linux-kernel - [syzbot] [bcachefs?] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in bch2_btree_update

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Message-ID: <684c565b.a00a0220.279073.0014.GAE@google.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:48:27 -0700
From: syzbot <syzbot+2f3859bd28f20fa682e6@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
To: kent.overstreet@...ux.dev, linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: [syzbot] [bcachefs?] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
 dereference in bch2_btree_update_start

Hello,

syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit:    19272b37aa4f Linux 6.16-rc1
git tree:       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=11a7f682580000
kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=8409c4d4e51ac27
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2f3859bd28f20fa682e6
compiler:       Debian clang version 20.1.6 (++20250514063057+1e4d39e07757-1~exp1~20250514183223.118), Debian LLD 20.1.6
userspace arch: arm64

Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.

Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/92d22b0c6493/disk-19272b37.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/3fb0142bb63a/vmlinux-19272b37.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/3d5f3836ae42/Image-19272b37.gz.xz

IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+2f3859bd28f20fa682e6@...kaller.appspotmail.com

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000086000006
  EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000014106a000
[0000000000000000] pgd=0800000128c8b403, p4d=0800000128c8b403, pud=0800000132b39403, pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000006 [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7230 Comm: syz.5.20 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1-syzkaller-g19272b37aa4f #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : 0x0
lr : mempool_alloc_noprof+0x150/0x3f4 mm/mempool.c:402
sp : ffff80009dc06c80
x29: ffff80009dc06d80 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 1fffe0001ee507df
x26: 0000000000092800 x25: ffff700013b80d9c x24: ffff0000f7283ef0
x23: 0000000000092c40 x22: ffff0000f7283ef8 x21: 0000000000000400
x20: 1fffe0001ee507de x19: ffff0000f7283ea0 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: ffff800093215000 x16: ffff80008051b344 x15: ffff800092d9eb80
x14: ffff0000c4812910 x13: ffff800093014c08 x12: ffff0000c4812930
x11: 0000000000008004 x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : ffff800080b774a8 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000020 x4 : ffff80009dc06a20 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000092800
Call trace:
 0x0 (P)
 bch2_btree_update_start+0x488/0x1398 fs/bcachefs/btree_update_interior.c:1212
 bch2_btree_node_rewrite+0x190/0xd34 fs/bcachefs/btree_update_interior.c:2226
 bch2_move_btree+0x538/0xa8c fs/bcachefs/move.c:1145
 bch2_scan_old_btree_nodes+0x80/0x21c fs/bcachefs/move.c:1266
 bch2_data_job+0x570/0x7cc fs/bcachefs/move.c:1404
 bch2_data_thread+0xb4/0x1cc fs/bcachefs/chardev.c:315
 kthread+0x5fc/0x75c kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:847
Code: ???????? ???????? ???????? ???????? (????????) 
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---


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