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general protection fault in vsscanf
Status:
upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 22:10
Reported-by: syzbot+4c7d82f3815030b06612@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 8h29m, last: 5h10m
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: 0 PID: 303 Comm: syz-executor361 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:vsscanf+0x196/0x24b0 lib/vsprintf.c:3450
Code: 48 c7 c6 80 cf 99 86 e8 c8 a4 f7 fe 41 83 fe 25 74 4d 45 85 f6 0f 84 b6 21 00 00 48 ff c3 48 89 5c 24 78 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 4f 1b 00 00 41 0f b6 1f 45 0f b6 f6 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc900009875e0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff854b5541 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: ffffffff82721758 RSI: ffffffff8699cf80 RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: ffffc90000987710 R08: ffff88811df4a780 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000025 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff854b5540
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 000055556aba23c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000240 CR3: 0000000125c9e000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
sscanf+0xdf/0x130 lib/vsprintf.c:3708
split_huge_pages_write+0x30d/0xfc0 mm/huge_memory.c:3134
full_proxy_write+0x10f/0x1c0 fs/debugfs/file.c:244
vfs_write+0x404/0xfd0 fs/read_write.c:592
ksys_write+0x14a/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
__do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:659 [inline]
__se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:656 [inline]
__x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:656
x64_sys_call+0x8ef/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f45e65e0c39
Code: c0 79 93 eb d5 48 8d 7c 1d 00 eb 99 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 d8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffde66a46d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0067756265642f2e RCX: 00007f45e65e0c39
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: 0000200000000600 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffde66a4808
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffde66a47f8
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 00007f45e6671ca0 R15: 0000000000000002
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace bfe45dab523c64d9 ]---
RIP: 0010:vsscanf+0x196/0x24b0 lib/vsprintf.c:3450
Code: 48 c7 c6 80 cf 99 86 e8 c8 a4 f7 fe 41 83 fe 25 74 4d 45 85 f6 0f 84 b6 21 00 00 48 ff c3 48 89 5c 24 78 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 4f 1b 00 00 41 0f b6 1f 45 0f b6 f6 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc900009875e0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff854b5541 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: ffffffff82721758 RSI: ffffffff8699cf80 RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: ffffc90000987710 R08: ffff88811df4a780 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000025 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff854b5540
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 000055556aba23c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000240 CR3: 0000000125c9e000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
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Code disassembly (best guess):
0: 48 c7 c6 80 cf 99 86 mov $0xffffffff8699cf80,%rsi
7: e8 c8 a4 f7 fe call 0xfef7a4d4
c: 41 83 fe 25 cmp $0x25,%r14d
10: 74 4d je 0x5f
12: 45 85 f6 test %r14d,%r14d
15: 0f 84 b6 21 00 00 je 0x21d1
1b: 48 ff c3 inc %rbx
1e: 48 89 5c 24 78 mov %rbx,0x78(%rsp)
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 4f 1b 00 00 jne 0x1b86
37: 41 0f b6 1f movzbl (%r15),%ebx
3b: 45 0f b6 f6 movzbl %r14b,%r14d
3f: 44 rex.R
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.