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WARNING in shmem_unlink (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/27 20:36
Subsystems: overlayfs
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Reported-by: syzbot+bfc9a0ccf0de47d04e8c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d06h, last: 10h18m
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit d2c995581c7c5d0ff623b2700e76bf22499c66df
Author: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Date: Wed Jul 16 00:44:14 2025 +0000

  ovl: Call ovl_create_temp() without lock held.

Crash: WARNING in shmem_unlink (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] ovl: fail ovl_lock_rename_workdir() if either target is unhashed 4 (5) 2025/11/28 09:54
[syzbot] [overlayfs?] WARNING in shmem_unlink (2) 3 (5) 2025/11/28 01:16
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in shmem_unlink overlayfs -1 syz inconclusive 12 66d 104d 29/29 fixed on 2025/10/09 01:15
Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/11/28 06:55 26m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream OK log
2025/11/27 23:41 13m hdanton@sina.com upstream report log

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6236 at fs/inode.c:417 drop_nlink+0xc5/0x110 fs/inode.c:417
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6236 Comm: syz.0.107 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 87 6b ec ff f0 48 ff 83 c0 08 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 52 5c 90 08 cc e8 2c aa 8a 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:ffffc90003b0f288 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff82340314 RBX: ffff888023b292e0 RCX: ffff8880397ada00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000761e49 R12: 1ffff11004765265
R13: 000000006926eb25 R14: ffff888023b29328 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f944571d6c0(0000) GS:ffff888126df6000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f944571cf98 CR3: 0000000028194000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 shmem_unlink+0x1f5/0x2d0 mm/shmem.c:3979
 shmem_rename2+0x22d/0x360 mm/shmem.c:4065
 vfs_rename+0xb34/0xe80 fs/namei.c:5216
 ovl_do_rename+0x13c/0x210 fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:373
 ovl_create_over_whiteout fs/overlayfs/dir.c:550 [inline]
 ovl_create_or_link+0xaf7/0x1410 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:656
 ovl_create_object+0x234/0x310 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:695
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3796 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3895 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1500/0x3840 fs/namei.c:4131
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4161
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1437
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1468 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1463 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1463
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f94460cf749
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f944571d038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9446326090 RCX: 00007f94460cf749
RDX: 0000000000105042 RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f9446153f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000000001ff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9446326128 R14: 00007f9446326090 R15: 00007fff80085c88
 </TASK>

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/26 12:00 upstream 30f09200cc4a 64219f15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in shmem_unlink
2025/11/26 05:35 upstream 8a2bcda5e139 bf6fe8fe .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in shmem_unlink
2025/11/26 04:00 upstream 8a2bcda5e139 bf6fe8fe .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in shmem_unlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.