BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/21 08:03
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+2ec7fc1793a63864d9d6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d12h, last: 4d07h
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c12d0775 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit 2026/08/18 00:00 2026/08/18 00:00 2026/08/18 00:08 1e72964b
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Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] usb: gadget: net2280: fix NULL pointer deref in usb_reinit_338x() 3 (3) 2026/08/21 15:07
[syzbot] [usb?] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit 0 (2) 2026/08/21 11:23
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/21 11:23 14m kartikey406@gmail.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report job log log

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p2): shut down requested (2)
Aborting journal on device nvme0n1p2-8.
Unable to handle kernel NULL poin
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000048
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000006
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000001166e6000
[0000000000000048] pgd=080000011da38403, p4d=080000011da38403, pud=080000011da3a403, pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 4939 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/07/2026
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __raw_readl arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h:84 [inline]
pc : readl include/asm-generic/io.h:231 [inline]
pc : usb_reinit_338x drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c:2243 [inline]
pc : usb_reinit+0xbf4/0xfa0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c:2305
lr : usb_reinit_338x drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c:2236 [inline]
lr : usb_reinit+0xb6c/0xfa0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c:2305
sp : ffff800096ac75a0
x29: ffff800096ac75e0 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff800087354e38
x26: ffff800087354e80 x25: 0000000000000060 x24: 1fffe0001a4fd183
x23: ffff0000d27e8c18 x22: 1fffe0001a4fd00b x21: 0000000000000011
x20: ffff0000d27e8058 x19: ffff0000d27e8000 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: ffff80008a7d6000 x16: 0000000000000004 x15: ffff80008a35fda0
x14: ffff80008a5d5e28 x13: 0000000000000001 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 1fffe0001a4fd178 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000048 x7 : ffff800080aa1cb8 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : ffff8000835bf6bc
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000cd3d1d40 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 __raw_readl arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h:84 [inline] (P)
 readl include/asm-generic/io.h:231 [inline] (P)
 usb_reinit_338x drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c:2243 [inline] (P)
 usb_reinit+0xbf4/0xfa0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c:2305 (P)
 net2280_probe+0x5f4/0xef0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c:3712
 local_pci_probe+0xc8/0x158 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:332
 pci_call_probe drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:394 [inline]
 __pci_device_probe drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:455 [inline]
 pci_device_probe+0x460/0x8d4 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:489
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x29c/0x800 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e0/0x350 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 device_driver_attach+0x58/0xac drivers/base/dd.c:1203
 bind_store+0xf4/0x14c drivers/base/bus.c:267
 drv_attr_store+0x80/0xa4 drivers/base/bus.c:125
 sysfs_kf_write+0xe0/0x108 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x260/0x3b8 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x51c/0xa0c fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12c/0x228 fs/read_write.c:739
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:750 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:747 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_write+0x84/0x98 fs/read_write.c:747
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x244 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0xec/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:121
 do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x5c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 el0_svc+0x64/0x260 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:758
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x44/0x104 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:777
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:590
Code: 9757676c f94002e8 91012108 d503201f (b9400115) 
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	9757676c 	bl	0xfffffffffd5d9db0
   4:	f94002e8 	ldr	x8, [x23]
   8:	91012108 	add	x8, x8, #0x48
   c:	d503201f 	nop
* 10:	b9400115 	ldr	w21, [x8] <-- trapping instruction

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/17 09:19 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 08:40 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 12:08 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 12:07 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 11:54 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 11:53 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 10:14 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 10:13 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 07:59 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
2026/08/17 07:57 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in usb_reinit
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.