general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/22 15:12
Reported-by: syzbot+5500026dcc51e7cb520b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 20d, last: 18d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe origin:upstream 2 syz, C 3 17d 20d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/22 15:34
upstream general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe prio:low usb 2 syz 12 49d 53d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2026/09/07 09:03
linux-6.1 general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe 2 syz, C 9 20d 56d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/17 17:39

Sample crash report:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 PID: 4314 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:wcove_typec_probe+0xd1/0x570 drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/wcove.c:621
Code: 27 00 74 13 49 8d be 90 00 00 00 e8 59 a0 68 fb 49 8d 86 90 00 00 00 48 89 6c 24 18 48 89 28 49 83 c5 08 4c 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ef e8 b0 9f 68 fb 49 8b 6d 00 4d 8d ae
RSP: 0018:ffffc900031afa50 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff8881411cd000 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888025839888
RBP: ffff8881411cd010 R08: ffff8880258398a7 R09: ffff888025839898
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1004b07315 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000008 R14: ffff888025839828 R15: 1ffff11004b07317
FS:  0000555555590500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b31863fff CR3: 000000007aed1000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 platform_probe+0x137/0x1c0 drivers/base/platform.c:1391
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x276/0xc70 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:775
 device_driver_attach+0xdc/0x1d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1096
 bind_store+0x33b/0x380 drivers/base/bus.c:216
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x500 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2179 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x748/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f0f49609159
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffdef9f69c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0f49890fa0 RCX: 00007f0f49609159
RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000200000000380 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007f0f496a006b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0f49890fac R14: 00007f0f49890fa0 R15: 00007f0f49890fa0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0e1ae666e2e17cd2 ]---
RIP: 0010:wcove_typec_probe+0xd1/0x570 drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/wcove.c:621
Code: 27 00 74 13 49 8d be 90 00 00 00 e8 59 a0 68 fb 49 8d 86 90 00 00 00 48 89 6c 24 18 48 89 28 49 83 c5 08 4c 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ef e8 b0 9f 68 fb 49 8b 6d 00 4d 8d ae
RSP: 0018:ffffc900031afa50 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff8881411cd000 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888025839888
RBP: ffff8881411cd010 R08: ffff8880258398a7 R09: ffff888025839898
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1004b07315 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000008 R14: ffff888025839828 R15: 1ffff11004b07317
FS:  0000555555590500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffcfae9b0b8 CR3: 000000007aed1000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
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Code disassembly (best guess), 1 bytes skipped:
   0:	00 74 13 49          	add    %dh,0x49(%rbx,%rdx,1)
   4:	8d be 90 00 00 00    	lea    0x90(%rsi),%edi
   a:	e8 59 a0 68 fb       	call   0xfb68a068
   f:	49 8d 86 90 00 00 00 	lea    0x90(%r14),%rax
  16:	48 89 6c 24 18       	mov    %rbp,0x18(%rsp)
  1b:	48 89 28             	mov    %rbp,(%rax)
  1e:	49 83 c5 08          	add    $0x8,%r13
  22:	4c 89 e8             	mov    %r13,%rax
  25:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 29:	42 80 3c 20 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r12,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	74 08                	je     0x38
  30:	4c 89 ef             	mov    %r13,%rdi
  33:	e8 b0 9f 68 fb       	call   0xfb689fe8
  38:	49 8b 6d 00          	mov    0x0(%r13),%rbp
  3c:	4d                   	rex.WRB
  3d:	8d                   	.byte 0x8d
  3e:	ae                   	scas   %es:(%rdi),%al

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/25 01:12 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 3c3cdf19 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/09/22 15:13 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e e12281bd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/09/22 15:12 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e e12281bd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.