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general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/25 21:19
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+58e3dc3a42cf1871b50e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 177d, last: 2d14h
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Bug presence (1)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/12/26 upstream (ToT) ccd1cdca5cd4 C [report] general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write origin:upstream 2 C error 33 18d 239d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/25 16:29
upstream general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write usb media prio:low 8 C error 327 20h15m 646d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/09/13 13:35
linux-6.1 general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write 2 1 438d 438d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/18 07:04
linux-6.6 general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write origin:upstream 2 C error 8 2d15h 177d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/25 21:19

Sample crash report:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000019: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c8-0x00000000000000cf]
CPU: 1 PID: 4475 Comm: syz.1.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:582 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock+0xe8/0xaf0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:747
Code: c0 40 61 c0 96 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 6c 09 00 00 83 3d f5 10 88 0c 00 75 21 48 8d 7b 60 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 05 e8 ec 32 9b f7 48 39 5b 60 0f 85 ef 08 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900020af3a0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000019 RBX: 0000000000000068 RCX: ffffffff96c06103
RDX: ffff8880779d8000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c2c20 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: ffffc900020af4f8 R08: ffffffff86de1b82 R09: 1ffff1100b9bd02b
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100b9bd02c R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88805cde8158 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055557841f500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2ef63fff CR3: 000000005ab61000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dvb_usbv2_generic_write+0x22/0x50 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_urb.c:77
 mxl111sf_ctrl_msg+0x15e/0x2c0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c:73
 mxl111sf_write_reg+0xa6/0x180 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c:123
 mxl111sf_i2c_start drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-i2c.c:130 [inline]
 mxl111sf_i2c_sw_xfer_msg drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-i2c.c:-1 [inline]
 mxl111sf_i2c_xfer+0x493/0x50d0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-i2c.c:813
 __i2c_transfer+0x880/0x22b0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:-1
 i2c_transfer+0x25d/0x3a0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:2333
 i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x3dc/0x6d0 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:297
 i2cdev_ioctl+0x610/0x7b0 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:458
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:856
 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: 0033:0x7fa63759ce59
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:00007ffd1c171cc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa637815fa0 RCX: 00007fa63759ce59
RDX: 00002000000001c0 RSI: 0000000000000707 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fa637632d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa637815fac R14: 00007fa637815fa0 R15: 00007fa637815fa0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:582 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock+0xe8/0xaf0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:747
Code: c0 40 61 c0 96 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 6c 09 00 00 83 3d f5 10 88 0c 00 75 21 48 8d 7b 60 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 05 e8 ec 32 9b f7 48 39 5b 60 0f 85 ef 08 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900020af3a0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000019 RBX: 0000000000000068 RCX: ffffffff96c06103
RDX: ffff8880779d8000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c2c20 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: ffffc900020af4f8 R08: ffffffff86de1b82 R09: 1ffff1100b9bd02b
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100b9bd02c R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88805cde8158 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055557841f500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe80ceb3e9c CR3: 000000005ab61000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	c0 40 61 c0          	rolb   $0xc0,0x61(%rax)
   4:	96                   	xchg   %eax,%esi
   5:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
   9:	42 0f b6 04 28       	movzbl (%rax,%r13,1),%eax
   e:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  10:	0f 85 6c 09 00 00    	jne    0x982
  16:	83 3d f5 10 88 0c 00 	cmpl   $0x0,0xc8810f5(%rip)        # 0xc881112
  1d:	75 21                	jne    0x40
  1f:	48 8d 7b 60          	lea    0x60(%rbx),%rdi
  23:	48 89 f8             	mov    %rdi,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 05                	je     0x36
  31:	e8 ec 32 9b f7       	call   0xf79b3322
  36:	48 39 5b 60          	cmp    %rbx,0x60(%rbx)
  3a:	0f 85 ef 08 00 00    	jne    0x92f

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/03 11:05 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 3c0d2131 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2025/12/25 22:04 linux-6.1.y 50cbba13faa2 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2026/06/19 03:42 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2026/06/03 08:47 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 3c0d2131 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2026/06/03 08:47 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 3c0d2131 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2026/06/03 08:46 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 3c0d2131 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2026/05/19 08:11 linux-6.1.y c27210688955 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2026/04/21 12:02 linux-6.1.y 7c87defbd336 3f2e655b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2025/12/25 21:20 linux-6.1.y 50cbba13faa2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
2025/12/25 21:19 linux-6.1.y 50cbba13faa2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in dvb_usbv2_generic_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.