general protection fault in vfs_rename

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/15 16:52
Bug presence: origin:downstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+a80f1dcaba9e162cda54@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1120d, last: 1d08h
▶ ▼ Bug presence (3)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2023/10/15 android13-5.15-lts (ToT) 754f8cc9b7de C [report] general protection fault in vfs_rename
2023/10/15 lts (merge base) 35ecaa3632bf C Didn't crash
2023/10/15 upstream (ToT) 11d3f7261395 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 syz, C inconclusive 46 12d 1120d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/15 16:27
android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename origin:downstream 2 syz, C done inconclusive 20 6d12h 1113d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/22 15:59
android-6-12 general protection fault in vfs_rename origin:downstream 2 syz, C 6 390d 501d 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 1369d 1371d 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
2026/10/21 13:45 9m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/10/21 13:45 8m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/10/21 13:45 8m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/10/21 13:45 8m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/09/23 21:05 9m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/08/24 12:56 10m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/08/24 12:56 11m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/08/24 12:56 11m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/08/24 12:56 15m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report job log log
2026/08/07 17:59 14m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
▶ ▼ Fix bisection attempts (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/07/22 09:12 1h27m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2026/06/22 02:51 1h00m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2025/12/18 01:32 1h29m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2025/02/25 06:27 1h47m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/11/16 09:10 47m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/05/03 11:56 2h05m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/02/23 23:57 35m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/01/15 03:05 33m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2023/12/15 11:40 38m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2023/11/14 21:58 53m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000007: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]
CPU: 1 PID: 307 Comm: syz-executor566 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/15/2026
RIP: 0010:vfs_rename+0x1ab/0x10e0 fs/namei.c:4729
Code: 30 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 68 e8 f4 ff 48 8b 1b 48 8b 44 24 30 48 8d 78 30 49 89 ff 49 c1 ef 03 <43> 80 3c 27 00 48 89 7c 24 50 74 0a e8 44 e8 f4 ff 48 8b 7c 24 50
RSP: 0018:ffffc900009d7b60 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 000000000000000f RBX: ffff888112a8d200 RCX: ffff88811dbd5000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 000000000000003f
RBP: ffffc900009d7cd0 R08: ffff888121878f3f R09: 1ffff1102430f1e7
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed102430f1e8 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888121893600 R14: ffffc900009d7dc0 R15: 0000000000000007
FS:  00007f26e85686c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000008000 CR3: 000000012239a000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 do_renameat2+0x965/0xfc0 fs/namei.c:4993
 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5039 [inline]
 __se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5037 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rename+0x86/0x90 fs/namei.c:5037
 x64_sys_call+0x680/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:83
 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: 0033:0x7f26e85c9279
Code: c0 79 93 eb d5 48 8d 7c 1d 00 eb 99 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 d0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f26e8568218 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f26e867eb88 RCX: 00007f26e85c9279
RDX: 00007f26e85b91fe RSI: 00002000000068c0 RDI: 0000200000006880
RBP: 00007f26e867eb80 R08: 00007f26e85686c0 R09: 33203a6b63617473
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f26e864a0dc
R13: 0000200000006900 R14: 00007ffd1dc7bd40 R15: 00007ffd1dc7be28
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 2e8df31dc6db71d7 ]---
RIP: 0010:vfs_rename+0x1ab/0x10e0 fs/namei.c:4729
Code: 30 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 68 e8 f4 ff 48 8b 1b 48 8b 44 24 30 48 8d 78 30 49 89 ff 49 c1 ef 03 <43> 80 3c 27 00 48 89 7c 24 50 74 0a e8 44 e8 f4 ff 48 8b 7c 24 50
RSP: 0018:ffffc900009d7b60 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 000000000000000f RBX: ffff888112a8d200 RCX: ffff88811dbd5000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 000000000000003f
RBP: ffffc900009d7cd0 R08: ffff888121878f3f R09: 1ffff1102430f1e7
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed102430f1e8 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888121893600 R14: ffffc900009d7dc0 R15: 0000000000000007
FS:  00007f26e85686c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000008000 CR3: 000000012239a000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
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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 68 e8 f4 ff       	call   0xfff4e87f
  17:	48 8b 1b             	mov    (%rbx),%rbx
  1a:	48 8b 44 24 30       	mov    0x30(%rsp),%rax
  1f:	48 8d 78 30          	lea    0x30(%rax),%rdi
  23:	49 89 ff             	mov    %rdi,%r15
  26:	49 c1 ef 03          	shr    $0x3,%r15
* 2a:	43 80 3c 27 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%r15,%r12,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	48 89 7c 24 50       	mov    %rdi,0x50(%rsp)
  34:	74 0a                	je     0x40
  36:	e8 44 e8 f4 ff       	call   0xfff4e87f
  3b:	48 8b 7c 24 50       	mov    0x50(%rsp),%rdi

Crashes (22):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/11/07 21:05 android13-5.15-lts 2316d138a3c3 5cecaf1f .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2026/05/23 00:39 android13-5.15-lts 05eea940894a 5f091fcc .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2026/05/22 23:20 android13-5.15-lts 05eea940894a 5f091fcc .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2026/03/24 07:42 android13-5.15-lts 60dba25bf158 baf8bf12 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2026/01/13 01:45 android13-5.15-lts 050dc55b0457 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/10/29 20:15 android13-5.15-lts 1edb21e89ce4 fd2207e7 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/07/09 18:34 android13-5.15-lts 32c443bd6d40 f4e5e155 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/12/07 11:18 android13-5.15-lts 431fb5556be3 9ac0fdc6 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/03/19 14:11 android13-5.15-lts 993bed180178 e104824c .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2023/10/15 16:50 android13-5.15-lts 754f8cc9b7de f757a323 .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2026/02/01 22:57 android13-5.15-lts 7e1070528954 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2026/01/20 01:50 android13-5.15-lts 050dc55b0457 572effc1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/09/29 08:05 android13-5.15-lts 8d934e0056f7 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/08/19 12:15 android13-5.15-lts 29d153aabd54 9f0ab3fb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/08/19 07:14 android13-5.15-lts da92e689a0c3 dbc93b08 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/08/07 16:15 android13-5.15-lts 70e1a731d986 109d2082 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/08/01 22:51 android13-5.15-lts 70e1a731d986 1e9c4cf3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/08/01 08:21 android13-5.15-lts 70e1a731d986 1e9c4cf3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/06/27 23:04 android13-5.15-lts 9044d25b8ff5 6ef39602 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/06/27 23:04 android13-5.15-lts 9044d25b8ff5 6ef39602 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/05/27 16:44 android13-5.15-lts 424f92bcbe8f 761766e6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/05/27 07:13 android13-5.15-lts 424f92bcbe8f a10a183e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.