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general protection fault in step_into

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/14 20:10
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+f3a1ef61c7e1d78a2fb6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 218d, last: 1d06h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/09/19 linux-6.6.y (ToT) 60a9e718726f C [report] general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/19 upstream (ToT) 097a6c336d00 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 general protection fault in step_into origin:lts-only 11 C done 312 14d 738d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/13 08:21
upstream general protection fault in step_into fs 2 1 2060d 2056d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/11/28 01:59
android-5-10 general protection fault in step_into 2 C done 314 3d00h 1073d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/05/14 14:12
linux-6.1 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in step_into origin:lts-only 11 C inconclusive 108 59d 745d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/06 11:08
android-5-15 general protection fault in step_into origin:downstream 2 C done 126 10d 1073d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/05/14 14:01
android-6-1 general protection fault in step_into origin:downstream 2 C done 99 2d19h 1073d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/05/14 14:12
android-6-12 general protection fault in step_into origin:downstream 2 C 37 8d18h 294d 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2025/06/30 23:58
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in step_into ntfs3 11 C error done 5 836d 1203d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/25 15:27
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/11/18 23:58 1h46m fix candidate upstream OK (0) job log

Sample crash report:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
CPU: 0 PID: 5875 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
RIP: 0010:traverse_mounts fs/namei.c:1443 [inline]
RIP: 0010:handle_mounts fs/namei.c:1555 [inline]
RIP: 0010:step_into+0x129/0xf20 fs/namei.c:1848
Code: 74 24 08 c6 44 24 7f 00 43 0f b6 04 3c 84 c0 4d 89 fd 0f 85 fd 0b 00 00 45 8b 36 4c 8b bc 24 a8 00 00 00 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 fc 0b 00 00 45 8b 3f 44 89 fe 81 e6 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003057ac0 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffffc90003057ca0 RCX: ffff888027113c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90003057bc8 R08: ffff88805dc5ded7 R09: 1ffff1100bb8bbda
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100bb8bbdb R12: 1ffff9200060af9b
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000080 R15: 0000000000000018
FS:  0000555570e5b500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555570e86aa8 CR3: 000000002f2ba000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 lookup_last fs/namei.c:2467 [inline]
 path_lookupat+0x169/0x440 fs/namei.c:2491
 filename_lookup+0x228/0x560 fs/namei.c:2520
 user_path_at_empty+0x42/0x60 fs/namei.c:2917
 user_path_at include/linux/namei.h:57 [inline]
 ksys_umount fs/namespace.c:1921 [inline]
 __do_sys_umount fs/namespace.c:1929 [inline]
 __se_sys_umount fs/namespace.c:1927 [inline]
 __x64_sys_umount+0xfd/0x180 fs/namespace.c:1927
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fb1df39da57
Code: a2 c7 05 9c fc 24 00 00 00 00 00 eb 96 e8 e1 12 00 00 90 31 f6 e9 09 00 00 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 b8 a6 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 c7 c2 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8
RSP: 002b:00007ffcb192ba28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fb1df39da57
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 00007ffcb192bae0
RBP: 00007ffcb192bae0 R08: 00007ffcb192cae0 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffcb192cbd0
R13: 00007fb1df432048 R14: 0000555570e5b4e8 R15: 00007ffcb192ed90
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:traverse_mounts fs/namei.c:1443 [inline]
RIP: 0010:handle_mounts fs/namei.c:1555 [inline]
RIP: 0010:step_into+0x129/0xf20 fs/namei.c:1848
Code: 74 24 08 c6 44 24 7f 00 43 0f b6 04 3c 84 c0 4d 89 fd 0f 85 fd 0b 00 00 45 8b 36 4c 8b bc 24 a8 00 00 00 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 fc 0b 00 00 45 8b 3f 44 89 fe 81 e6 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003057ac0 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffffc90003057ca0 RCX: ffff888027113c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90003057bc8 R08: ffff88805dc5ded7 R09: 1ffff1100bb8bbda
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100bb8bbdb R12: 1ffff9200060af9b
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000080 R15: 0000000000000018
FS:  0000555570e5b500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f05eada1796 CR3: 000000002f2ba000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	74 24                	je     0x26
   2:	08 c6                	or     %al,%dh
   4:	44 24 7f             	rex.R and $0x7f,%al
   7:	00 43 0f             	add    %al,0xf(%rbx)
   a:	b6 04                	mov    $0x4,%dh
   c:	3c 84                	cmp    $0x84,%al
   e:	c0 4d 89 fd          	rorb   $0xfd,-0x77(%rbp)
  12:	0f 85 fd 0b 00 00    	jne    0xc15
  18:	45 8b 36             	mov    (%r14),%r14d
  1b:	4c 8b bc 24 a8 00 00 	mov    0xa8(%rsp),%r15
  22:	00
  23:	4c 89 f8             	mov    %r15,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 0f b6 04 28       	movzbl (%rax,%r13,1),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  31:	0f 85 fc 0b 00 00    	jne    0xc33
  37:	45 8b 3f             	mov    (%r15),%r15d
  3a:	44 89 fe             	mov    %r15d,%esi
  3d:	81                   	.byte 0x81
  3e:	e6 00                	out    %al,$0x0

Crashes (22):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/20 10:06 linux-6.6.y 9760bf04666d 303e2802 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/16 17:05 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/16 13:42 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/16 09:02 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/16 04:14 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/16 02:02 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/15 21:18 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/15 16:41 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/15 13:31 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/15 09:42 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/15 00:40 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/12/23 18:10 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/12/21 16:16 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/12/17 02:31 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/12/11 08:14 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/12/04 17:15 linux-6.6.y 4791134e4aeb d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/11/11 09:09 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/11/10 14:52 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/11/09 22:14 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/10/26 17:35 linux-6.6.y 4a243110dc88 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/16 17:15 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
2025/09/14 20:09 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in step_into
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.