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BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in pc_clock_settime

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/29 18:03
Subsystems: net
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Reported-by: syzbot+a546141ca6d53b90aba3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d09h, last: 13h57m
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH net 2/2] gve: Implement settime64 with -EOPNOTSUPP 1 (1) 2025/10/29 18:45
[syzbot] [net?] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in pc_clock_settime 0 (1) 2025/10/29 18:03

Sample crash report:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual 
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000086000006
  EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000135fb5000
[0000000000000000] pgd=08000001388c8403, p4d=08000001388c8403, pud=0800000108f27403, pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000006 [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7498 Comm: syz.1.179 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/03/2025
pstate: 83400805 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=-c)
pc : 0x0
lr : ptp_clock_settime+0x148/0x264 drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c:107
sp : ffff8000a5717c40
x29: ffff8000a5717c40 x28: ffff0000c2d1bd80 x27: 00000000fffffffb
x26: 1fffe000185a37b0 x25: 000000003b9aca00 x24: dfff800000000000
x23: 00000001ed5d7404 x22: 0000000000989680 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: ffff0000cdebe400 x19: ffff8000a5717d00 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: ffff800093305000 x16: ffff800082de95c8 x15: 0000000000000001
x14: 1ffff00014ae2f70 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffff700014ae2f71 x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : ffff8000877add70 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : ffff800093602630 x4 : 0000000000000002 x3 : ffff80008adffef8
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffff8000a5717d00 x0 : ffff0000cdebe400
Call trace:
 0x0 (P)
 pc_clock_settime+0x224/0x298 kernel/time/posix-clock.c:304
 __do_sys_clock_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1131 [inline]
 __se_sys_clock_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1115 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_clock_settime+0x208/0x254 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1115
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x254 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
 el0_svc+0x5c/0x254 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:746
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x12c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:765
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:596
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/30 20:50 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci b98c94eed4a9 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in pc_clock_settime
2025/10/29 13:55 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci b98c94eed4a9 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in pc_clock_settime
2025/10/26 10:51 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci b98c94eed4a9 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in pc_clock_settime
2025/10/25 01:17 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci b98c94eed4a9 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in pc_clock_settime
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.