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WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/24 08:20
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+0d671007a95cd2835e05@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d09h, last: 18h38m
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) [merge commit]:
commit 070bdf83f3b578cfb7c55d6743c31fec9b1c4bb8
Author: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Date: Tue Sep 23 11:48:36 2025 +0000

  Merge branch 'overlayfs-next' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs.git

Crash: WARNING: bad unlock balance in copy_process (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH Next] copy_mnt_ns(): Remove unnecessary unlock 3 (3) 2025/09/24 17:56
[syzbot] [fs?] WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock 2 (5) 2025/09/24 11:45
Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/09/24 10:41 25m eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next OK log
2025/09/24 09:06 55m eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next report log

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
syzkaller #0 Not tainted
-------------------------------------
syz.0.45/6245 is trying to release lock (namespace_sem) at:
[<ffffffff82401096>] namespace_unlock+0x486/0x760 fs/namespace.c:1705
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by syz.0.45/6245.

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6245 Comm: syz.0.45 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_unlock_imbalance_bug+0xdc/0xf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5298
 __lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5527 [inline]
 lock_release+0x212/0x3e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5889
 up_write+0x2d/0x420 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1642
 namespace_unlock+0x486/0x760 fs/namespace.c:1705
 class_namespace_excl_destructor fs/namespace.c:96 [inline]
 copy_mnt_ns+0x6e5/0x880 fs/namespace.c:4176
 create_new_namespaces+0xd1/0x720 kernel/nsproxy.c:78
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x11c/0x170 kernel/nsproxy.c:218
 ksys_unshare+0x4c8/0x8c0 kernel/fork.c:3198
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3269 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3267 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x50 kernel/fork.c:3267
 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: 0033:0x7f5a3d18eec9
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:00007f5a3df98038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000110
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5a3d3e6180 RCX: 00007f5a3d18eec9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000040020000
RBP: 00007f5a3d211f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5a3d3e6218 R14: 00007f5a3d3e6180 R15: 00007fffccee9248
 </TASK>

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/24 14:55 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
2025/09/24 11:59 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
2025/09/24 08:56 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
2025/09/24 06:45 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
2025/09/24 13:40 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
2025/09/24 00:38 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
2025/09/24 00:37 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
2025/09/24 00:21 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
2025/09/24 00:19 linux-next ce7f1a983b07 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: bad unlock balance in namespace_unlock
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.