general protection fault in try_to_wake_up (5)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/09/02 12:53
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+a8cff47a788a847f670a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d03h, last: 4d03h
✨ AI Jobs (3)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
f89061ed repro-c 🏃 general protection fault in try_to_wake_up (5) 2026/09/02 14:12 2026/09/02 14:12 9941e97d
91241a29 assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in try_to_wake_up (5) 2026/09/02 00:45 2026/09/02 00:45 2026/09/02 00:46 587f6b29
e475680b assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in try_to_wake_up (5) 2026/08/31 00:57 2026/08/31 00:57 2026/08/31 01:50 2f52988a
Similar bugs (15)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in try_to_wake_up (2) io-uring 19 syz, C done done 3588 775d 2014d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2024/07/25 16:29
upstream general protection fault in try_to_wake_up (4) prio:high kernel 2 1 125d 121d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/29 01:52
upstream general protection fault in try_to_wake_up (3) kernel 2 syz 23 345d 364d 29/29 fixed on 2025/10/29 21:02
linux-4.14 general protection fault in try_to_wake_up 2 syz, C done 707 1965d 1994d 1/1 fixed on 2021/05/17 08:49
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in try_to_wake_up fs 19 syz, C unreliable 82 2014d 2014d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2021/02/25 16:53
upstream WARNING: locking bug in try_to_wake_up kernel 19 syz, C error 157 659d 839d 28/29 fixed on 2024/11/12 23:31
linux-4.19 general protection fault in try_to_wake_up 2 syz done 229 1907d 1994d 1/1 fixed on 2021/07/14 00:01
upstream general protection fault in try_to_wake_up kernel 2 syz 1 3083d 3079d 5/29 fixed on 2018/04/06 16:37
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in try_to_wake_up (2) net 19 syz, C error 31 560d 645d 28/29 fixed on 2025/05/06 15:33
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in try_to_wake_up 19 syz, C done 71 713d 1168d 3/3 fixed on 2024/10/21 12:01
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in try_to_wake_up nilfs2 19 syz, C 8 1281d 1403d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/10/30 09:08
upstream WARNING: locking bug in try_to_wake_up (2) net 4 syz error error 154 447d 654d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/21 02:28
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in try_to_wake_up origin:upstream missing-backport 19 syz, C done 44 817d 1248d 3/3 fixed on 2024/07/22 09:08
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in try_to_wake_up (2) 19 3 602d 635d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/18 01:07
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in try_to_wake_up (2) 19 2 727d 758d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/14 10:22

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000160: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000b00-0x0000000000000b07]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 29 Comm: ktimers/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x12/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
Code: 79 ff ff ff 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 c1 ef 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <0f> b6 04 07 3c 08 0f 92 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc cc 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a3f8f8 EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff8b58d998 RCX: 8000000000010003
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b58d998 RDI: 0000000000000160
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f63b70 R12: 0000000000000b00
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000b00 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125cd6000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f02e2535ff8 CR3: 00000000645d2000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __kasan_check_byte+0x12/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:573
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x7d/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5882
 __raw_spin_lock_irq_disable include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:174 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irq_disable+0x78/0x90 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:197
 class_raw_spinlock_irqsave_constructor include/linux/spinlock.h:595 [inline]
 try_to_wake_up+0x63/0x1430 kernel/sched/core.c:4302
 call_timer_fn+0x18d/0x5f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2374 [inline]
 __run_timer_base+0x67b/0x9b0 kernel/time/timer.c:2386
 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2395 [inline]
 run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2405
 handle_softirqs+0x1da/0x6d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
 run_ktimerd+0x6a/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:1183
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x565/0xa70 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x12/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
Code: 79 ff ff ff 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 c1 ef 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <0f> b6 04 07 3c 08 0f 92 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc cc 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a3f8f8 EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff8b58d998 RCX: 8000000000010003
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b58d998 RDI: 0000000000000160
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f63b70 R12: 0000000000000b00
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000b00 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125cd6000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f02e2535ff8 CR3: 00000000645d2000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess), 4 bytes skipped:
   0:	0f 1f 40 00          	nopl   0x0(%rax)
   4:	90                   	nop
   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:	0f 1f 40 d6          	nopl   -0x2a(%rax)
  18:	48 c1 ef 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdi
  1c:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  23:	fc ff df
* 26:	0f b6 04 07          	movzbl (%rdi,%rax,1),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2a:	3c 08                	cmp    $0x8,%al
  2c:	0f 92 c0             	setb   %al
  2f:	c3                   	ret
  30:	cc                   	int3
  31:	cc                   	int3
  32:	cc                   	int3
  33:	cc                   	int3
  34:	cc                   	int3
  35:	66                   	data16
  36:	66                   	data16
  37:	66                   	data16
  38:	66                   	data16
  39:	66                   	data16
  3a:	66                   	data16
  3b:	2e                   	cs

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/29 12:47 upstream cf72cbb39da8 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in try_to_wake_up
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.