general protection fault in usbtv_querycap

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/16 13:57
Subsystems: media
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+37a57a84893052ab6071@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 20d, last: 2d00h
✨ AI Patch Versions (2)
Version Stage Reported Report Link Job
1 upstream 2026/08/17 14:09 Discussion 5abbe65a-5853-4bc2-9135-5c75f88d51ed
1 moderation 2026/08/16 23:09 Discussion 5abbe65a-5853-4bc2-9135-5c75f88d51ed
✨ AI Jobs (7)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
9c323bc0 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ general protection fault in usbtv_querycap 2026/08/18 00:40 2026/08/18 00:40 2026/08/18 01:22 1e72964b
5abbe65a patching general protection fault in usbtv_querycap 2026/08/16 20:03 2026/08/16 21:46 2026/08/16 23:08 746171ee
52dfd249 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ general protection fault in usbtv_querycap 2026/08/15 11:45 2026/08/15 11:45 2026/08/15 15:26 746171ee
8aac35c9 assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in usbtv_querycap 2026/08/09 11:58 2026/08/09 11:58 2026/08/09 11:58 5d63f80b
0d1a66f6 assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in usbtv_querycap 2026/08/05 00:07 2026/08/05 00:07 2026/08/05 00:07 d4abbeac
2b870755 assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in usbtv_querycap 2026/08/02 01:38 2026/08/02 01:38 2026/08/02 01:38 e611ffe1
ad282ab7 assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in usbtv_querycap 2026/07/31 02:04 2026/07/31 02:04 2026/07/31 02:04 aaffb173
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] media: usbtv: fix null-pointer dereference on disconnect 1 (1) 2026/08/17 14:09
[syzbot] [media?] general protection fault in usbtv_querycap 0 (1) 2026/08/16 13:57
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/16 13:29 21m nogikh@google.com upstream report job log log

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000a: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000050-0x0000000000000057]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5878 Comm: syz-executor121 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:usb_make_path include/linux/usb.h:985 [inline]
RIP: 0010:usbtv_querycap+0x9c/0x100 drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-video.c:612
Code: d9 f9 49 83 c6 08 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 42 3b d9 f9 4d 8b 36 4d 8d 7e 50 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 25 3b d9 f9 48 83 c3 30 4d 8b 3f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003757b10 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 000000000000000a RBX: ffffc90003757d60 RCX: 0000000074627375
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffffffff8cd143a0 RDI: ffffc90003757d70
RBP: 1ffff920006eafb6 R08: 0000000000767462 R09: 1ffff920006eafae
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520006eafaf R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888035e170d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000050
FS:  00007f7ef67fc6c0(0000) GS:ffff888125049000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055c7f8b42d51 CR3: 0000000071dc6000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 v4l_querycap+0x236/0x470 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:1106
 __video_do_ioctl+0x8af/0xc70 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3133
 video_usercopy+0x860/0x1430 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3475
 v4l2_ioctl+0x18d/0x1e0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:366
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f7efcf7300b
Code: 00 48 89 44 24 18 31 c0 48 8d 44 24 60 c7 04 24 10 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 08 48 8d 44 24 20 48 89 44 24 10 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <89> c2 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1c 48 8b 44 24 18 64 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007f7ef67fc120 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000080685600 RCX: 00007f7efcf7300b
RDX: 00007f7ef67fc190 RSI: 0000000080685600 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 0000000000000021 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007f7efcfe37e0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffffffffffffffd0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffc6b9d1890 R15: 00007ffc6b9d1978
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:usb_make_path include/linux/usb.h:985 [inline]
RIP: 0010:usbtv_querycap+0x9c/0x100 drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-video.c:612
Code: d9 f9 49 83 c6 08 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 42 3b d9 f9 4d 8b 36 4d 8d 7e 50 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 25 3b d9 f9 48 83 c3 30 4d 8b 3f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003757b10 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 000000000000000a RBX: ffffc90003757d60 RCX: 0000000074627375
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffffffff8cd143a0 RDI: ffffc90003757d70
RBP: 1ffff920006eafb6 R08: 0000000000767462 R09: 1ffff920006eafae
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520006eafaf R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888035e170d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000050
FS:  00007f7ef67fc6c0(0000) GS:ffff888125049000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055c7f8b42d51 CR3: 0000000071dc6000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	d9 f9                	fyl2xp1
   2:	49 83 c6 08          	add    $0x8,%r14
   6:	4c 89 f0             	mov    %r14,%rax
   9:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
   d:	42 80 3c 20 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r12,1)
  12:	74 08                	je     0x1c
  14:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
  17:	e8 42 3b d9 f9       	call   0xf9d93b5e
  1c:	4d 8b 36             	mov    (%r14),%r14
  1f:	4d 8d 7e 50          	lea    0x50(%r14),%r15
  23:	4c 89 f8             	mov    %r15,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 20 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r12,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	4c 89 ff             	mov    %r15,%rdi
  34:	e8 25 3b d9 f9       	call   0xf9d93b5e
  39:	48 83 c3 30          	add    $0x30,%rbx
  3d:	4d 8b 3f             	mov    (%r15),%r15

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/16 13:56 upstream 3eb40771c00a 19622d9d .config console log report C ci-upstream-kasan-gce general protection fault in usbtv_querycap
2026/07/29 10:47 upstream fc02acf6ac0c 19622d9d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 general protection fault in usbtv_querycap
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.