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general protection fault in vfs_rename

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/22 15:59
Bug presence: origin:downstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+6322832df18f369c5366@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 624d, last: 1d19h
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit 57f3ff9648991998d008ecf32f2f9e78a08bfb8b
Author: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Date: Thu Dec 2 21:50:02 2021 +0000

  ANDROID: fuse-bpf v1.1

Crash: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in vfs_rename (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
Bug presence (3)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2023/10/22 android14-6.1 (ToT) 53771c1826da C [report] general protection fault in vfs_rename
2023/10/22 lts (merge base) b1644a0031cf C Didn't crash
2023/10/22 upstream (ToT) 1acfd2bd3f0d C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 general protection fault in vfs_rename C inconclusive 28 3d12h 631d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/15 16:27
android-5-15 general protection fault in vfs_rename origin:downstream C 12 22d 631d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/15 16:52
android-6-12 general protection fault in vfs_rename origin:downstream C 3 11d 13d 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2025/06/25 09:20
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vfs_rename overlayfs 6 881d 883d 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
2025/06/15 10:35 7m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/05/18 05:23 8m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/05/03 11:57 6m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/05/03 11:57 6m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/04/05 05:29 6m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/03/04 00:30 6m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/02/17 13:27 10m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2025/01/24 22:20 14m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2024/12/23 23:43 6m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
2024/12/09 10:19 7m retest repro android14-6.1 report log
Fix bisection attempts (6)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2024/09/06 03:54 1h02m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2024/05/09 03:04 38m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2024/03/01 11:06 39m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2024/01/22 08:50 55m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2023/12/23 04:15 39m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log
2023/11/23 01:43 40m bisect fix android14-6.1 OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000008: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]
CPU: 0 PID: 295 Comm: syz-executor470 Not tainted 6.1.141-syzkaller-00036-g7011769d221c #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
RIP: 0010:vfs_rename+0x1b1/0x10d0 fs/namei.c:4762
Code: c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 77 d8 f3 ff 48 8b 03 48 89 44 24 48 48 8b 44 24 30 4c 8d 70 30 4d 89 f7 49 c1 ef 03 <43> 80 3c 27 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 50 d8 f3 ff 49 8b 16 4c 89 6c 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e87b80 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000011 RBX: ffff8881050e37a0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888107ab6540 RSI: 0000000000200000 RDI: 0000000000200000
RBP: ffffc90000e87cf0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffff520001d0f7d
R10: fffff520001d0f7d R11: 1ffff920001d0f7c R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88812357e640 R14: 0000000000000041 R15: 0000000000000008
FS:  00007f31f05a96c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000020000000b000 CR3: 000000011828b000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 do_renameat2+0x7ed/0xf60 fs/namei.c:5026
 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5072 [inline]
 __se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5070 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rename+0x86/0x90 fs/namei.c:5070
 x64_sys_call+0x300/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:83
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f31f06298b9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 c1 17 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:00007f31f05a9218 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f31f06ba408 RCX: 00007f31f06298b9
RDX: 00007f31f0607016 RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: 0000200000000100
RBP: 00007f31f06ba400 R08: 00007ffff8f44097 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f31f06870bc
R13: 000020000000a280 R14: 00007ffff8f43fb0 R15: 00007ffff8f44098
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:vfs_rename+0x1b1/0x10d0 fs/namei.c:4762
Code: c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 77 d8 f3 ff 48 8b 03 48 89 44 24 48 48 8b 44 24 30 4c 8d 70 30 4d 89 f7 49 c1 ef 03 <43> 80 3c 27 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 50 d8 f3 ff 49 8b 16 4c 89 6c 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e87b80 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000011 RBX: ffff8881050e37a0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888107ab6540 RSI: 0000000000200000 RDI: 0000000000200000
RBP: ffffc90000e87cf0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffff520001d0f7d
R10: fffff520001d0f7d R11: 1ffff920001d0f7c R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88812357e640 R14: 0000000000000041 R15: 0000000000000008
FS:  00007f31f05a96c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f31f05a9d58 CR3: 000000011828b000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	c1 e8 03             	shr    $0x3,%eax
   3:	42 80 3c 20 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r12,1)
   8:	74 08                	je     0x12
   a:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
   d:	e8 77 d8 f3 ff       	call   0xfff3d889
  12:	48 8b 03             	mov    (%rbx),%rax
  15:	48 89 44 24 48       	mov    %rax,0x48(%rsp)
  1a:	48 8b 44 24 30       	mov    0x30(%rsp),%rax
  1f:	4c 8d 70 30          	lea    0x30(%rax),%r14
  23:	4d 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%r15
  26:	49 c1 ef 03          	shr    $0x3,%r15
* 2a:	43 80 3c 27 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%r15,%r12,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
  34:	e8 50 d8 f3 ff       	call   0xfff3d889
  39:	49 8b 16             	mov    (%r14),%rdx
  3c:	4c                   	rex.WR
  3d:	89                   	.byte 0x89
  3e:	6c                   	insb   (%dx),%es:(%rdi)
  3f:	24                   	.byte 0x24

Crashes (12):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/06 19:03 android14-6.1 7011769d221c 4f67c4ae .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/04/19 11:39 android14-6.1 bc3d1d352ab6 2a20f901 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/11/25 06:51 android14-6.1 226e9f92a06c 68da6d95 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/03/21 04:06 android14-6.1 3f5807c586a6 5b7d42ae .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2023/10/22 15:58 android14-6.1 53771c1826da 361b23dc .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2025/04/19 11:03 android14-6.1 bc3d1d352ab6 2a20f901 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/06/27 23:02 android14-6.1 616650627d13 6ef39602 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/06/27 23:02 android14-6.1 616650627d13 6ef39602 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/05/27 16:46 android14-6.1 68c821783c76 761766e6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/05/27 16:45 android14-6.1 68c821783c76 761766e6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/03/25 07:06 android14-6.1 d518ca9dbbe9 0ea90952 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
2024/03/21 03:43 android14-6.1 3f5807c586a6 5b7d42ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 general protection fault in vfs_rename
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.