general protection fault in path_put

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/31 17:14
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+1686d17ae576cc5f8a57@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 69d, last: 19d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
d12bf70d repro-c Reproduced: ✅ ❓ general protection fault in path_put 2026/10/05 21:04 2026/10/05 21:30 2026/10/05 22:16 1995e6c7
521fb98d patching 💥 general protection fault in path_put 2026/08/31 20:44 2026/08/31 20:44 2026/08/31 20:49 2f52988a
66d35475 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ general protection fault in path_put 2026/07/31 01:34 2026/07/31 01:34 2026/07/31 01:40 aaffb173
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[syzbot] [fs?] general protection fault in path_put 0 (2) 2026/08/03 03:24
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in path_put 19 8 212d 218d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/07 07:18
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (3)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/10/05 22:17 14m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 67f0943b394d920b6c142aad8c6af94340342ae7 no crash job log log
2026/10/01 22:17 20m retest repro upstream no crash job log log
2026/08/03 03:24 24m ryan.mehri1@gmail.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 11028ab62899 OK log

Sample crash report:
RBP: 00007fd274454090 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007fd273826038 R14: 00007fd273825fa0 R15: 00007fffa16eda48
 </TASK>
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000008: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7696 Comm: syz.6.382 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/05/2026
RIP: 0010:path_put+0x24/0x60 fs/namei.c:722
Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 41 56 53 48 89 fb 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e8 e7 79 79 ff 48 8d 7b 08 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 30 00 74 05 e8 40 43 e9 ff 48 8b 7b 08 e8 e7 8e 03 00 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc900053d79c8 EFLAGS: 00010213
RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 000000000000003c RCX: ffff88803a5fddc0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000044
RBP: ffffc900053d7b50 R08: ffffffff9aa2ae37 R09: ffffffff9aa2ae20
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff35455c7 R12: fffffffffffffff4
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007fd2744546c0(0000) GS:ffff888124dda000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00002000000002b0 CR3: 000000007e959000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 free_trace_uprobe kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c:374 [inline]
 __free_free_trace_uprobe kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c:536 [inline]
 __trace_uprobe_create+0x53f/0xe40 kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c:725
 trace_probe_create+0xce/0x130 kernel/trace/trace_probe.c:2812
 dyn_event_create+0x59/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c:133
 create_or_delete_trace_uprobe+0x65/0xa0 kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c:739
 trace_parse_run_command+0x1f3/0x380 kernel/trace/trace.c:9570
 vfs_write+0x296/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:685
 ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fd27359e159
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fd274454028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd273825fa0 RCX: 00007fd27359e159
RDX: 000000000000001b RSI: 0000200000000300 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007fd274454090 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007fd273826038 R14: 00007fd273825fa0 R15: 00007fffa16eda48
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:path_put+0x24/0x60 fs/namei.c:722
Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 41 56 53 48 89 fb 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e8 e7 79 79 ff 48 8d 7b 08 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 30 00 74 05 e8 40 43 e9 ff 48 8b 7b 08 e8 e7 8e 03 00 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc900053d79c8 EFLAGS: 00010213
RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 000000000000003c RCX: ffff88803a5fddc0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000044
RBP: ffffc900053d7b50 R08: ffffffff9aa2ae37 R09: ffffffff9aa2ae20
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff35455c7 R12: fffffffffffffff4
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007fd2744546c0(0000) GS:ffff888124dda000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f85c7fef2f8 CR3: 000000007e959000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	90                   	nop
   1:	90                   	nop
   2:	90                   	nop
   3:	90                   	nop
   4:	90                   	nop
   5:	90                   	nop
   6:	f3 0f 1e fa          	endbr64
   a:	41 56                	push   %r14
   c:	53                   	push   %rbx
   d:	48 89 fb             	mov    %rdi,%rbx
  10:	49 be 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%r14
  17:	fc ff df
  1a:	e8 e7 79 79 ff       	call   0xff797a06
  1f:	48 8d 7b 08          	lea    0x8(%rbx),%rdi
  23:	48 89 f8             	mov    %rdi,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 30 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r14,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 05                	je     0x36
  31:	e8 40 43 e9 ff       	call   0xffe94376
  36:	48 8b 7b 08          	mov    0x8(%rbx),%rdi
  3a:	e8 e7 8e 03 00       	call   0x38f26
  3f:	48                   	rex.W

Crashes (175):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/03 01:59 upstream 89a312991dc6 85995287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/03 00:45 upstream 89a312991dc6 85995287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/02 07:49 upstream 786262be6048 587f6b29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/01 04:51 upstream bf1079577a11 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/31 14:52 upstream cee9395acd80 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/29 06:14 upstream c20313e98b04 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/26 12:47 upstream 45c13f3f9e3b 6a91adb4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/24 01:51 upstream b6b019a1d9b9 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/23 20:28 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/23 18:48 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/04 13:36 upstream bc35965f6940 44dda43b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/04 02:33 upstream 8ab1afb2eb24 801f0966 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/02 15:27 upstream 89a312991dc6 74e93e68 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/02 14:53 upstream 89a312991dc6 74e93e68 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/02 05:05 upstream 89a312991dc6 587f6b29 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/02 00:01 upstream 89a312991dc6 587f6b29 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/01 03:49 upstream bf1079577a11 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/30 21:00 upstream a23cbb05744b 2f52988a .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/30 13:05 upstream 08dbfad3f504 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/29 23:26 upstream 08dbfad3f504 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/29 07:42 upstream cf72cbb39da8 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/27 15:00 upstream 818bebeb63dd c53a1b9c .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/26 21:44 upstream 818bebeb63dd a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/25 19:57 upstream 818bebeb63dd a9a1fc32 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/25 14:52 upstream 818bebeb63dd a9a1fc32 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/25 04:36 upstream 818bebeb63dd 614e416a .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/24 11:34 upstream 818bebeb63dd b55bd4c3 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/22 04:43 upstream 818bebeb63dd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/21 09:13 upstream 818bebeb63dd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/21 04:16 upstream 9d2ed026f031 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/07/30 14:12 upstream 11028ab62899 abc81b93 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/25 17:33 upstream 66498c75b4f8 a9a1fc32 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/17 20:49 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/17 09:06 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/16 08:18 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 12a0a44a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/15 18:22 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 81a27d1a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/15 13:35 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 81a27d1a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/12 13:57 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/12 04:04 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 b6a5eeb7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/10 00:20 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 4e8b1cc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/09 23:14 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 4e8b1cc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/08 23:33 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 243b72f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/07 08:29 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/07 08:19 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/07 06:11 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/06 18:28 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/06 06:38 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/04 23:29 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 3f042c7b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/04 11:51 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 801f0966 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/09/02 20:36 linux-next 32b6ef9a5d0e 85995287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/28 00:16 linux-next 3d83758432b5 e2fa417d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/26 23:37 linux-next f82a5da2f049 a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/25 23:14 linux-next a8406e6c0b79 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/25 02:42 linux-next 4b18edbd8e70 23caa175 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
2026/08/23 17:22 linux-next 903c1cf6dff9 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in path_put
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.