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BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (10)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/21 03:54
Subsystems: mm ext4
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+741fee3eb7f4c4e6992a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 111d, last: 2h37m
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
a73cd683-2581-4d49-97e2-0d7ed1ef20d9 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (10) 2026/05/18 13:06 2026/05/18 13:06 2026/05/18 13:31 d77e94325d4257b6d46f84ec600c478b4f1b6a3d
a87c01af-0b2c-4d65-899f-b0113870c0a6 repro BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (10) 2026/03/08 12:24 2026/03/08 12:24 2026/03/08 12:34 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
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[syzbot] [mm?] [ext4?] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (10) 0 (1) 2026/05/21 03:54
Similar bugs (15)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.19 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all 10 1 2221d 2221d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/08/18 08:06
linux-4.19 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (2) 10 8 1588d 1825d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/13 11:55
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (4) mm 10 8 3040d 3087d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/02/12 16:58
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (6) ext4 10 syz 7 2599d 2697d 0/29 closed as dup on 2018/12/31 07:50
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (7) tomoyo 10 7 2202d 2262d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/07/06 10:57
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (2) kernel 10 1 3116d 3116d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/11/09 10:06
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (8) kvm 10 11 2056d 2079d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/01/30 15:56
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all fs 10 1 3151d 3151d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/10/18 09:51
linux-4.14 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all 10 2 2191d 2225d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/17 07:42
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (9) net 10 1 468d 468d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/03/17 11:18
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in qlist_free_all (7) kernel 10 20 1629d 1850d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/03/03 13:56
linux-4.14 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (2) 10 3 1832d 1856d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/09/12 03:17
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (5) fs 10 19 2946d 3003d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/05/26 17:43
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all (3) mm 10 8 3090d 3106d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/12/05 10:45
android-54 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in qlist_free_all 8 1 407d 407d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/08 02:12

Sample crash report:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 800000007c8b6067 P4D 800000007c8b6067 PUD 0 
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7032 Comm: syz.0.224 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:qlink_to_cache mm/kasan/quarantine.c:131 [inline]
RIP: 0010:qlist_free_all+0x8d/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
Code: 48 89 c2 48 c1 e2 06 48 03 15 1f 8a a7 0b 48 8b 42 08 48 89 c1 83 e1 01 48 83 e9 01 48 09 c8 48 21 d0 80 78 33 f5 49 0f 45 c5 <48> 8b 68 08 eb 88 48 83 7d 40 00 75 9b 66 f7 45 08 04 02 75 93 8b
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000654f428 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88802c2a8000 RCX: ffffffffffffffff
RDX: ffffea0000b0aa00 RSI: ffffffff8df1f2e9 RDI: ffff88802c2a8000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88802c2a8000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc9000654f458 R15: 0000000000000100
FS:  00007fa39d6a46c0(0000) GS:ffff888124374000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000000757fe000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4569 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4898 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x241/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:4905
 vm_area_alloc+0x1f/0x160 mm/vma_init.c:32
 __mmap_new_vma mm/vma.c:2547 [inline]
 __mmap_region+0x104d/0x2da0 mm/vma.c:2771
 mmap_region+0x35d/0x620 mm/vma.c:2857
 do_mmap+0xc63/0x12f0 mm/mmap.c:560
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x29e/0x470 mm/util.c:581
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xe4/0x610 mm/mmap.c:606
 __do_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:89 [inline]
 __se_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:82 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mmap+0x125/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:82
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x10b/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa39c79ce59
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:00007fa39d6a4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa39ca15fa0 RCX: 00007fa39c79ce59
RDX: 00000000000000db RSI: 0000000004020009 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007fa39c832d6f R08: 0000000000000401 R09: 0000000000008000
R10: 0000000000000eb1 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa39ca16038 R14: 00007fa39ca15fa0 R15: 00007fffb789fb58
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
CR2: 0000000000000008
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:qlink_to_cache mm/kasan/quarantine.c:131 [inline]
RIP: 0010:qlist_free_all+0x8d/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
Code: 48 89 c2 48 c1 e2 06 48 03 15 1f 8a a7 0b 48 8b 42 08 48 89 c1 83 e1 01 48 83 e9 01 48 09 c8 48 21 d0 80 78 33 f5 49 0f 45 c5 <48> 8b 68 08 eb 88 48 83 7d 40 00 75 9b 66 f7 45 08 04 02 75 93 8b
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000654f428 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88802c2a8000 RCX: ffffffffffffffff
RDX: ffffea0000b0aa00 RSI: ffffffff8df1f2e9 RDI: ffff88802c2a8000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88802c2a8000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc9000654f458 R15: 0000000000000100
FS:  00007fa39d6a46c0(0000) GS:ffff888124374000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000000757fe000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	48 89 c2             	mov    %rax,%rdx
   3:	48 c1 e2 06          	shl    $0x6,%rdx
   7:	48 03 15 1f 8a a7 0b 	add    0xba78a1f(%rip),%rdx        # 0xba78a2d
   e:	48 8b 42 08          	mov    0x8(%rdx),%rax
  12:	48 89 c1             	mov    %rax,%rcx
  15:	83 e1 01             	and    $0x1,%ecx
  18:	48 83 e9 01          	sub    $0x1,%rcx
  1c:	48 09 c8             	or     %rcx,%rax
  1f:	48 21 d0             	and    %rdx,%rax
  22:	80 78 33 f5          	cmpb   $0xf5,0x33(%rax)
  26:	49 0f 45 c5          	cmovne %r13,%rax
* 2a:	48 8b 68 08          	mov    0x8(%rax),%rbp <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	eb 88                	jmp    0xffffffb8
  30:	48 83 7d 40 00       	cmpq   $0x0,0x40(%rbp)
  35:	75 9b                	jne    0xffffffd2
  37:	66 f7 45 08 04 02    	testw  $0x204,0x8(%rbp)
  3d:	75 93                	jne    0xffffffd2
  3f:	8b                   	.byte 0x8b

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/21 03:53 upstream df685633c3db 41b8c833 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all
2026/04/16 07:33 upstream 40286d6379aa df15c5f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all
2026/01/29 15:25 upstream 8dfce8991b95 aeb6fdd5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qlist_free_all
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.