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WARNING in do_notify_parent

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/28 16:11
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:low
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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: 81d, last: now
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
95318d36-e1de-482d-a3ed-36efc5cb3806 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in do_notify_parent 2026/05/13 05:08 2026/05/13 05:08 2026/05/13 05:10 a0949470b6a66f5eb685a5f70be7c66daf726d2b
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.0.122/6302
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6302 Comm: syz.0.122 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 4a a4 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 29 a4 3d 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 45 31 f6 e9 f5 f9 ff ff e8 18 a4 3d 00 90 0f 0b 90 e9 43
RSP: 0000:ffffc90004d07a98 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888033718000 RCX: ffffffff81ca58ab
RDX: ffff888033718000 RSI: ffffffff81ca6697 RDI: ffff888033718000
RBP: 000000000000004a R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000040
R10: 000000000000004a R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 1ffff920009a0f56
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 000000000000004a R15: ffff888033718000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124374000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000001afe000 CR3: 00000000788e4000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 exit_notify kernel/exit.c:758 [inline]
 do_exit+0x1b84/0x2af0 kernel/exit.c:988
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1119
 get_signal+0x20ff/0x2210 kernel/signal.c:3037
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x91/0x7a0 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+0x410/0x7e0 kernel/entry/common.c:162
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
RIP: 0033:0x105000
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x104fd6.
RSP: 002b:0000000000000010 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007fa8b5a16180 RCX: 00007fa8b579ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 0000000020003b4a
RBP: 00007fa8b5832d6f R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa8b5a16218 R14: 00007fa8b5a16180 R15: 00007ffe252c9f78
 </TASK>

Crashes (109862):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/17 03:42 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/15 15:17 upstream 70eda68668d1 9cd3beaa .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/09 19:45 upstream 70390501d194 29233ece .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/06 12:09 upstream 9207d47f966b 26da2c66 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/06 11:39 upstream 74fe02ce122a 23ad3581 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/06 10:09 upstream 9207d47f966b 26da2c66 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/02 15:37 upstream f1a5e78a55eb a0d91488 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
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
2026/05/15 07:51 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 6ccb967e .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/14 11:32 upstream e1914add2799 6ccb967e .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/11 13:24 upstream 5d6919055dec 845acb1c .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/08 13:47 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 5633175a .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-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
2026/05/17 12:17 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:43 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:39 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:07 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:57 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:45 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:27 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:15 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:05 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:07 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:01 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:56 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:50 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:32 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:27 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:08 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 07:57 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 07:11 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 03:16 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:53 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:49 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 02:23 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 12:03 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:51 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:33 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:39 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:17 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 12:09 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:56 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:32 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:26 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:16 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:12 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:42 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:37 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:10 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:12 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:43 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:13 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 12:44 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 12:38 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 12:33 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 12:25 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:20 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 11:03 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 10:20 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:47 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:19 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:38 bpf-next 50d00ea66086 de5aae85 .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
2026/05/17 09:59 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:33 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 09:28 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:21 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 08:02 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/17 03:25 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm64-mte WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/13 03:37 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 1d5dcaa3bd65 a0949470 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm64-compat WARNING in do_notify_parent
2026/05/10 08:37 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git for-next f2abc305aa93 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 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.