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general protection fault in remove_waiter

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/04/28 20:12
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+78147abe6c524f183ee9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d19h, last: 6d13h
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[syzbot] [kernel?] general protection fault in remove_waiter 1 (3) 2026/04/28 22:27
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-44 general protection fault in remove_waiter 2 syz 3 2711d 2575d 0/2 public: reported syz repro on 2019/04/14 08:51
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/28 22:02 24m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream OK log

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000151: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f]
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 6157 Comm: syz.3.37 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x15/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
Code: 00 00 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ef 03 48 01 c7 <0f> b6 07 3c 07 0f 96 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c4f9b0 EFLAGS: 00010082
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b8c8c8e RDI: dffffc0000000151
RBP: 0000000000000a88 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff8b8c8c8e
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f1de46966c0(0000) GS:ffff8880d6579000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f1de4633d58 CR3: 00000000479b7000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __kasan_check_byte+0x13/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:573
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x12a/0x370 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:158 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:158
 class_raw_spinlock_constructor include/linux/spinlock.h:535 [inline]
 remove_waiter+0x159/0x1200 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1561
 rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock+0x103/0x120 kernel/locking/rtmutex_api.c:369
 futex_requeue+0x10e4/0x20d0 kernel/futex/requeue.c:643
 do_futex+0x2af/0x350 kernel/futex/syscalls.c:156
 __do_sys_futex kernel/futex/syscalls.c:207 [inline]
 __se_sys_futex kernel/futex/syscalls.c:188 [inline]
 __x64_sys_futex+0x34f/0x4d0 kernel/futex/syscalls.c:188
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x10b/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f1de379cdd9
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:00007f1de4696028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1de3a15fa0 RCX: 00007f1de379cdd9
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000000c RDI: 000020000000cffc
RBP: 00007f1de3832d69 R08: 0000200000048000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000200000000040 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1de3a16038 R14: 00007f1de3a15fa0 R15: 00007ffea9ca8968
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x15/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
Code: 00 00 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ef 03 48 01 c7 <0f> b6 07 3c 07 0f 96 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c4f9b0 EFLAGS: 00010082
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b8c8c8e RDI: dffffc0000000151
RBP: 0000000000000a88 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff8b8c8c8e
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f1de46966c0(0000) GS:ffff8880d6579000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f1de4633d58 CR3: 00000000479b7000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   2:	0f 1f 00             	nopl   (%rax)
   5:	90                   	nop
   6:	90                   	nop
   7:	90                   	nop
   8:	90                   	nop
   9:	90                   	nop
   a:	90                   	nop
   b:	90                   	nop
   c:	90                   	nop
   d:	90                   	nop
   e:	90                   	nop
   f:	90                   	nop
  10:	90                   	nop
  11:	90                   	nop
  12:	90                   	nop
  13:	90                   	nop
  14:	90                   	nop
  15:	0f 1f 40 d6          	nopl   -0x2a(%rax)
  19:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  20:	fc ff df
  23:	48 c1 ef 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdi
  27:	48 01 c7             	add    %rax,%rdi
* 2a:	0f b6 07             	movzbl (%rdi),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2d:	3c 07                	cmp    $0x7,%al
  2f:	0f 96 c0             	setbe  %al
  32:	c3                   	ret
  33:	cc                   	int3
  34:	cc                   	int3
  35:	cc                   	int3
  36:	cc                   	int3
  37:	66                   	data16
  38:	66                   	data16
  39:	2e                   	cs
  3a:	0f                   	.byte 0xf
  3b:	1f                   	(bad)
  3c:	84 00                	test   %al,(%rax)

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/26 03:03 upstream 897d54018cc9 9c2d0995 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in remove_waiter
2026/04/26 02:37 upstream 897d54018cc9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in remove_waiter
2026/04/24 21:25 upstream 892c894b4ba4 9c2d0995 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in remove_waiter
2026/04/24 21:23 upstream 892c894b4ba4 9c2d0995 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in remove_waiter
2026/04/24 21:21 upstream 892c894b4ba4 9c2d0995 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in remove_waiter
2026/04/24 20:05 upstream 892c894b4ba4 9c2d0995 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in remove_waiter
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.