WARNING in __media_pipeline_start

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/06 00:01
Subsystems: media
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+68e901d044baaea1f60c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 13d, last: 1d11h
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db55a55d assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in __media_pipeline_start 2026/08/09 22:06 2026/08/09 22:06 2026/08/09 22:09 5d63f80b
61aae20e assessment-security 💥 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start 2026/08/05 00:08 2026/08/05 00:08 2026/08/05 00:08 d4abbeac
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[syzbot] [media?] WARNING in __media_pipeline_start 0 (1) 2026/08/06 00:01

Sample crash report:
origin->pipe && origin->pipe != pipe
WARNING: drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:785 at __media_pipeline_start+0x1add/0x22b0 drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:785, CPU#1: syz.0.17/5912
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5912 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__media_pipeline_start+0x1add/0x22b0 drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:785
Code: 93 f7 f9 66 90 41 bc f0 ff ff ff e9 5d f9 ff ff e8 68 93 f7 f9 48 8b 7c 24 10 e8 3e 06 5c fa e9 75 f2 ff ff e8 54 93 f7 f9 90 <0f> 0b 90 41 bc ea ff ff ff e9 a7 e6 ff ff e8 40 22 68 fa e9 a5 f4
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003af79b0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88802efeca10 RCX: ffffffff8812d136
RDX: ffff888029c12540 RSI: ffffffff8812e02c RDI: ffff88802f04ab00
RBP: ffff88802e814168 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88802f04aa10
R13: ffff88802f04a020 R14: ffff88802f04a750 R15: ffff88802f04aac8
FS:  000055556cdf4500(0000) GS:ffff8880d5cde000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000007100 CR3: 000000002b8a9000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 media_pipeline_start+0x49/0x70 drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:924
 video_device_pipeline_start+0x79/0xa0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:1159
 vimc_capture_start_streaming+0x7d/0x130 drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-capture.c:248
 vb2_start_streaming+0x162/0x570 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1783
 vb2_core_streamon+0x26a/0x3c0 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2336
 vb2_streamon drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:875 [inline]
 vb2_ioctl_streamon+0xd9/0x150 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:1118
 __video_do_ioctl+0xb2a/0xdf0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3133
 video_usercopy+0x47a/0x1730 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3475
 v4l2_ioctl+0x1bd/0x250 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 fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fc3ad39e0d9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe3e9af7a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fc3ad625fa0 RCX: 00007fc3ad39e0d9
RDX: 0000200000007200 RSI: 0000000040045612 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007fc3ad435024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fc3ad625fac R14: 00007fc3ad625fa0 R15: 00007fc3ad625fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/16 04:41 upstream 3eb40771c00a 746171ee .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/05 01:51 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 23:48 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 21:34 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 18:59 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 16:50 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/06 07:55 upstream 0d8395707651 cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/06 07:55 upstream 0d8395707651 cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/06 03:41 upstream 0d8395707651 cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 13:34 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
2026/08/04 13:33 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __media_pipeline_start
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.