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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+558f67d44ad7f098a3de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	anna-maria@linutronix.de, frederic@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [kernel?] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in __hrtimer_run_queues
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:10:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mso0665f.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240604133448.GB20384@willie-the-truck>

Will!

On Tue, Jun 04 2024 at 14:34, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 02:29:57PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 03 2024 at 03:22, syzbot wrote:
>> > * 10:	f9400821 	ldr	x1, [x1, #16] <-- trapping instruction
>> 		while (node->rb_left)
>> 
>> > x2 : ff7000007f8cf8e8 x1 : 0000000000000080 x0 : 0000000000000080
>> 
>> which obviously crashes. Now the question is how does the original node
>> end up with node::rb_right == 0x80?
>> 
>> I doubt that this is a hrtimer or rbtree problem. It smells like random
>> data corruption caused by whatever. It might not even be an ARM64
>> specific issue though the C repro does not trigger on x86...
>> 
>> Handing it over to Catalin and Will.
>
> I suspect this is a duplicate of:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240604110119.GA20284@willie-the-truck/
>
> and there's a fix queued in the -mm tree.

That looks very much so.

Thanks,

        tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-04 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-03 10:22 [syzbot] [kernel?] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in __hrtimer_run_queues syzbot
2024-06-03 11:04 ` Hillf Danton
2024-06-04 12:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-06-04 13:34   ` Will Deacon
2024-06-04 16:10     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2024-06-04 12:45 ` Hillf Danton
2024-06-04 13:30   ` syzbot

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