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WARNING in msdos_rmdir

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/12 15:49
Subsystems: exfat
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Reported-by: syzbot+66d24939ab3817bd81d0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d14h, last: 1d14h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [exfat?] WARNING in msdos_rmdir 1 (2) 2026/01/12 16:15

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: fs/inode.c:417 at drop_nlink+0xc5/0x110 fs/inode.c:417, CPU#1: syz-executor/5973
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5973 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:drop_nlink+0xc5/0x110 fs/inode.c:417
Code: c0 08 00 00 be 08 00 00 00 e8 67 f9 eb ff f0 48 ff 83 c0 08 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 42 90 9f 08 cc e8 1c bd 89 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb 81 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 5b ff ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004877bf0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8235efa4 RBX: ffff8880589f9d30 RCX: ffff8880274f3c80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1db66cf R12: 1ffff1100b13f3af
R13: ffff8880589f9d30 R14: ffff8880589f9d78 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  000055559129d500(0000) GS:ffff888126dee000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005555912d86c8 CR3: 0000000038956000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 msdos_rmdir+0x3ca/0x4e0 fs/fat/namei_msdos.c:328
 vfs_rmdir+0x51b/0x670 fs/namei.c:5245
 do_rmdir+0x27f/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5300
 __do_sys_unlinkat fs/namei.c:5477 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlinkat fs/namei.c:5471 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc2/0xf0 fs/namei.c:5471
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0f8e67ed27
Code: 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 07 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fff98601628 EFLAGS: 00000207 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000065 RCX: 00007f0f8e67ed27
RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 00007fff986027d0 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 00007f0f8e703d7d R08: 00005555912c86ab R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000001000 R11: 0000000000000207 R12: 00007fff986027d0
R13: 00007f0f8e703d7d R14: 000000000001a887 R15: 00007fff98605a80
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/12 08:12 upstream 9c7ef209cd0f d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in msdos_rmdir
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.