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WARNING in do_notify_parent

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/28 16:11
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+bbe6b99feefc3a0842de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: kernel/fork: validate exit_signal in kernel_clone()
Patched on: [ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 65d, last: now
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
89df55d2-bac7-41e5-830c-4b35b960f14e repro WARNING in do_notify_parent 2026/03/05 20:22 2026/03/05 20:37 2026/03/05 20:48 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Discussions (4)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH v3] kernel/fork: validate exit_signal in kernel_clone() 4 (4) 2026/03/17 14:19
[PATCH v2] kernel/fork: validate exit_signal in kernel_clone() 2 (2) 2026/03/16 11:51
[syzbot] [kernel?] WARNING in do_notify_parent 0 (4) 2026/03/16 08:21
[PATCH] kernel/fork: validate exit_signal in clone() syscall 1 (1) 2026/03/07 06:42
Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/03/16 08:21 1h00m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next OK log
2026/03/07 05:28 23m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next OK log

Sample crash report:
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!valid_signal(sig)
WARNING: kernel/signal.c:2174 at do_notify_parent+0xea8/0x10b0 kernel/signal.c:2174, CPU#0: syz.0.58/6051
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6051 Comm: syz.0.58 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:do_notify_parent+0xea8/0x10b0 kernel/signal.c:2174
Code: f4 ff ff e8 5a 95 3d 00 41 c1 ff 08 c7 84 24 90 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 44 89 bc 24 a0 00 00 00 e9 92 f8 ff ff e8 39 95 3d 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 45 31 f6 e9 f5 f9 ff ff e8 28 95 3d 00 90 0f 0b 90 e9 43
RSP: 0018:ffffc900035d7aa8 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88807e510000 RCX: ffffffff81ca383b
RDX: ffff88807e510000 RSI: ffffffff81ca4627 RDI: ffff88807e510000
RBP: 0000000000000046 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000040
R10: 0000000000000046 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 1ffff920006baf58
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000046 R15: ffff88807e510000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2ed24008 CR3: 00000000737f2000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 exit_notify kernel/exit.c:757 [inline]
 do_exit+0x1b05/0x2a60 kernel/exit.c:987
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1117
 get_signal+0x1ec7/0x21e0 kernel/signal.c:3037
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x91/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:98 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:252 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:323 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x403/0x790 kernel/entry/common.c:162
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
RIP: 0033:0x8000
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7fd6.
RSP: 002b:0000000000000011 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: 00007fedefc15fa0 RCX: 00007fedef99cdd9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 0000000020003b46
RBP: 00007fedefa32d69 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fedefc16038 R14: 00007fedefc15fa0 R15: 00007fff7b3103a8
 </TASK>

Crashes (46402):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/26 17:54 upstream 897d54018cc9 9c2d0995 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/04/22 18:11 upstream 6596a02b2078 0e869ba2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/04/28 14:56 upstream 3b3bea6d4b9c 340bcdf0 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/04/28 13:27 upstream 3b3bea6d4b9c 340bcdf0 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/04/20 12:14 bpf eb5249b12507 303e2802 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/03/03 06:20 linux-next d517cb8cea01 28b83e23 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/03/03 10:07 linux-next d517cb8cea01 28b83e23 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/03/03 07:15 linux-next d517cb8cea01 28b83e23 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:28 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:15 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:48 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:30 upstream 26fd6bff2c05 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:18 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:13 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:07 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:03 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:47 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:34 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:17 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:07 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:02 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 03:58 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 03:53 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 03:51 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 03:56 upstream 08d0d3466664 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:19 upstream 26fd6bff2c05 753c55b9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:33 upstream 26fd6bff2c05 753c55b9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 03:26 upstream 26fd6bff2c05 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:35 upstream 26fd6bff2c05 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:26 upstream 26fd6bff2c05 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 08:40 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:58 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:34 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:10 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:54 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:37 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:23 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:09 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:32 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:29 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:13 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:54 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:48 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:26 bpf b5c111f4967b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 08:35 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 08:29 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 08:22 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 08:14 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 08:05 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:47 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:40 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:24 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 07:02 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 06:43 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:58 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:51 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:40 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:19 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 05:06 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:59 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 04:41 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/03/09 19:53 linux-next a0ae2a256046 176bead5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/03/09 03:46 linux-next a0ae2a256046 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/02/28 15:58 linux-next 3fa5e5702a82 43249bac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/02/24 16:07 linux-next 3ef088b0c577 96b1aa46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/01 00:01 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master e75a43c7cec4 a7464baf .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm64-mte WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/04/29 06:06 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master dca922e019dd 95008c03 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm64-compat WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/04/26 18:28 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 897d54018cc9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm64 WARNING in do_notify_parent
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.