general protection fault in software_node_register

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/05 22:45
Subsystems: acpi
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Reported-by: syzbot+665bae0a102933788e1a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d13h, last: 2d05h
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54e01eb1 assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in software_node_register 2026/08/05 00:02 2026/08/05 00:02 2026/08/05 00:02 d4abbeac
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Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 general protection fault in software_node_register 2 2 2d09h 2d11h 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/08/04 14:45
android-6-12 general protection fault in software_node_register 2 1 2d13h 2d13h 0/1 premoderation: reported on 2026/08/04 13:06
linux-6.6 general protection fault in software_node_register 2 4 2d00h 2d04h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/08/04 22:11
linux-6.1 general protection fault in software_node_register 2 4 2d00h 2d03h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/04 22:24
linux-5.15 general protection fault in software_node_register 2 syz, C 3 13h24m 2d07h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/04 18:41

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p2): shut down requested (2)
Aborting journal on device nvme0n1p2-8.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000000001
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000005
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0
[dfff800000000001] address between user and kernel address ranges
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 4917 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/02/2026
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : software_node_register+0x30/0xd4 drivers/base/swnode.c:927
lr : software_node_register+0x28/0xd4 drivers/base/swnode.c:926
sp : ffff800095917500
x29: ffff800095917500 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0000c2b100d0
x26: dfff800000000000 x25: ffff700012b22eb4 x24: 0000000000001ae0
x23: 0000000000000001 x22: dfff800000000000 x21: 0000000000000008
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000010000003fff x6 : 0000010000000000
x5 : ffff0000c6f62980 x4 : 0000000000000400 x3 : ffff8000831b8d98
x2 : 0000000000001ae0 x1 : ffff0000d09aba80 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 software_node_register+0x30/0xd4 drivers/base/swnode.c:927 (P)
 device_add_software_node+0x16c/0x1cc drivers/base/swnode.c:1015
 dwc3_pci_quirks drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-pci.c:311 [inline]
 dwc3_pci_probe+0x460/0x8e4 drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-pci.c:375
 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:736
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x48/0x148 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:755
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:594
Code: f2fbfff6 9784f9dc 91002275 d343feb7 (38766ae8) 
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	f2fbfff6 	movk	x22, #0xdfff, lsl #48
   4:	9784f9dc 	bl	0xfffffffffe13e774
   8:	91002275 	add	x21, x19, #0x8
   c:	d343feb7 	lsr	x23, x21, #3
* 10:	38766ae8 	ldrb	w8, [x23, x22] <-- trapping instruction

Crashes (23):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/04 16:15 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in software_node_register
2026/08/04 16:00 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in software_node_register
2026/08/04 20:26 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 15:53 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 15:50 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 15:01 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 14:58 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 13:21 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 13:21 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 13:20 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 13:19 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 13:11 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 13:11 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 17:15 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 17:14 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 17:02 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 17:01 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 15:42 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 15:41 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 18:13 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 18:08 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in software_node_register
2026/08/04 13:47 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in software_node_register
2026/08/04 13:47 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 Internal error in software_node_register
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.