $0x25,%r14d
  10:	74 4d                	je     0x5f
  12:	45 85 f6             	test   %r14d,%r14d
  15:	0f 84 a4 21 00 00    	je     0x21bf
  1b:	48 ff c3             	inc    %rbx
  1e:	48 89 5c 24 58       	mov    %rbx,0x58(%rsp)
  23:	4c 89 f8             	mov    %r15,%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 8e 1b 00 00    	jne    0x1bc5
  37:	41 0f b6 1f          	movzbl (%r15),%ebx
  3b:	45 0f b6 f6          	movzbl %r14b,%r14d
  3f:	44                   	rex.R

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/18 05:28 android16-6.12 83f7e9ec53bb 1e72964b .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/18 04:45 android16-6.12 83f7e9ec53bb 1e72964b .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/18 04:04 android16-6.12 83f7e9ec53bb 1e72964b .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/19 12:04 android16-6.12 10918b51c409 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/19 01:18 android16-6.12 8dc5b20ad3ea 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/19 01:17 android16-6.12 8dc5b20ad3ea 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/19 01:16 android16-6.12 8dc5b20ad3ea 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/18 21:51 android16-6.12 8dc5b20ad3ea 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/18 03:14 android16-6.12 83f7e9ec53bb 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in vsscanf
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.