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

From: Russell King (Oracle)
Date: Wed May 03 2023 - 06:34:54 EST


On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 08:37:15AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 18:43, syzbot
> <syzbot+0827f43974813b74e6db@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzbot found the following issue on:
> >
> > HEAD commit: 89d77f71f493 Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.4-mw1' of git://..
> > git tree: upstream
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1113550c280000
> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=4cc65ccad523b604
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0827f43974813b74e6db
> > compiler: arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
> > userspace arch: arm
> >
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+0827f43974813b74e6db@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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>
> Kernel started falling apart on arm during boot in various strange ways.

Are these all the same hardware platform? If so, please check the
hardware with a known working kernel. These look like spurious failts
caused possibly the hardware platform failing.

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