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WARNING in end_dirop

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/12/25 00:23
Subsystems: overlayfs
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Reported-by: syzbot+19b2d871b77d222db434@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 67d, last: 53m
Discussions (3)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[syzbot] Monthly overlayfs report (Jan 2026) 0 (1) 2026/01/28 12:41
[syzbot] Monthly overlayfs report (Dec 2025) 0 (1) 2025/12/28 08:47
[syzbot] [overlayfs?] WARNING in end_dirop 0 (1) 2025/12/25 00:23

Sample crash report:
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DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(rt_mutex_owner(lock) != current)
WARNING: kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:182 at debug_rt_mutex_unlock kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:182 [inline], CPU#1: syz.1.347/9270
WARNING: kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:182 at rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x6d9/0x8b0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1419, CPU#1: syz.1.347/9270
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9270 Comm: syz.1.347 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:debug_rt_mutex_unlock kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:182 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x6e0/0x8b0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1419
Code: 6a 8f 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 0f 85 c0 01 00 00 83 3d 64 b7 46 04 00 75 13 48 8d 3d 77 c3 49 04 48 c7 c6 20 e8 4c 8b <67> 48 0f b9 3a 90 e9 2a fa ff ff 90 0f 0b 90 e9 4c fe ff ff be 02
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003b8f4a0 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880610befb8 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9001461a000 RSI: ffffffff8b4ce820 RDI: ffffffff8f6d4800
RBP: ffffc90003b8f590 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1ed477d R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff92000771e9c R14: 0000000000000246 R15: ffff8880610bef68
FS:  00007f0ae1bfd6c0(0000) GS:ffff888126443000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f763dab5900 CR3: 000000005e376000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:1038 [inline]
 end_dirop+0x7d/0x90 fs/namei.c:2947
 end_creating_keep include/linux/namei.h:147 [inline]
 ovl_workdir_create+0x51d/0x940 fs/overlayfs/super.c:346
 ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:682 [inline]
 ovl_get_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:840 [inline]
 ovl_fill_super_creds fs/overlayfs/super.c:1453 [inline]
 ovl_fill_super+0x1a3f/0x5e00 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1564
 vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1327 [inline]
 get_tree_nodev+0xbb/0x150 fs/super.c:1346
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1754
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3763 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x341/0xd30 fs/namespace.c:3839
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4172 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4361 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4338
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0ae39cc799
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:00007f0ae1bfd028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0ae3c46090 RCX: 00007f0ae39cc799
RDX: 0000200000000440 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f0ae3a62bd9 R08: 0000200000000200 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0ae3c46128 R14: 00007f0ae3c46090 R15: 00007ffe2012ba88
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	6a 8f                	push   $0xffffffffffffff8f
   2:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
   6:	42 0f b6 04 20       	movzbl (%rax,%r12,1),%eax
   b:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
   d:	0f 85 c0 01 00 00    	jne    0x1d3
  13:	83 3d 64 b7 46 04 00 	cmpl   $0x0,0x446b764(%rip)        # 0x446b77e
  1a:	75 13                	jne    0x2f
  1c:	48 8d 3d 77 c3 49 04 	lea    0x449c377(%rip),%rdi        # 0x449c39a
  23:	48 c7 c6 20 e8 4c 8b 	mov    $0xffffffff8b4ce820,%rsi
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	90                   	nop
  30:	e9 2a fa ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffa5f
  35:	90                   	nop
  36:	0f 0b                	ud2
  38:	90                   	nop
  39:	e9 4c fe ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffe8a
  3e:	be                   	.byte 0xbe
  3f:	02                   	.byte 0x2

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/26 14:11 upstream f4d0ec0aa20d ffa54287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in end_dirop
2026/01/20 02:27 upstream 24d479d26b25 572effc1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in end_dirop
2026/01/07 13:07 upstream f0b9d8eb98df d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in end_dirop
2025/12/21 00:16 upstream d8ba32c5a460 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in end_dirop
2026/01/25 07:00 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 59e4d31a0470 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in end_dirop
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.