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WARNING in ovl_create_real (4)

Status: closed as dup on 2026/01/20 12:41
Subsystems: overlayfs
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Reported-by: syzbot+2214f6a425ea963a605b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10d, last: 10d
Duplicate of
Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported
WARNING in ovl_create_real (3) overlayfs -1 1 133d 129d
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[syzbot] [overlayfs?] WARNING in ovl_create_real (4) 1 (2) 2026/01/20 12:41
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in ovl_create_real (3) overlayfs -1 1 133d 129d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/24 12:20
upstream WARNING in ovl_create_real (2) overlayfs -1 2 406d 409d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/26 06:48
upstream WARNING in ovl_create_real overlayfs -1 C unreliable 164 1541d 1609d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/08 16:11

Sample crash report:
overlayfs: ...falling back to redirect_dir=nofollow.
overlayfs: ...falling back to index=off.
overlayfs: ...falling back to uuid=null.
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WARNING: fs/overlayfs/dir.c:214 at ovl_create_real+0x9af/0xbd0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:214, CPU#2: syz.2.9540/3063
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 3063 Comm: syz.2.9540 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ovl_create_real+0x9af/0xbd0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:214
Code: 8b 48 c7 c7 c8 2b 79 90 e8 1e 42 98 01 44 0f b6 3d 41 5a 31 0d e9 dc fa ff ff e8 fc 05 e1 fe e9 67 f8 ff ff e8 12 2a 77 fe 90 <0f> 0b 90 49 c7 c4 fb ff ff ff e9 ac f8 ff ff 49 c7 c4 fe ff ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000518f4b0 EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: 000000000001eb61 RBX: ffff88802d846758 RCX: ffffc9002830b000
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff8347d1be RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: ffff88803bd2f490 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff888033102ff0 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888034d2a800 R14: ffff88802d8467c0 R15: ffff888035c6e2e0
FS:  00007f0d6ec506c0(0000) GS:ffff8880d6af2000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b333dcff8 CR3: 000000005d5af000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
DR0: ffffffffffffffff DR1: 00000000000001f8 DR2: 0000000000000083
DR3: ffffffffefffff15 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ovl_create_temp+0x54/0xb0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:253
 ovl_copy_up_workdir fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:778 [inline]
 ovl_do_copy_up fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:988 [inline]
 ovl_copy_up_one+0xc4e/0x3c40 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:1189
 ovl_copy_up_flags+0x18f/0x240 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:1243
 ovl_rename_start fs/overlayfs/dir.c:1161 [inline]
 ovl_rename+0x270/0x6b0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:1348
 vfs_rename+0x1021/0x2390 fs/namei.c:5938
 do_renameat2+0x71c/0x9b0 fs/namei.c:6056
 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:6099 [inline]
 __se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:6097 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rename+0x7d/0xa0 fs/namei.c:6097
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0d6dd8f7c9
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:00007f0d6ec50038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0d6dfe5fa0 RCX: 00007f0d6dd8f7c9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000180 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f0d6de13f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0d6dfe6038 R14: 00007f0d6dfe5fa0 R15: 00007fffee2fe808
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/16 01:06 upstream 603c05a1639f d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in ovl_create_real
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.