general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/21 08:03
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+7300affe388249d66dfe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d16h, last: 3d21h
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b11cd461 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe 2026/08/18 00:01 2026/08/18 00:01 2026/08/18 00:05 1e72964b
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[syzbot] [usb?] general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe 0 (1) 2026/08/21 08:03
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe 2 2 4d06h 4d06h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/17 17:43

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5839 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:vhci_hcd_probe+0x47/0x3e0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1367
Code: ff 0b eb f9 49 8d 9e 80 00 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 33 86 59 fa 48 8b 1b 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 1b 86 59 fa 4c 8b 23 48 c7 c0 20 e5
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000397fac0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88802a031f40
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88801c76c000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff88802a6f9873 R09: 1ffff110054df30e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff87dcb110 R12: ffff88801c76c000
R13: ffffffff8fc690a0 R14: ffff88801c76c000 R15: ffffffff87dcb110
FS:  000055556104d500(0000) GS:ffff888124df8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe52c870000 CR3: 0000000075d5a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 platform_probe+0xf9/0x190 drivers/base/platform.c:1507
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 device_driver_attach+0xe0/0x1d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1203
 bind_store+0x1d0/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:267
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a4/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x612/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe52c99e0d9
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:00007ffc9f637838 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe52cc25fa0 RCX: 00007fe52c99e0d9
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fe52ca35024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe52cc25fac R14: 00007fe52cc25fa0 R15: 00007fe52cc25fa0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:vhci_hcd_probe+0x47/0x3e0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1367
Code: ff 0b eb f9 49 8d 9e 80 00 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 33 86 59 fa 48 8b 1b 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 1b 86 59 fa 4c 8b 23 48 c7 c0 20 e5
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000397fac0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88802a031f40
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88801c76c000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff88802a6f9873 R09: 1ffff110054df30e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff87dcb110 R12: ffff88801c76c000
R13: ffffffff8fc690a0 R14: ffff88801c76c000 R15: ffffffff87dcb110
FS:  000055556104d500(0000) GS:ffff888124df8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe52c870000 CR3: 0000000075d5a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	ff 0b                	decl   (%rbx)
   2:	eb f9                	jmp    0xfffffffd
   4:	49 8d 9e 80 00 00 00 	lea    0x80(%r14),%rbx
   b:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
   e:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
  12:	80 3c 28 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%rbp,1)
  16:	74 08                	je     0x20
  18:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  1b:	e8 33 86 59 fa       	call   0xfa598653
  20:	48 8b 1b             	mov    (%rbx),%rbx
  23:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	80 3c 28 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%rbp,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	74 08                	je     0x38
  30:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  33:	e8 1b 86 59 fa       	call   0xfa598653
  38:	4c 8b 23             	mov    (%rbx),%r12
  3b:	48                   	rex.W
  3c:	c7                   	.byte 0xc7
  3d:	c0 20 e5             	shlb   $0xe5,(%rax)

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/17 09:19 linux-next 4477a78374a5 746171ee .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/17 08:40 linux-next 4477a78374a5 746171ee .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/17 10:11 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/17 10:10 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/17 08:56 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/17 08:48 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/18 02:47 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/18 02:44 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/17 07:58 linux-next 4477a78374a5 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
2026/08/17 07:55 linux-next 4477a78374a5 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in vhci_hcd_probe
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.