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general protection fault in kauditd_hold_skb

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/07/06 14:28
Reported-by: syzbot+40aa5dc199f6f21d848f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 14d, last: 14d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in kauditd_hold_skb audit 10 syz 5 801d 802d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/18 17:43

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: 0 UID: 0 PID: 36 Comm: kauditd Not tainted syzkaller #0 c9311b6cb369b61e24bd82353f907fc301b53255
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:printk_parse_prefix kernel/printk/printk.c:2202 [inline]
RIP: 0010:printk_sprint+0x102/0x3e0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2243
Code: 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 31 ff 44 89 fe e8 b4 d9 1e 00 45 85 ff 74 0a e8 6a d5 1e 00 e9 9f 01 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 30 84 c0 0f 85 cf 01 00 00 44 0f b6 3b bf 01 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000025f880 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88810367cc00 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000025f8b0 R08: ffffffff862f6040 R09: ffffc9000025fc40
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200004bef5 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffff862f6040 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fca2475de10 CR3: 0000000120dec000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 vprintk_store+0x724/0x10c0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2347
 vprintk_emit+0x20f/0x650 kernel/printk/printk.c:2438
 vprintk_default+0x2a/0x40 kernel/printk/printk.c:2477
 vprintk+0x93/0xa0 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:75
 _printk+0xde/0x140 kernel/printk/printk.c:2487
 kauditd_printk_skb kernel/audit.c:546 [inline]
 kauditd_hold_skb+0x1cc/0x230 kernel/audit.c:581
 kauditd_send_queue+0x2c8/0x320 kernel/audit.c:766
 kauditd_thread+0x4ea/0x750 kernel/audit.c:890
 kthread+0x2c7/0x360 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x67/0xa0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:printk_parse_prefix kernel/printk/printk.c:2202 [inline]
RIP: 0010:printk_sprint+0x102/0x3e0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2243
Code: 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 31 ff 44 89 fe e8 b4 d9 1e 00 45 85 ff 74 0a e8 6a d5 1e 00 e9 9f 01 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 30 84 c0 0f 85 cf 01 00 00 44 0f b6 3b bf 01 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000025f880 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88810367cc00 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000025f8b0 R08: ffffffff862f6040 R09: ffffc9000025fc40
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200004bef5 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffff862f6040 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fca2475de10 CR3: 0000000120dec000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	49 be 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%r14
   7:	fc ff df
   a:	31 ff                	xor    %edi,%edi
   c:	44 89 fe             	mov    %r15d,%esi
   f:	e8 b4 d9 1e 00       	call   0x1ed9c8
  14:	45 85 ff             	test   %r15d,%r15d
  17:	74 0a                	je     0x23
  19:	e8 6a d5 1e 00       	call   0x1ed588
  1e:	e9 9f 01 00 00       	jmp    0x1c2
  23:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 0f b6 04 30       	movzbl (%rax,%r14,1),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  31:	0f 85 cf 01 00 00    	jne    0x206
  37:	44 0f b6 3b          	movzbl (%rbx),%r15d
  3b:	bf 01 00 00 00       	mov    $0x1,%edi

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/06 14:27 android16-6.12 87f47a1fd4cf 88b240e4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in kauditd_hold_skb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.