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WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (5)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/10 17:53
Subsystems: overlayfs
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Reported-by: syzbot+078954d5ad423349aa78@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 100d, last: 33d
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[syzbot] [overlayfs?] WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (5) 0 (1) 2025/09/10 17:53
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (3) -1 2 136d 136d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/09 02:42
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create overlayfs -1 1 1090d 1086d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/20 02:11
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (3) ext4 -1 1 585d 581d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/17 18:22
linux-6.1 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (3) -1 4 100d 220d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/15 10:43
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (4) overlayfs -1 1 385d 381d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/24 06:35
linux-6.1 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (2) -1 2 361d 377d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/29 20:32
linux-5.15 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create -1 3 385d 538d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/04 23:52
linux-5.15 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (2) -1 1 256d 256d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/12 19:53
linux-6.1 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create -1 1 577d 577d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/25 13:40
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (2) overlayfs -1 1 766d 762d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/18 01:53

Sample crash report:
ntfs3(loop1): ino=1e, mi_enum_attr
ntfs3(loop1): ino=1b, mi_enum_attr
ntfs3(loop1): ino=1b, mi_enum_attr
------------[ cut here ]------------
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(rt_mutex_owner(lock) != current)
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6304 at kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:182 debug_rt_mutex_unlock kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:182 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6304 at kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:182 rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x6ce/0x8a0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1419
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6304 Comm: syz.1.56 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:debug_rt_mutex_unlock kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:182 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x6ce/0x8a0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1419
Code: 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 0f 85 c6 01 00 00 83 3d 3d 2d 14 04 00 75 19 90 48 c7 c7 a0 fd ea 8a 48 c7 c6 e0 fd ea 8a e8 23 d6 c0 f6 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 90 e9 2f fa ff ff 90 0f 0b 90 e9 53 fe ff ff be 02 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90006437440 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: e135012a86d78600 RBX: ffff88805e5e6790 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000ef79000 RSI: 0000000000001c6f RDI: 0000000000001c70
RBP: ffffc90006437530 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed101712487b R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88805e5e6740 R14: 0000000000000a06 R15: 1ffff92000c86e90
FS:  00007f49e74ad6c0(0000) GS:ffff888126ef7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000003abc2000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:990 [inline]
 ovl_workdir_create+0x4da/0x8b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:341
 ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:679 [inline]
 ovl_get_workdir+0x32b/0x17b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:837
 ovl_fill_super+0x154a/0x3da0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1468
 vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1324 [inline]
 get_tree_nodev+0xbb/0x150 fs/super.c:1343
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1751
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1208 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3651 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x302/0xa10 fs/namespace.c:3727
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4050 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4238 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x313/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4215
 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: 0033:0x7f49e926f6c9
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:00007f49e74ad038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f49e94c6090 RCX: 00007f49e926f6c9
RDX: 0000200000000b80 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f49e92f1f91 R08: 0000200000000280 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f49e94c6128 R14: 00007f49e94c6090 R15: 00007fff89a8e2a8
 </TASK>

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/12 12:31 upstream 24172e0d7990 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
2025/11/02 19:04 upstream 691d401c7e0e 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
2025/09/30 13:26 upstream 1896ce8eb6c6 86341da6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
2025/09/06 17:50 upstream d1d10cea0895 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.