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general protection fault in filename_create (2)

Status: premoderation: reported C repro on 2025/09/27 02:54
Bug presence: origin:downstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+4cf75fc77f73d9c04b42@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 126d, last: 6d07h
Bug presence (3)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/09/27 android16-6.12 (ToT) e34340c0d860 C [report] general protection fault in filename_create
2025/09/27 lts (merge base) b0c51e95f54e C Didn't crash
2025/09/27 upstream (ToT) fec734e8d564 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 general protection fault in filename_create origin:downstream 2 C done 34 2d03h 910d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/08/05 10:34
android-5-15 general protection fault in filename_create origin:downstream 2 C error unreliable 40 2d07h 1007d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/04/29 15:06
android-5-10 general protection fault in filename_create 2 C 112 6d05h 881d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/09/02 15:10
android-6-12 general protection fault in filename_create 2 1 216d 216d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/26 14:56
upstream BUG: corrupted list in filename_create fs 8 1 79d 75d 0/29 moderation: reported on 2025/11/16 19:13
Last patch testing requests (5)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/01/12 01:23 3m retest repro android16-6.12 error
2026/01/12 01:23 7m retest repro android16-6.12 error
2025/12/06 14:53 4m retest repro android16-6.12 error
2025/11/02 08:05 3m retest repro android16-6.12 error
2025/11/02 08:05 5m retest repro android16-6.12 error

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 384 Comm: syz.2.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 ad62f380a7f2f1545e15d1dbb2af73c398067985
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:__d_entry_type include/linux/dcache.h:415 [inline]
RIP: 0010:d_is_miss include/linux/dcache.h:420 [inline]
RIP: 0010:d_is_negative include/linux/dcache.h:466 [inline]
RIP: 0010:d_is_positive include/linux/dcache.h:476 [inline]
RIP: 0010:filename_create+0x2b3/0x480 fs/namei.c:4041
Code: 89 de e8 60 e4 99 ff 85 db 0f 84 8d 00 00 00 e8 13 e0 99 ff 48 8b 5c 24 20 4c 8b 74 24 18 e9 a4 00 00 00 48 89 c1 48 c1 e9 03 <42> 0f b6 0c 21 84 c9 0f 85 93 01 00 00 44 8b 20 44 89 e6 81 e6 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900011afd20 EFLAGS: 00010207
RAX: 000000000000001f RBX: 1ffff92000235fcd RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff88811167ad40
RBP: ffffc900011afdf0 R08: ffff8881f6f50bc7 R09: 1ffff1103edea178
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed103edea179 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffc900011afe68 R14: 0000000000000600 R15: 000000000000001f
FS:  00007fd029b2d6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000020000000afe0 CR3: 0000000104700000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 do_mknodat+0x18d/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:4180
 __do_sys_mknod fs/namei.c:4226 [inline]
 __se_sys_mknod fs/namei.c:4224 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mknod+0x90/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4224
 x64_sys_call+0x2a40/0x2ee0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:134
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x57/0xf0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fd028b9acb9
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:00007fd029b2d028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000085
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd028e15fa0 RCX: 00007fd028b9acb9
RDX: 0000000000000704 RSI: 0000000000000200 RDI: 00002000000002c0
RBP: 00007fd028c08bf7 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fd028e16038 R14: 00007fd028e15fa0 R15: 00007fff22073b88
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__d_entry_type include/linux/dcache.h:415 [inline]
RIP: 0010:d_is_miss include/linux/dcache.h:420 [inline]
RIP: 0010:d_is_negative include/linux/dcache.h:466 [inline]
RIP: 0010:d_is_positive include/linux/dcache.h:476 [inline]
RIP: 0010:filename_create+0x2b3/0x480 fs/namei.c:4041
Code: 89 de e8 60 e4 99 ff 85 db 0f 84 8d 00 00 00 e8 13 e0 99 ff 48 8b 5c 24 20 4c 8b 74 24 18 e9 a4 00 00 00 48 89 c1 48 c1 e9 03 <42> 0f b6 0c 21 84 c9 0f 85 93 01 00 00 44 8b 20 44 89 e6 81 e6 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900011afd20 EFLAGS: 00010207
RAX: 000000000000001f RBX: 1ffff92000235fcd RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff88811167ad40
RBP: ffffc900011afdf0 R08: ffff8881f6f50bc7 R09: 1ffff1103edea178
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed103edea179 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffc900011afe68 R14: 0000000000000600 R15: 000000000000001f
FS:  00007fd029b2d6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fd028be8400 CR3: 0000000104700000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	89 de                	mov    %ebx,%esi
   2:	e8 60 e4 99 ff       	call   0xff99e467
   7:	85 db                	test   %ebx,%ebx
   9:	0f 84 8d 00 00 00    	je     0x9c
   f:	e8 13 e0 99 ff       	call   0xff99e027
  14:	48 8b 5c 24 20       	mov    0x20(%rsp),%rbx
  19:	4c 8b 74 24 18       	mov    0x18(%rsp),%r14
  1e:	e9 a4 00 00 00       	jmp    0xc7
  23:	48 89 c1             	mov    %rax,%rcx
  26:	48 c1 e9 03          	shr    $0x3,%rcx
* 2a:	42 0f b6 0c 21       	movzbl (%rcx,%r12,1),%ecx <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	84 c9                	test   %cl,%cl
  31:	0f 85 93 01 00 00    	jne    0x1ca
  37:	44 8b 20             	mov    (%rax),%r12d
  3a:	44 89 e6             	mov    %r12d,%esi
  3d:	81                   	.byte 0x81
  3e:	e6 00                	out    %al,$0x0

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/22 20:29 android16-6.12 da606bc67c00 82c9c083 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2025/09/27 04:50 android16-6.12 e34340c0d860 001c9061 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2025/09/27 04:11 android16-6.12 e34340c0d860 001c9061 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2025/09/27 03:33 android16-6.12 e34340c0d860 001c9061 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2026/01/25 06:15 android16-6.12 83c6be0e1efe 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2026/01/22 19:32 android16-6.12 da606bc67c00 82c9c083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2025/10/19 05:03 android16-6.12 285c84322cb6 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2025/10/17 07:55 android16-6.12 ab30be3dcaff 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2025/10/07 18:15 android16-6.12 9f1850d39f56 8ef35d49 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
2025/09/27 02:53 android16-6.12 e34340c0d860 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust general protection fault in filename_create
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.