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WARNING in do_symlinkat

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/23 00:31
Reported-by: syzbot+80f3ff4f779933fea398@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 9d06h, last: 9d06h
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 WARNING in do_symlinkat (4) -1 1 45d 45d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/12/17 20:29
linux-6.1 WARNING in do_symlinkat -1 2 845d 876d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/17 15:16
linux-5.15 WARNING in do_symlinkat (2) origin:lts-only -1 syz inconclusive 4 805d 852d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/05 04:07
linux-6.1 WARNING in do_symlinkat (3) -1 2 275d 356d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/09 17:08
linux-6.1 WARNING in do_symlinkat (2) -1 4 470d 577d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/27 06:22
linux-5.15 WARNING in do_symlinkat -1 1 976d 976d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/09 00:28
upstream WARNING in do_symlinkat ntfs3 -1 C error done 66 972d 1137d 22/29 fixed on 2023/06/08 14:41
upstream WARNING in do_symlinkat (2) ntfs3 -1 C error unreliable 88 4d12h 896d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/08/19 10:47

Sample crash report:
DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON((rwsem_owner(sem) != current) && !rwsem_test_oflags(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE)): count = 0x0, magic = 0xffff888077e69bd0, owner = 0x0, curr 0xffff88802d9a3c00, list empty
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6663 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1370 __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1369 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6663 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1370 up_write+0x393/0x410 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1626
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 6663 Comm: syz.3.154 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:__up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1369 [inline]
RIP: 0010:up_write+0x393/0x410 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1626
Code: 44 d0 48 c7 c7 a0 bc ca 8a 48 c7 c6 e0 be ca 8a 48 8b 14 24 4c 89 f1 4d 89 e0 4c 8b 4c 24 08 41 52 e8 71 43 e9 ff 48 83 c4 08 <0f> 0b e9 7d fd ff ff 48 c7 c1 b0 0e 8b 8e 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000bd37df0 EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: 7400976bad529a00 RBX: ffff888077e69bd0 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc900107b3000 RSI: 0000000000022e14 RDI: 0000000000022e15
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffc9000bd379e7 R09: 1ffff920017a6f3c
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520017a6f3d R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888077e69c28 R14: ffff888077e69bd0 R15: 1ffff1100efcd37b
FS:  00007f240939a6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f24085e8400 CR3: 000000005cc1f000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:809 [inline]
 done_path_create fs/namei.c:3941 [inline]
 do_symlinkat+0x1fa/0x400 fs/namei.c:4509
 __do_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4528 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4526 [inline]
 __x64_sys_symlink+0x7e/0x90 fs/namei.c:4526
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f240859acb9
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:00007f240939a028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000058
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2408816270 RCX: 00007f240859acb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000001300 RDI: 00002000000012c0
RBP: 00007f2408608bf7 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2408816308 R14: 00007f2408816270 R15: 00007fff19a12208
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/23 00:31 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 82c9c083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in do_symlinkat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.