WARNING in create_strip_zones

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/10/23 17:23
Reported-by: syzbot+04129522de1fbafd9ca4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d03h, last: 6d03h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in create_strip_zones (2) prio:low raid -1 C 28 4d14h 58d 2/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/01 19:58
upstream WARNING in create_strip_zones mm -1 5 238d 235d 29/29 fixed on 2026/05/21 07:50
linux-5.15 WARNING in create_strip_zones -1 1 239d 239d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/12 19:29

Sample crash report:
block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4590 at mm/page_alloc.c:5634 __alloc_pages+0xd0/0x544 mm/page_alloc.c:5634
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 4590 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/14/2026
pstate: 22400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __alloc_pages+0xd0/0x544 mm/page_alloc.c:5634
lr : __alloc_pages+0xac/0x544 mm/page_alloc.c:5628
sp : ffff800022787320
x29: ffff8000227873f0 x28: ffff0000d23b7000 x27: ffff0000d2024200
x26: ffff800022787340 x25: dfff800000000000 x24: ffff7000044f0e68
x23: ffff0000d2024210 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: 0000000000040dc0
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000034 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000001000 x16: ffff800011bcec98 x15: ffff800008a03020
x14: 0000000000000005 x13: 1ffff000044f0e6c x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffff7000044f0e71 x9 : 0000000000000001
x8 : ffff800018dfc000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff80000805a7f8
x5 : 00000000ffffffff x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000020
x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 __alloc_pages+0xd0/0x544 mm/page_alloc.c:5634
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:237 [inline]
 alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_large_node+0x9c/0x1dc mm/slab_common.c:1077
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:924 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x12c/0x180 mm/slab_common.c:949
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 create_strip_zones+0x808/0x19bc drivers/md/raid0.c:145
 raid0_run+0x2a4/0xc00 drivers/md/raid0.c:396
 md_run+0xe14/0x1de0 drivers/md/md.c:6027
 do_md_run+0x4c/0x4a4 drivers/md/md.c:6159
 md_ioctl+0x1ffc/0x25cc drivers/md/md.c:7822
 blkdev_ioctl+0x654/0xb74 block/ioctl.c:626
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x14c/0x1c8 fs/ioctl.c:856
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x290 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
 el0_svc_common+0x13c/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 do_el0_svc+0x5c/0x134 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:204
 el0_svc+0x58/0x12c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655
 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:585
irq event stamp: 2486
hardirqs last  enabled at (2485): [<ffff800011cb62cc>] __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:151 [inline]
hardirqs last  enabled at (2485): [<ffff800011cb62cc>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x48/0xac kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
hardirqs last disabled at (2486): [<ffff800011bcadc0>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:405
softirqs last  enabled at (2314): [<ffff800008031254>] local_bh_enable+0x10/0x34 include/linux/bottom_half.h:32
softirqs last disabled at (2312): [<ffff800008031220>] local_bh_disable+0x10/0x34 include/linux/bottom_half.h:19
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md: pers->run() failed ...

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/23 18:05 linux-6.1.y 79807e970724 d566bfda .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 WARNING in create_strip_zones
2026/10/23 17:44 linux-6.1.y 79807e970724 d566bfda .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 WARNING in create_strip_zones
2026/10/23 17:24 linux-6.1.y 79807e970724 d566bfda .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 WARNING in create_strip_zones
2026/10/23 17:22 linux-6.1.y 79807e970724 d566bfda .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 WARNING in create_strip_zones
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.