Re: [syzbot] upstream boot error: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in __dabt_svc

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Wed Apr 26 2023 - 02:40:52 EST


On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 at 06:49, Sergey Senozhatsky
<senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On (23/04/25 13:06), syzbot wrote:
> > 8<--- cut here ---
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000005fc when read
> > [000005fc] *pgd=80000080004003, *pmd=00000000
> > Internal error: Oops: 206 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> > Modules linked in:
> > CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.3.0-syzkaller #0
> > Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
>
> > Insufficient stack space to handle exception!
>
> So much stuff is going on there.
>
> > Task stack: [0xdf85c000..0xdf85e000]
> > IRQ stack: [0xdf804000..0xdf806000]
> > Overflow stack: [0x828ae000..0x828af000]
> > Internal error: kernel stack overflow: 0 [#2] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> > Modules linked in:
> > CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.3.0-syzkaller #0
> > Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
> > PC is at __dabt_svc+0x14/0x60 arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S:210
> > LR is at vsnprintf+0x378/0x408 lib/vsprintf.c:2862
> > pc : [<80200a74>] lr : [<817ad5d8>] psr: 00000193
> > sp : df804028 ip : df805868 fp : df805864
> > r10: 00000060 r9 : ffffffff r8 : 00000010
> > r7 : 00000020 r6 : 00000004 r5 : ffffffff r4 : df805960
> > r3 : ffffffff r2 : 00000040 r1 : ffffffff r0 : 8264d250
> > Flags: nzcv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
> > Control: 30c5387d Table: 80003000 DAC: 00000000
> > Register r0 information:
> > 8<--- cut here ---
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000001ff when read
> > [000001ff] *pgd=80000080004003, *pmd=00000000
> > Internal error: Oops: 206 [#3] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> > Modules linked in:
> > CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.3.0-syzkaller #0
> > Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
> > PC is at __find_vmap_area mm/vmalloc.c:841 [inline]
> > PC is at find_vmap_area mm/vmalloc.c:1862 [inline]
> > PC is at find_vm_area mm/vmalloc.c:2571 [inline]
> > PC is at vmalloc_dump_obj+0x38/0xb4 mm/vmalloc.c:4108
> > LR is at __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
> > LR is at _raw_spin_lock+0x18/0x58 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:154
>
> Not sure if I can make sense out of this.

+linux-arm-kernel@

I suspect this is some recent arch/arm related corruption.
There are also these similar boot crashes that started happening at
roughly the same time:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=4d697346183db2f86ba2f76acb7d66e7731f88df
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=dcd98d67539fe4d0d28d2e655e510569eda6f4de