general protection fault in dvb_dmxdev_filter_stop (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/09/05 14:56
Subsystems: media
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+3aa88435ff6e5f9f69a8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d04h, last: 4d04h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
b76ed130 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ general protection fault in dvb_dmxdev_filter_stop (2) 2026/09/03 00:22 2026/09/03 00:22 2026/09/03 01:03 9941e97d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in dvb_dmxdev_filter_stop media prio:high 2 1 190d 186d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/27 22:24

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6439 Comm: syz.1.248 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:dvb_dmxdev_feed_stop drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:494 [inline]
RIP: 0010:dvb_dmxdev_filter_stop+0x19f/0x700 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:572
Code: 00 00 49 8d 5c 24 f8 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 ef 4c a5 fa 48 8b 1b 48 8d 7b 28 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 28 00 74 05 e8 d6 4c a5 fa 4c 8b 5b 28 48 89 df 2e 2e 2e 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc90006e67c70 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000005
RDX: ffffffff878cdb3a RSI: ffffffff8f0c10f0 RDI: 0000000000000028
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff888035db8000 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff88802be5fb90
R13: 1ffff92000fdb80c R14: ffffc90007edc054 R15: ffffc90007edc008
FS:  000055557bd66500(0000) GS:ffff888125bd6000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fd2b3595690 CR3: 0000000031a3c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dvb_dmxdev_filter_free drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:856 [inline]
 dvb_demux_release+0x9b/0x6b0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:1256
 __fput+0x42a/0xa80 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:70 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x204/0x770 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:336 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x328/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f432b08e159
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:00007ffe1f2da618 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f432b317da0 RCX: 00007f432b08e159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f432b317da0 R08: 00007f432b316218 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000005f6dc4 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000210f4
R13: 00007f432b31618c R14: 0000000000020e82 R15: 00007ffe1f2da720
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:dvb_dmxdev_feed_stop drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:494 [inline]
RIP: 0010:dvb_dmxdev_filter_stop+0x19f/0x700 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:572
Code: 00 00 49 8d 5c 24 f8 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 ef 4c a5 fa 48 8b 1b 48 8d 7b 28 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 28 00 74 05 e8 d6 4c a5 fa 4c 8b 5b 28 48 89 df 2e 2e 2e 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc90006e67c70 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000005
RDX: ffffffff878cdb3a RSI: ffffffff8f0c10f0 RDI: 0000000000000028
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff888035db8000 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff88802be5fb90
R13: 1ffff92000fdb80c R14: ffffc90007edc054 R15: ffffc90007edc008
FS:  000055557bd66500(0000) GS:ffff888125bd6000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fd2b3595690 CR3: 0000000031a3c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   2:	49 8d 5c 24 f8       	lea    -0x8(%r12),%rbx
   7:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
   a:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
   e:	80 3c 28 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%rbp,1)
  12:	74 08                	je     0x1c
  14:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  17:	e8 ef 4c a5 fa       	call   0xfaa54d0b
  1c:	48 8b 1b             	mov    (%rbx),%rbx
  1f:	48 8d 7b 28          	lea    0x28(%rbx),%rdi
  23:	48 89 f8             	mov    %rdi,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	80 3c 28 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%rbp,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	74 05                	je     0x35
  30:	e8 d6 4c a5 fa       	call   0xfaa54d0b
  35:	4c 8b 5b 28          	mov    0x28(%rbx),%r11
  39:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  3c:	2e                   	cs
  3d:	2e                   	cs
  3e:	2e                   	cs
  3f:	41                   	rex.B

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/01 14:55 upstream 786262be6048 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in dvb_dmxdev_filter_stop
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.