WARNING in filename_symlinkat

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/05 06:39
Subsystems: gfs2 exfat
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+2ed46b6b748df855347f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 247d, last: 53d
▶ ▼ ✨ AI Jobs (5)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
0b21a9a8 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ WARNING in filename_symlinkat 2026/05/18 09:39 2026/05/18 09:39 2026/05/18 10:46 55156e84
89455936 patching 💥 WARNING in filename_symlinkat 2026/03/24 19:04 2026/03/24 19:04 2026/03/24 19:32 b4723e5f
cba78593 repro ❓ WARNING in filename_symlinkat 2026/03/06 06:48 2026/03/06 07:00 2026/03/06 07:00 31e9c887
b4cbec6e repro ❓ WARNING in filename_symlinkat 2026/03/06 06:48 2026/03/06 06:51 2026/03/06 07:00 31e9c887
564ef15d repro 💥 WARNING in filename_symlinkat 2026/03/05 20:21 2026/03/05 20:21 2026/03/05 20:37 31e9c887
▶ ▼ Discussions (4)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[syzbot] Monthly gfs2 report (Aug 2026) 0 (1) 2026/08/25 12:32
[syzbot] Monthly exfat report (Apr 2026) 0 (1) 2026/04/15 12:39
[syzbot] Monthly exfat report (Mar 2026) 0 (1) 2026/03/16 10:43
[syzbot] [exfat?] [gfs2?] WARNING in filename_symlinkat 0 (11) 2026/03/06 13:12
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (14)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/10/15 11:00 24m retest repro upstream no crash job log log
2026/08/06 09:20 20m retest repro upstream error
2026/05/28 08:08 21m retest repro upstream error
2026/03/19 07:00 18m retest repro upstream error
2026/03/06 13:12 29m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 12:38 27m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 10:41 23m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 09:57 28m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 09:16 28m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 08:25 28m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 07:51 24m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 06:25 22m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 05:22 25m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/03/06 04:38 18m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log

Sample crash report:
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DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(rt_mutex_owner(lock) != current)
WARNING: kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:193 at debug_rt_mutex_unlock kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:193 [inline], CPU#0: syz.1.759/14317
WARNING: kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:193 at rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x734/0xa30 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1432, CPU#0: syz.1.759/14317
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14317 Comm: syz.1.759 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:debug_rt_mutex_unlock kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:193 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x73b/0xa30 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1432
Code: b1 8f 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 0f 85 cf 02 00 00 83 3d 89 30 5f 04 00 75 13 48 8d 3d 2c 1d 62 04 48 c7 c6 20 17 6d 8b <67> 48 0f b9 3a 90 e9 cf f9 ff ff 48 8d 3d 23 1d 62 04 67 48 0f b9
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000599fce0 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880637f7688 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc900130d8000 RSI: ffffffff8b6d1720 RDI: ffffffff8fb46d20
RBP: ffffc9000599fdd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f6300f R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff92000b33fa4 R14: ffff8880637f7638 R15: 0000000000000246
FS:  00007fcbf55f56c0(0000) GS:ffff888125bf4000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffc2990afd0 CR3: 0000000033300000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:1035 [inline]
 end_dirop fs/namei.c:2955 [inline]
 end_creating include/linux/namei.h:120 [inline]
 end_creating_path fs/namei.c:5132 [inline]
 filename_symlinkat+0x222/0x420 fs/namei.c:5821
 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:5839 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlinkat+0x4e/0x2b0 fs/namei.c:5834
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fcbf73be0d9
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:00007fcbf55f5028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000010a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fcbf7646090 RCX: 00007fcbf73be0d9
RDX: 0000200000000180 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000200000000080
RBP: 00007fcbf7455024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fcbf7646128 R14: 00007fcbf7646090 R15: 00007ffc7f509558
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	b1 8f                	mov    $0x8f,%cl
   2:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
   6:	42 0f b6 04 20       	movzbl (%rax,%r12,1),%eax
   b:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
   d:	0f 85 cf 02 00 00    	jne    0x2e2
  13:	83 3d 89 30 5f 04 00 	cmpl   $0x0,0x45f3089(%rip)        # 0x45f30a3
  1a:	75 13                	jne    0x2f
  1c:	48 8d 3d 2c 1d 62 04 	lea    0x4621d2c(%rip),%rdi        # 0x4621d4f
  23:	48 c7 c6 20 17 6d 8b 	mov    $0xffffffff8b6d1720,%rsi
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	90                   	nop
  30:	e9 cf f9 ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffa04
  35:	48 8d 3d 23 1d 62 04 	lea    0x4621d23(%rip),%rdi        # 0x4621d5f
  3c:	67                   	addr32
  3d:	48                   	rex.W
  3e:	0f                   	.byte 0xf
  3f:	b9                   	.byte 0xb9

Crashes (14):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/23 09:12 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/04/21 06:43 upstream c1f49dea2b8f 3f2e655b .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/04/10 01:15 upstream a55f7f5f29b3 38c8e246 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/04/07 17:40 upstream bfe62a454542 628666c6 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/04/07 15:54 upstream bfe62a454542 628666c6 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/04/05 10:00 upstream 3aae9383f42f 4440e7c2 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/03/26 20:18 upstream 0138af2472df 4b3d9a38 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/03/24 09:05 upstream c369299895a5 baf8bf12 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/03/23 17:48 upstream c369299895a5 4933dba2 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/03/05 06:38 upstream ecc64d2dc9ff a9fe5c9e .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/03/05 04:01 upstream ecc64d2dc9ff a9fe5c9e .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/02/26 20:37 upstream f4d0ec0aa20d ffa54287 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/02/16 23:17 upstream 0f2acd3148e0 5d52cba5 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
2026/02/10 15:10 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in filename_symlinkat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.