general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/21 07:41
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+1a01783ea233350598b5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d12h, last: 3d17h
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45de1f5c assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe 2026/08/19 02:48 2026/08/19 02:48 2026/08/19 03:37 1e72964b
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[PATCH] usb: typec: fix null-pointer-dereference in wcove_typec_probe() 4 (4) 2026/08/21 15:19
[syzbot] [usb?] general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe 0 (1) 2026/08/21 07:41
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe 2 syz, C 5 1d08h 4d02h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/17 17:39

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6187 Comm: syz.5.107 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
RIP: 0010:wcove_typec_probe+0xdb/0x780 drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/wcove.c:621
Code: 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 af 05 00 00 48 8d 7d 08 4d 89 af 88 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 7f 05 00 00 49 8d bf 90 00 00 00 48 8b 6d 08 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000594fb18 EFLAGS: 00010212
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88801e371000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff888035b4d483 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff90281e28
R13: ffff88801e371010 R14: ffff888035b4d4c0 R15: ffff888035b4d438
FS:  00007f3b03bde6c0(0000) GS:ffff888123de1000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c3be387 CR3: 0000000013036000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 platform_probe+0x106/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1439
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 device_driver_attach+0xd1/0x220 drivers/base/dd.c:1203
 bind_store+0xf4/0x190 drivers/base/bus.c:267
 drv_attr_store+0x74/0xb0 drivers/base/bus.c:125
 sysfs_kf_write+0xf2/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e0/0x5f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6ac/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f3b02d9e0d9
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:00007f3b03bde028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3b03025fa0 RCX: 00007f3b02d9e0d9
RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000200000000200 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f3b02e35024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f3b03026038 R14: 00007f3b03025fa0 R15: 00007ffd49d97768
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:wcove_typec_probe+0xdb/0x780 drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/wcove.c:621
Code: 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 af 05 00 00 48 8d 7d 08 4d 89 af 88 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 7f 05 00 00 49 8d bf 90 00 00 00 48 8b 6d 08 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000594fb18 EFLAGS: 00010212
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88801e371000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff888035b4d483 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff90281e28
R13: ffff88801e371010 R14: ffff888035b4d4c0 R15: ffff888035b4d438
FS:  00007f3b03bde6c0(0000) GS:ffff888123ee1000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000562bed817760 CR3: 0000000013036000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	48 c1 ea 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdx
   4:	80 3c 02 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rdx,%rax,1)
   8:	0f 85 af 05 00 00    	jne    0x5bd
   e:	48 8d 7d 08          	lea    0x8(%rbp),%rdi
  12:	4d 89 af 88 00 00 00 	mov    %r13,0x88(%r15)
  19:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  20:	fc ff df
  23:	48 89 fa             	mov    %rdi,%rdx
  26:	48 c1 ea 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdx
* 2a:	80 3c 02 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rdx,%rax,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	0f 85 7f 05 00 00    	jne    0x5b3
  34:	49 8d bf 90 00 00 00 	lea    0x90(%r15),%rdi
  3b:	48 8b 6d 08          	mov    0x8(%rbp),%rbp
  3f:	48                   	rex.W

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/17 13:07 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 13:07 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 10:17 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 10:16 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 09:11 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 07:31 upstream dcb68831eac7 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 02:41 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 02:34 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 02:33 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 01:32 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 01:29 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.