general protection fault in delayed_work_timer_fn (4)

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/08/01 01:45
Reported-by: syzbot+19a4622a1ebbb4fd7614@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 70d, last: 11d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 general protection fault in delayed_work_timer_fn (3) 2 2 251d 274d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/01 16:21
android-6-1 general protection fault in delayed_work_timer_fn (2) 2 2 421d 422d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/12 09:01
android-6-1 general protection fault in delayed_work_timer_fn 2 2 534d 599d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/22 08:41
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in delayed_work_timer_fn 19 1 925d 925d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/26 06:44

Sample crash report:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 1 PID: 3175 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0x582/0xd50 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
Code: b4 00 00 00 e8 ff 53 29 00 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 ef e8 fd 69 b9 03 4c 8b 65 d0 4c 8b 6d c0 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 18 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 70 dd 6e 00 49 8b 3e e8 98 65 b9 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001b0c78 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffff8881147ca880
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 000000007fffffff RDI: 000000007fffffff
RBP: ffffc900001b0d08 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 00000000fffffffb
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1023b62139 R12: ffff88811db109c8
R13: ffff8881324f9800 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000007fffffff
FS:  00007f7611568880(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f78ea8b9ff8 CR3: 0000000132b8e000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 delayed_work_timer_fn+0x61/0x80 kernel/workqueue.c:1653
 call_timer_fn+0x46/0x2a0 kernel/time/timer.c:1553
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1599 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x672/0x9b0 kernel/time/timer.c:1875
 run_timer_softirq+0x6a/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1888
 handle_softirqs+0x1d7/0x600 kernel/softirq.c:642
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:680 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:497 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x52/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:729
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x10 kernel/softirq.c:741
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa9/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:clear_page_erms+0x7/0x10 arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:50
Code: 48 89 47 18 48 89 47 20 48 89 47 28 48 89 47 30 48 89 47 38 48 8d 7f 40 75 d9 90 c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 b9 00 10 00 00 31 c0 <f3> aa c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 89 c8 48 c1 e9 03 74 18 0f 1f 84 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000b3f620 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 0000000000000540
RDX: ffff88811e3ab000 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: ffff88811e3abac0
RBP: ffffc90000b3f660 R08: ffffea000478ea37 R09: ffffed1023c75000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff940008f1d47 R12: ffffea000478ea34
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2680
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2ca9/0x2d20 mm/page_alloc.c:4587
 __alloc_pages+0x1fa/0x610 mm/page_alloc.c:5931
 alloc_slab_page+0x6e/0xf0 include/linux/gfp.h:-1
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1967 [inline]
 new_slab+0x98/0x3e0 mm/slub.c:2020
 ___slab_alloc+0x70f/0xb70 mm/slub.c:3177
 __slab_alloc+0x5e/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3263
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3348 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3399 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1a8/0x320 mm/slub.c:3408
 getname_flags+0xba/0x510 fs/namei.c:139
 vfs_fstatat fs/stat.c:266 [inline]
 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:437 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstatat+0x127/0x440 fs/stat.c:431
 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x9b/0xb0 fs/stat.c:431
 x64_sys_call+0x77c/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:263
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f7610f11b0a
Code: 48 8b 15 f1 f2 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 41 89 ca b8 06 01 00 00 0f 05 <3d> 00 f0 ff ff 77 07 31 c0 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 8b 15 b9 f2 0d 00 f7
RSP: 002b:00007ffc33003998 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000106
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc33004480 RCX: 00007f7610f11b0a
RDX: 00007ffc330039b0 RSI: 00007ffc33004480 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 0000564d50d198d0 R08: 0000000000000075 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000564d425346d7 R15: 0000564d50f571b0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0x582/0xd50 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
Code: b4 00 00 00 e8 ff 53 29 00 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 ef e8 fd 69 b9 03 4c 8b 65 d0 4c 8b 6d c0 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 18 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 70 dd 6e 00 49 8b 3e e8 98 65 b9 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001b0c78 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffff8881147ca880
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 000000007fffffff RDI: 000000007fffffff
RBP: ffffc900001b0d08 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 00000000fffffffb
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1023b62139 R12: ffff88811db109c8
R13: ffff8881324f9800 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000007fffffff
FS:  00007f7611568880(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f78ea8b9ff8 CR3: 0000000132b8e000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	b4 00                	mov    $0x0,%ah
   2:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   4:	e8 ff 53 29 00       	call   0x295408
   9:	48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rbx
  10:	fc ff df
  13:	4c 89 ef             	mov    %r13,%rdi
  16:	e8 fd 69 b9 03       	call   0x3b96a18
  1b:	4c 8b 65 d0          	mov    -0x30(%rbp),%r12
  1f:	4c 8b 6d c0          	mov    -0x40(%rbp),%r13
  23:	4c 89 f0             	mov    %r14,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	80 3c 18 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%rbx,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	74 08                	je     0x38
  30:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
  33:	e8 70 dd 6e 00       	call   0x6edda8
  38:	49 8b 3e             	mov    (%r14),%rdi
  3b:	e8 98 65 b9 03       	call   0x3b965d8

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/29 03:34 android14-6.1 3d4bd33f0b0b 7bf4ea23 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in delayed_work_timer_fn
2026/08/01 01:45 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 7664cf44 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in delayed_work_timer_fn
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.