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: 39d, last: 14h48m
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 general protection fault in vsscanf 2 syz, C 57 3h35m 40d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 10:26
linux-5.15 general protection fault in vsscanf origin:lts-only 2 syz, C 15 12d 39d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 22:35
linux-6.1 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vsscanf 8 syz, C 62 11d 40d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 15:35
linux-6.6 general protection fault in vsscanf 2 syz, C 30 8d22h 39d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/19 08:56
upstream general protection fault in vsscanf (2) mm 2 syz, C 11 644d 650d 28/29 fixed on 2025/05/06 15:33
upstream general protection fault in vsscanf v9fs 2 syz, C 7 2970d 3000d 8/29 fixed on 2018/09/03 14:47
android-49 general protection fault in vsscanf 2 syz, C 6 2951d 2723d 0/3 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/14 00:00
android-6-12 general protection fault in vsscanf origin:lts 2 syz, C 140 14h04m 40d 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2026/08/18 03:15
linux-4.19 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vsscanf (2) 8 2 1808d 1910d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/02/11 22:53
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in vsscanf bluetooth 7 syz 9 1669d 1736d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/27 18:52
linux-4.19 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vsscanf (3) 8 1 1616d 1616d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/22 19:56

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-executor970 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 20 d0 99 86 e8 58 b4 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: ffffffff854b5901 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: ffffffff82720be8 RSI: ffffffff8699d020 RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: ffffc90000987710 R08: ffff8881011a2780 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000025 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff854b5900
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055558c2573c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000240 CR3: 0000000124e63000 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: 0033:0x7faabfaf6c39
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:00007ffce1a6eec8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0067756265642f2e RCX: 00007faabfaf6c39
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: 0000200000000600 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffce1a6eff8
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffce1a6efe8
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 00007faabfb87ca0 R15: 0000000000000002
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace bb2d7d8fc9bf4cf5 ]---
RIP: 0010:vsscanf+0x196/0x24b0 lib/vsprintf.c:3450
Code: 48 c7 c6 20 d0 99 86 e8 58 b4 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: ffffffff854b5901 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: ffffffff82720be8 RSI: ffffffff8699d020 RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: ffffc90000987710 R08: ffff8881011a2780 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000025 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff854b5900
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055558c2573c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000240 CR3: 0000000124e63000 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 20 d0 99 86 	mov    $0xffffffff8699d020,%rsi
   7:	e8 58 b4 f7 fe       	call   0xfef7b464
   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

Crashes (42):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/08 02:18 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 680aa3e1 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/05 01:59 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 4f7b22a0 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/04 07:34 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 801f0966 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/04 02:03 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 801f0966 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/03 17:35 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 6a988719 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/03 14:28 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 6a988719 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/03 02:28 android13-5.15-lts 3af1e5c20882 85995287 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/18 22:06 android13-5.15-lts a825653ab7af 1e72964b .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/27 01:12 android13-5.15-lts 776976664f31 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/26 04:44 android13-5.15-lts 776976664f31 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/26 04:44 android13-5.15-lts 776976664f31 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/26 04:44 android13-5.15-lts 776976664f31 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/19 22:02 android13-5.15-lts 5bfe2b8c1439 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/14 15:36 android13-5.15-lts 5bfe2b8c1439 81a27d1a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/14 15:36 android13-5.15-lts 5bfe2b8c1439 81a27d1a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/14 15:35 android13-5.15-lts 5bfe2b8c1439 81a27d1a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/12 19:52 android13-5.15-lts 5bfe2b8c1439 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/12 19:52 android13-5.15-lts 5bfe2b8c1439 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/12 19:50 android13-5.15-lts 5bfe2b8c1439 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/12 19:50 android13-5.15-lts 5bfe2b8c1439 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/11 03:31 android13-5.15-lts 6b20b42b6635 1fe56c0a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/11 03:30 android13-5.15-lts 6b20b42b6635 1fe56c0a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/10 19:56 android13-5.15-lts 6c35ef5f7a13 1fe56c0a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/10 07:56 android13-5.15-lts 6c35ef5f7a13 4e8b1cc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/10 07:56 android13-5.15-lts 6c35ef5f7a13 4e8b1cc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/07 21:26 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 680aa3e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/07 21:25 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 680aa3e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/07 01:46 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/05 08:28 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/09/05 08:28 android13-5.15-lts e9b8a6529ffa 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/30 05:36 android13-5.15-lts 54850912d011 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/30 05:36 android13-5.15-lts 54850912d011 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/29 22:54 android13-5.15-lts 54850912d011 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/29 22:54 android13-5.15-lts 54850912d011 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/29 22:53 android13-5.15-lts 54850912d011 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/27 19:36 android13-5.15-lts 54850912d011 69a01293 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/21 09:00 android13-5.15-lts dd960aad97f0 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/21 08:59 android13-5.15-lts dd960aad97f0 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/19 01:08 android13-5.15-lts a825653ab7af 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/19 01:08 android13-5.15-lts a825653ab7af 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/19 01:07 android13-5.15-lts a825653ab7af 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
2026/08/18 21:48 android13-5.15-lts a825653ab7af 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vsscanf
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.