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WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_pgt_entry

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/17 08:11
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+52343d77314d6c0447fe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 17d, last: 16d
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit aaf5c23bf6a474f11f48f03bd6a9b551f4e7d45a
Author: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Date: Mon Jun 9 13:26:35 2025 +0000

  mm/mremap: introduce more mergeable mremap via MREMAP_RELOCATE_ANON

Crash: WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_pgt_entry (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
Duplicate bugs (1)
duplicates (1):
Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_page_tables mm 3 17d 13d 0/29 closed as dup on 2025/06/20 09:47
Discussions (1)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[syzbot] [mm?] WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_pgt_entry 1 (3) 2025/06/18 05:07
Last patch testing requests (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/07/01 05:32 24m retest repro linux-next OK log
2025/07/01 05:32 24m retest repro linux-next OK log
2025/07/01 05:32 24m retest repro linux-next report log
2025/07/01 05:32 27m retest repro linux-next OK log

Sample crash report:
=====================================
WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
6.16.0-rc2-next-20250616-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
-------------------------------------
syz-executor359/6969 is trying to release lock (&mapping->i_mmap_rwsem) at:
[<ffffffff82104277>] i_mmap_unlock_write include/linux/fs.h:557 [inline]
[<ffffffff82104277>] maybe_drop_rmap_locks mm/mremap.c:197 [inline]
[<ffffffff82104277>] move_pgt_entry+0xfa7/0x1170 mm/mremap.c:686
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by syz-executor359/6969:
 #0: ffff88802f641760 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: mmap_write_lock_killable include/linux/mmap_lock.h:374 [inline]
 #0: ffff88802f641760 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: do_mremap mm/mremap.c:2371 [inline]
 #0: ffff88802f641760 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: __do_sys_mremap mm/mremap.c:2453 [inline]
 #0: ffff88802f641760 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: __se_sys_mremap+0x3c0/0xc60 mm/mremap.c:2421

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6969 Comm: syz-executor359 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc2-next-20250616-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_unlock_imbalance_bug+0xdc/0xf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5301
 __lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5540 [inline]
 lock_release+0x269/0x3e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5892
 up_write+0x2d/0x420 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1629
 i_mmap_unlock_write include/linux/fs.h:557 [inline]
 maybe_drop_rmap_locks mm/mremap.c:197 [inline]
 move_pgt_entry+0xfa7/0x1170 mm/mremap.c:686
 move_page_tables+0xcde/0x2940 mm/mremap.c:1367
 copy_vma_and_data mm/mremap.c:1807 [inline]
 move_vma+0xd5e/0x2010 mm/mremap.c:1913
 mremap_to+0x7e7/0x8b0 mm/mremap.c:2106
 do_mremap mm/mremap.c:2396 [inline]
 __do_sys_mremap mm/mremap.c:2453 [inline]
 __se_sys_mremap+0x8f5/0xc60 mm/mremap.c:2421
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f33da2e43b9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 11 1d 00 00 90 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 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f33da273168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000019
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f33da3673f8 RCX: 00007f33da2e43b9
RDX: 0000000000200000 RSI: 0000000000600600 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f33da3673f0 R08: 0000200000a00000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f33da3673fc
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007ffccf0ef660 R15: 00007ffccf0ef748
 </TASK>
------------[ cut here ]------------
DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON((rwsem_owner(sem) != current) && !rwsem_test_oflags(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE)): count = 0x0, magic = 0xffff888033554d00, owner = 0x0, curr 0xffff888033b15a00, list empty
WARNING: kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1368 at __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1367 [inline], CPU#1: syz-executor359/6969
WARNING: kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1368 at up_write+0x3a2/0x420 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1630, CPU#1: syz-executor359/6969
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6969 Comm: syz-executor359 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc2-next-20250616-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
RIP: 0010:__up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1367 [inline]
RIP: 0010:up_write+0x3a2/0x420 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1630
Code: d0 48 c7 c7 60 ee 8a 8b 48 c7 c6 80 f0 8a 8b 48 8b 14 24 4c 89 f1 4d 89 e0 4c 8b 4c 24 08 41 52 e8 23 3b e6 ff 48 83 c4 08 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 e9 6d fd ff ff 48 c7 c1 34 81 a1 8f 80 e1 07 80 c1 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b2ff498 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 636aee1c3dfaec00 RBX: ffff888033554d00 RCX: ffff888033b15a00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1bfaa14 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888033554d58 R14: ffff888033554d00 R15: 1ffff110066aa9a1
FS:  00007f33da2736c0(0000) GS:ffff888125d40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f33da29ba90 CR3: 000000002c068000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 i_mmap_unlock_write include/linux/fs.h:557 [inline]
 maybe_drop_rmap_locks mm/mremap.c:197 [inline]
 move_pgt_entry+0xfa7/0x1170 mm/mremap.c:686
 move_page_tables+0xcde/0x2940 mm/mremap.c:1367
 copy_vma_and_data mm/mremap.c:1807 [inline]
 move_vma+0xd5e/0x2010 mm/mremap.c:1913
 mremap_to+0x7e7/0x8b0 mm/mremap.c:2106
 do_mremap mm/mremap.c:2396 [inline]
 __do_sys_mremap mm/mremap.c:2453 [inline]
 __se_sys_mremap+0x8f5/0xc60 mm/mremap.c:2421
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f33da2e43b9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 11 1d 00 00 90 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 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f33da273168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000019
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f33da3673f8 RCX: 00007f33da2e43b9
RDX: 0000000000200000 RSI: 0000000000600600 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f33da3673f0 R08: 0000200000a00000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f33da3673fc
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007ffccf0ef660 R15: 00007ffccf0ef748
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/06/17 04:08 linux-next 050f8ad7b58d d1716036 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_pgt_entry
2025/06/17 02:20 linux-next 050f8ad7b58d d1716036 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_pgt_entry
2025/06/17 00:39 linux-next 050f8ad7b58d d1716036 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_pgt_entry
2025/06/16 22:09 linux-next 050f8ad7b58d d1716036 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_pgt_entry
2025/06/16 09:29 linux-next 050f8ad7b58d 5f4b362d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in move_pgt_entry
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.