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

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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:49:28 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     syzbot <syzbot+d692037148a8169fc9dd@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc:     alex.gaynor@...il.com, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, gary@...yguo.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...musvillemoes.dk,
        ojeda@...nel.org, pmladek@...e.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, senozhatsky@...omium.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, wedsonaf@...il.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] upstream boot error: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL
 pointer dereference in __dabt_svc

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.