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general protection fault in vfs_rename

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/22 15:59
Bug presence: origin:downstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+6322832df18f369c5366@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 831d, last: 8d10h
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit 57f3ff9648991998d008ecf32f2f9e78a08bfb8b
Author: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Date: Thu Dec 2 21:50:02 2021 +0000

  ANDROID: fuse-bpf v1.1

Crash: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in vfs_rename (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
Bug presence (3)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2023/10/22 android14-6.1 (ToT) 53771c1826da C [report] general protection fault in vfs_rename
2023/10/22 lts (merge base) b1644a0031cf C Didn't crash
2023/10/22 upstream (ToT) 1acfd2bd3f0d C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 general protection fault in vfs_rename 2 C inconclusive 34 4d16h 838d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/15 16:27
android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename origin:downstream 2 C 17 11d 838d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/15 16:52
android-6-12 general protection fault in vfs_rename origin:downstream 2 C 6 109d 220d 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2025/06/25 09:20
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vfs_rename overlayfs 8 6 1088d 1090d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/08 14:12
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/01/14 19:10 9m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/12/25 00:01 6m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/12/10 05:10 9m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/12/10 05:10 7m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/12/10 05:10 9m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/11/25 21:41 10m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/11/04 03:35 6m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/10/15 02:59 10m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/09/30 02:48 6m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/09/30 02:48 12m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
Fix bisection attempts (6)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2024/09/06 03:54 1h02m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2024/05/09 03:04 38m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2024/03/01 11:06 39m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2024/01/22 08:50 55m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2023/12/23 04:15 39m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2023/11/23 01:43 40m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000008: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]
CPU: 0 PID: 375 Comm: syz.2.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:vfs_rename+0x1b0/0x10f0 fs/namei.c:4770
Code: 30 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 13 af f3 ff 48 8b 1b 48 8b 44 24 30 4c 8d 70 30 4d 89 f7 49 c1 ef 03 <43> 80 3c 27 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 f1 ae f3 ff 48 89 5c 24 50 4c 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ab7b60 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 0000000000000015 RBX: ffff888123edd540 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88811415d100 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 0000000000200000
RBP: ffffc90000ab7cd0 R08: ffffc90000ab7bc7 R09: 1ffff92000156f78
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000156f79 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888123ee6200 R14: 0000000000000045 R15: 0000000000000008
FS:  00007fcd61ce36c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000020000000c000 CR3: 000000012cfda000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 do_renameat2+0x826/0xfd0 fs/namei.c:5034
 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5080 [inline]
 __se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5078 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rename+0x86/0x90 fs/namei.c:5078
 x64_sys_call+0x300/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:83
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fcd60d9acb9
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:00007fcd61ce3028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fcd61016180 RCX: 00007fcd60d9acb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000200000000280
RBP: 00007fcd60e08bf7 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fcd61016218 R14: 00007fcd61016180 R15: 00007ffea2449aa8
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:vfs_rename+0x1b0/0x10f0 fs/namei.c:4770
Code: 30 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 13 af f3 ff 48 8b 1b 48 8b 44 24 30 4c 8d 70 30 4d 89 f7 49 c1 ef 03 <43> 80 3c 27 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 f1 ae f3 ff 48 89 5c 24 50 4c 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ab7b60 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 0000000000000015 RBX: ffff888123edd540 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88811415d100 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 0000000000200000
RBP: ffffc90000ab7cd0 R08: ffffc90000ab7bc7 R09: 1ffff92000156f78
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000156f79 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888123ee6200 R14: 0000000000000045 R15: 0000000000000008
FS:  00007fcd61ce36c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fcd60de8400 CR3: 000000012cfda000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	30 48 89             	xor    %cl,-0x77(%rax)
   3:	d8 48 c1             	fmuls  -0x3f(%rax)
   6:	e8 03 42 80 3c       	call   0x3c80420e
   b:	20 00                	and    %al,(%rax)
   d:	74 08                	je     0x17
   f:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  12:	e8 13 af f3 ff       	call   0xfff3af2a
  17:	48 8b 1b             	mov    (%rbx),%rbx
  1a:	48 8b 44 24 30       	mov    0x30(%rsp),%rax
  1f:	4c 8d 70 30          	lea    0x30(%rax),%r14
  23:	4d 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%r15
  26:	49 c1 ef 03          	shr    $0x3,%r15
* 2a:	43 80 3c 27 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%r15,%r12,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
  34:	e8 f1 ae f3 ff       	call   0xfff3af2a
  39:	48 89 5c 24 50       	mov    %rbx,0x50(%rsp)
  3e:	4c                   	rex.WR
  3f:	89                   	.byte 0x89

Crashes (14):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/23 04:40 android14-6.1 d1c598f45d0f 82c9c083 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/11/11 20:31 android14-6.1 86676b1f0b19 4e1406b4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/07/06 19:03 android14-6.1 7011769d221c 4f67c4ae .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/04/19 11:39 android14-6.1 bc3d1d352ab6 2a20f901 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/11/25 06:51 android14-6.1 226e9f92a06c 68da6d95 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/03/21 04:06 android14-6.1 3f5807c586a6 5b7d42ae .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2023/10/22 15:58 android14-6.1 53771c1826da 361b23dc .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/04/19 11:03 android14-6.1 bc3d1d352ab6 2a20f901 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/06/27 23:02 android14-6.1 616650627d13 6ef39602 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/06/27 23:02 android14-6.1 616650627d13 6ef39602 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/05/27 16:46 android14-6.1 68c821783c76 761766e6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/05/27 16:45 android14-6.1 68c821783c76 761766e6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/03/25 07:06 android14-6.1 d518ca9dbbe9 0ea90952 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/03/21 03:43 android14-6.1 3f5807c586a6 5b7d42ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.