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BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in path_openat

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/25 08:43
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+5db97d552bbbb3e5779d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d23h, last: 3d12h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/01/27 linux-5.15.y (ToT) 9eec9a14ee10 C [report] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in path_openat
2026/01/27 upstream (ToT) fcb70a56f4d8 C Didn't crash
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/01/27 06:20 1m fix candidate upstream error job log

Sample crash report:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 16
erofs: (device loop0): mounted with root inode @ nid 36.
erofs: (device loop0): z_erofs_readpage: failed to read, err [-95]
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at fs/dcache.c:877
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 4349, name: syz.0.17
1 lock held by syz.0.17/4349:
 #0: ffff88805a88c180 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:787 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805a88c180 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3537 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805a88c180 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: path_openat+0x803/0x2fa0 fs/namei.c:3747
Preemption disabled at:
[<ffffffff83990d27>] kmap_atomic include/linux/highmem-internal.h:196 [inline]
[<ffffffff83990d27>] z_erofs_reload_indexes+0x347/0x590 fs/erofs/zmap.c:146
CPU: 0 PID: 4349 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 ___might_sleep+0x493/0x610 kernel/sched/core.c:9658
 dput+0x26/0x1a0 fs/dcache.c:877
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3482 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3540 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1207/0x2fa0 fs/namei.c:3747
 do_filp_open+0x1e2/0x410 fs/namei.c:3777
 do_sys_openat2+0x150/0x4b0 fs/open.c:1255
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1271 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1287 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1282 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1282
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f7eaf497cb9
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:00007ffce35462b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7eaf712fa0 RCX: 00007f7eaf497cb9
RDX: 000000000000275a RSI: 00002000000001c0 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f7eaf505bf7 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7eaf712fac R14: 00007f7eaf712fa0 R15: 00007f7eaf712fa0
 </TASK>
BUG: scheduling while atomic: syz.0.17/4349/0x00000002
no locks held by syz.0.17/4349.
Modules linked in:
Preemption disabled at:
[<ffffffff83990d27>] kmap_atomic include/linux/highmem-internal.h:196 [inline]
[<ffffffff83990d27>] z_erofs_reload_indexes+0x347/0x590 fs/erofs/zmap.c:146

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/25 09:10 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 40acda8a .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in path_openat
2026/01/27 19:44 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in path_openat
2026/01/25 11:56 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in path_openat
2026/01/25 11:56 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in path_openat
2026/01/25 08:45 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in path_openat
2026/01/25 08:42 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in path_openat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.