WARNING in __media_pipeline_start

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/06 00:01
Subsystems: media
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+68e901d044baaea1f60c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d14h, last: 5d20h
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db55a55d assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in __media_pipeline_start 2026/08/09 22:06 2026/08/09 22:06 2026/08/09 22:09 5d63f80b
61aae20e assessment-security 💥 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start 2026/08/05 00:08 2026/08/05 00:08 2026/08/05 00:08 d4abbeac
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[syzbot] [media?] WARNING in __media_pipeline_start 0 (1) 2026/08/06 00:01

Sample crash report:
vimc link validate: Sensor A:src:640x480 (0x42474752, 0, 0, 0, 0) Raw Capture 0:snk:640x480 (0x42474752, 8, 0, 0, 0)
vimc link validate: Scaler:src:640x480 (0x33424752, 8, 0, 0, 0) RGB/YUV Capture:snk:640x480 (0x33424752, 8, 0, 0, 0)
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WARNING: drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:785 at __media_pipeline_start+0x13c4/0x17fc drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:785, CPU#0: syz.0.17/4920
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 4920 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 : __media_pipeline_start+0x13c4/0x17fc drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:785
lr : __media_pipeline_start+0x13c4/0x17fc drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:785
sp : ffff800093407710
x29: ffff800093407790 x28: ffff0000cbe68a20 x27: 1fffe000197cd0e6
x26: ffff0000cbe68760 x25: 1fffe000197cd15b x24: ffff0000cbe68ad8
x23: dfff800000000000 x22: ffff0000cbabf010 x21: 0000000000000001
x20: ffff0000cbe68b10 x19: dfff800000000000 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000020007200
x14: 00000000ffff8000 x13: 0000000000000001 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : ffff8000839d6934 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : ffff8000839d4f70
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffff0000c4551d40 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 __media_pipeline_start+0x13c4/0x17fc drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:785 (P)
 media_pipeline_start+0x58/0x7c drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:924
 video_device_pipeline_start+0x88/0xb4 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:1159
 vimc_capture_start_streaming+0x6c/0xec drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-capture.c:248
 vb2_start_streaming+0x114/0x4ac drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1783
 vb2_core_streamon+0x288/0x44c drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2336
 vb2_streamon+0x80/0xb4 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:875
 vb2_ioctl_streamon+0xb8/0xd0 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:1118
 v4l_streamon+0x64/0x94 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:1965
 __video_do_ioctl+0x768/0xaa8 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3133
 video_usercopy+0x74c/0xe88 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3475
 video_ioctl2+0x3c/0x50 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3532
 v4l2_ioctl+0x148/0x18c drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:366
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x154/0x1cc fs/ioctl.c:583
 __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
irq event stamp: 1910
hardirqs last  enabled at (1909): [<ffff800080b9e27c>] kasan_quarantine_put+0xb4/0x1c4 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:234
hardirqs last disabled at (1910): [<ffff8000868e6198>] el1_brk64+0x20/0x54 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:425
softirqs last  enabled at (1722): [<ffff800080139980>] local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
softirqs last  enabled at (1722): [<ffff800080139980>] put_cpu_fpsimd_context arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c:251 [inline]
softirqs last  enabled at (1722): [<ffff800080139980>] do_sve_acc+0x32c/0x4b8 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c:1349
softirqs last disabled at (1720): [<ffff800080139760>] local_bh_disable include/linux/bottom_half.h:20 [inline]
softirqs last disabled at (1720): [<ffff800080139760>] get_cpu_fpsimd_context arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c:234 [inline]
softirqs last disabled at (1720): [<ffff800080139760>] do_sve_acc+0x10c/0x4b8 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c:1325
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Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/05 01:51 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 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 23:48 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 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 21:34 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 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 18:59 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 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 16:50 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 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/06 07:55 upstream 0d8395707651 cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/06 07:55 upstream 0d8395707651 cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/06 03:41 upstream 0d8395707651 cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 13:34 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 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 13:33 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 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.