general protection fault in br_del_frame

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/25 05:29
Reported-by: syzbot+50bea8aafbd998152d09@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 55d, last: 11d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 general protection fault in br_del_frame 2 4 4d17h 18d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/10/01 15:03
linux-6.1 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in br_del_frame origin:lts-only 8 syz 17 3d14h 68d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/12 17:14
upstream general protection fault in br_del_frame prio:normal bridge 8 syz, C 481 27d 45d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/04 00:40

Sample crash report:
bridge_slave_1: left promiscuous mode
bridge0: port 2(bridge_slave_1) entered disabled state
bridge_slave_0: left allmulticast mode
bridge_slave_0: left promiscuous mode
bridge0: port 1(bridge_slave_0) entered disabled state
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xfbd59c0000000024: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000120-0xdead000000000127]
CPU: 0 PID: 9440 Comm: kworker/u4:20 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
RIP: 0010:__hlist_del include/linux/list.h:987 [inline]
RIP: 0010:hlist_del_rcu include/linux/rculist.h:542 [inline]
RIP: 0010:br_del_frame+0xd1/0x150 net/bridge/br_input.c:463
Code: f8 4c 8b 73 10 48 83 c3 18 49 89 dd 49 c1 ed 03 43 80 7c 25 00 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 69 6d 74 f8 4c 8b 3b 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 f0 6d 74 f8 4d 89 37 4d 85 f6 74
RSP: 0018:ffffc900031f7870 EFLAGS: 00010a06
RAX: 1bd5a00000000024 RBX: ffffffff8f6e4080 RCX: ffff88807aa43c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8f6e4068 RDI: ffffffff8f6e4078
RBP: 000000000000001d R08: ffffffff91ff150f R09: 1ffffffff23fe2a1
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff23fe2a2 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffffffff1edc810 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dead000000000122
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fd8cd427dac CR3: 0000000054f53000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 br_cfm_port_del+0x116/0x1b0 net/bridge/br_cfm.c:872
 del_nbp+0x167/0x9e0 net/bridge/br_if.c:347
 br_dev_delete+0x6e/0x130 net/bridge/br_if.c:386
 default_device_exit_batch+0x8c0/0xa00 net/core/dev.c:11797
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:178 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x785/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:656
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__hlist_del include/linux/list.h:987 [inline]
RIP: 0010:hlist_del_rcu include/linux/rculist.h:542 [inline]
RIP: 0010:br_del_frame+0xd1/0x150 net/bridge/br_input.c:463
Code: f8 4c 8b 73 10 48 83 c3 18 49 89 dd 49 c1 ed 03 43 80 7c 25 00 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 69 6d 74 f8 4c 8b 3b 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 f0 6d 74 f8 4d 89 37 4d 85 f6 74
RSP: 0018:ffffc900031f7870 EFLAGS: 00010a06
RAX: 1bd5a00000000024 RBX: ffffffff8f6e4080 RCX: ffff88807aa43c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8f6e4068 RDI: ffffffff8f6e4078
RBP: 000000000000001d R08: ffffffff91ff150f R09: 1ffffffff23fe2a1
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff23fe2a2 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffffffff1edc810 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dead000000000122
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055ef859d5000 CR3: 00000000320b4000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	f8                   	clc
   1:	4c 8b 73 10          	mov    0x10(%rbx),%r14
   5:	48 83 c3 18          	add    $0x18,%rbx
   9:	49 89 dd             	mov    %rbx,%r13
   c:	49 c1 ed 03          	shr    $0x3,%r13
  10:	43 80 7c 25 00 00    	cmpb   $0x0,0x0(%r13,%r12,1)
  16:	74 08                	je     0x20
  18:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  1b:	e8 69 6d 74 f8       	call   0xf8746d89
  20:	4c 8b 3b             	mov    (%rbx),%r15
  23:	4c 89 f8             	mov    %r15,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 20 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r12,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	4c 89 ff             	mov    %r15,%rdi
  34:	e8 f0 6d 74 f8       	call   0xf8746e29
  39:	4d 89 37             	mov    %r14,(%r15)
  3c:	4d 85 f6             	test   %r14,%r14
  3f:	74                   	.byte 0x74

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/08 09:01 linux-6.6.y a91a6aa9253c 4f6a9fcf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
2026/09/25 05:19 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 f281d9d2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
2026/09/24 04:44 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 0281b448 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
2026/09/17 02:08 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
2026/09/14 11:50 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
2026/09/12 09:38 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
2026/08/28 23:37 linux-6.6.y a4a971135a2f 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
2026/08/27 16:17 linux-6.6.y 93e0c9521fa8 69a01293 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
2026/08/25 05:28 linux-6.6.y dc6160265ffc 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in br_del_frame
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.