general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2)

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/07/30 12:39
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+cc460646984184ad435a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d21h, last: 2h11m
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
5c8b90bb patching 💥 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 2026/07/30 13:17 2026/07/30 13:17 2026/07/30 13:25 2377cd3d
reproducer did not crash
6859b446 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 2026/07/28 01:49 2026/07/28 01:49 2026/07/28 02:33 4cb2b096

			
		
f2830863 assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 2026/07/26 01:46 2026/07/26 01:46 2026/07/26 01:46 492bab15
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[syzbot] [fs?] general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 0 (1) 2026/07/30 12:39
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal fs 2 1 356d 352d 0/29 closed as dup on 2025/08/13 21:14

Sample crash report:
i2c i2c-4: failure writing data
retu-mfd 4-0002: could not read Tahvo revision: -5
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000028: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000140-0x0000000000000147]
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 6038 Comm: syz.1.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x15/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
Code: 00 00 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ef 03 48 01 c7 <0f> b6 07 3c 07 0f 96 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000388f530 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff81e53a84 RDI: dffffc0000000028
RBP: 0000000000000140 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff88803eb7a69b R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81e53a84
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f75557fe6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880d60dc000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f94181cf708 CR3: 000000003a18e000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __kasan_check_byte+0x13/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:573
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x132/0x370 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
 down_write_nested+0x94/0x200 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1757
 inode_lock_nested include/linux/fs.h:1069 [inline]
 __simple_recursive_removal+0x7f/0x5c0 fs/libfs.c:606
 debugfs_remove+0x5d/0x80 fs/debugfs/inode.c:781
 i2c_device_probe+0x6e2/0xd10 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:610
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 i2c_new_client_device+0x660/0xd30 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1019
 new_device_store+0x20f/0x420 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1307
 dev_attr_store+0x58/0x80 drivers/base/core.c:2505
 sysfs_kf_write+0xf2/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e0/0x5f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6ac/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f755619df99
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:00007f75557fe028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7556425fa0 RCX: 00007f755619df99
RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000200000000680 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f7556234ec4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7556426038 R14: 00007f7556425fa0 R15: 00007ffcd129f658
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x15/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
Code: 00 00 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ef 03 48 01 c7 <0f> b6 07 3c 07 0f 96 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000388f530 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff81e53a84 RDI: dffffc0000000028
RBP: 0000000000000140 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff88803eb7a69b R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81e53a84
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f75557fe6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880d60dc000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f94181cf708 CR3: 000000003a18e000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   2:	0f 1f 00             	nopl   (%rax)
   5:	90                   	nop
   6:	90                   	nop
   7:	90                   	nop
   8:	90                   	nop
   9:	90                   	nop
   a:	90                   	nop
   b:	90                   	nop
   c:	90                   	nop
   d:	90                   	nop
   e:	90                   	nop
   f:	90                   	nop
  10:	90                   	nop
  11:	90                   	nop
  12:	90                   	nop
  13:	90                   	nop
  14:	90                   	nop
  15:	0f 1f 40 d6          	nopl   -0x2a(%rax)
  19:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  20:	fc ff df
  23:	48 c1 ef 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdi
  27:	48 01 c7             	add    %rax,%rdi
* 2a:	0f b6 07             	movzbl (%rdi),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2d:	3c 07                	cmp    $0x7,%al
  2f:	0f 96 c0             	setbe  %al
  32:	c3                   	ret
  33:	cc                   	int3
  34:	cc                   	int3
  35:	cc                   	int3
  36:	cc                   	int3
  37:	66                   	data16
  38:	66                   	data16
  39:	2e                   	cs
  3a:	0f                   	.byte 0xf
  3b:	1f                   	(bad)
  3c:	84 00                	test   %al,(%rax)

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/30 12:38 upstream 11028ab62899 abc81b93 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/30 18:42 upstream 11028ab62899 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/30 10:22 upstream 11028ab62899 abc81b93 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/28 19:36 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/28 17:46 upstream 62cc90241548 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/26 15:10 upstream 3dab139d4795 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/26 14:13 upstream 3dab139d4795 492bab15 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/27 04:28 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/27 04:28 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/27 04:26 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/24 23:52 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.