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BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in pc_clock_adjtime

Status: fixed on 2026/01/07 12:29
Subsystems: net
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Fix commit: 6ab753b5d8e5 gve: Implement gettimex64 with -EOPNOTSUPP
First crash: 255d, last: 240d

Sample crash report:
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=00000001433b5000
[0000000000000000] pgd=080000012dcd6403, p4d=080000012dcd6403, pud=080000013a756403, pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000006 [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9503 Comm: syz.0.589 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/03/2025
pstate: 63400805 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=-c)
pc : 0x0
lr : ptp_clock_adjtime+0x520/0x720 drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c:165
sp : ffff80009d767a80
x29: ffff80009d767b20 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 1ffff00013aecf82
x26: dfff800000000000 x25: ffff700013aecf54 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000022 x21: ffff0000cd8ba000
x20: ffff80009d767c10 x19: ffff0000cd6a4200 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: ffff800093325000 x16: ffff800082dee2c8 x15: 0000000000000001
x14: 1ffff00013aecf38 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000080000 x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 0000000000000002
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : ffff8000877b4804 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : ffff80009367b598 x4 : 0000000000000002 x3 : ffff80008ae0b9ac
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000000000022 x0 : ffff0000cd6a4200
Call trace:
 0x0 (P)
 pc_clock_adjtime+0x1b0/0x23c kernel/time/posix-clock.c:239
 do_clock_adjtime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1161 [inline]
 __do_sys_clock_adjtime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1173 [inline]
 __se_sys_clock_adjtime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1164 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_clock_adjtime+0x1e0/0x370 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1164
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x254 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0xe8/0x23c 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:724
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x12c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:743
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:596
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/18 07:40 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 0135f5afa33b ef766cd7 .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_adjtime
2025/11/13 21:02 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci db9030a787e3 07e030de .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_adjtime
2025/11/13 17:53 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 74c964729281 07e030de .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_adjtime
2025/11/10 14:51 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci e424ed997df8 4e1406b4 .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_adjtime
2025/11/02 13:34 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci dcb6fa37fd7b 2c50b6a9 .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_adjtime
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.