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memory leak in path_openat (3)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/13 01:28
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+2cd473471e77bda12b0e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 21h34m, last: 21h34m
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
e82fbda9-33e4-40f2-8dce-e4594e1e27c9 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ memory leak in path_openat (3) 2026/06/12 21:59 2026/06/12 21:59 2026/06/12 22:48 1d2f35898f2e0325486423250d5303b6bc05adcd
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[syzbot] [fs?] memory leak in path_openat (3) 0 (1) 2026/06/13 01:28
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream memory leak in path_openat fs 3 C 1 2358d 2354d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/03/07 22:28
upstream memory leak in path_openat (2) fs 3 C 5 916d 1942d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/18 09:36

Sample crash report:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810ac98000 (size 176):
  comm "syz.0.19", pid 5920, jiffies 4294944647
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 1b 00 0e 04 60 7e a7 85 ff ff ff ff  ........`~......
    70 15 3e 06 81 88 ff ff 80 61 3c 2b 81 88 ff ff  p.>......a<+....
  backtrace (crc df7849cb):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4575 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4899 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x36c/0x480 mm/slub.c:4906
    alloc_empty_file+0x57/0x180 fs/file_table.c:262
    path_openat+0x44/0x1e20 fs/namei.c:4844
    do_file_open+0x121/0x200 fs/namei.c:4887
    do_sys_openat2+0xa5/0x140 fs/open.c:1364
    do_sys_open fs/open.c:1370 [inline]
    __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1386 [inline]
    __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1381 [inline]
    __x64_sys_openat+0x82/0xf0 fs/open.c:1381
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xf8/0x610 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

connection error: failed to recv *flatrpc.ExecutorMessageRawT: EOF

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/12 21:59 upstream 2b414a95b8f7 1d2f3589 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-leak memory leak in path_openat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.