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WARNING in page_counter_uncharge (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/28 05:14
Subsystems: mm cgroups
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Reported-by: syzbot+226c1f947186f8fef796@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d12h, last: 2d10h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb cgroup rsvd charge/uncharge mismatch 2 (2) 2026/03/30 20:15
[syzbot] [mm?] [cgroups?] WARNING in page_counter_uncharge (2) 1 (3) 2026/03/28 06:09
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in page_counter_uncharge cgroups mm -1 C done done 2 1552d 1552d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/08 16:11
linux-6.1 WARNING in page_counter_uncharge origin:lts-only -1 C error 3 84d 120d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/01 06:16
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/03/28 06:09 33m kartikey406@gmail.com patch net OK log

Sample crash report:
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page_counter underflow: -512 nr_pages=512
WARNING: mm/page_counter.c:61 at page_counter_cancel mm/page_counter.c:60 [inline], CPU#1: syz.0.3396/16434
WARNING: mm/page_counter.c:61 at page_counter_uncharge+0xd2/0x150 mm/page_counter.c:184, CPU#1: syz.0.3396/16434
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 16434 Comm: syz.0.3396 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:page_counter_cancel mm/page_counter.c:60 [inline]
RIP: 0010:page_counter_uncharge+0xd8/0x150 mm/page_counter.c:184
Code: f7 e8 7c 88 f8 ff 4d 8b 36 4d 85 f6 74 6e e8 cf 3f 8e ff e9 6c ff ff ff e8 c5 3f 8e ff 48 8d 3d 2e ea df 0d 4c 89 fe 48 89 da <67> 48 0f b9 3a 4c 89 f7 be 08 00 00 00 e8 e6 8a f8 ff 4c 89 f0 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000da772b0 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: ffffffff82376eab RBX: 0000000000000200 RCX: ffff88807c631e80
RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: fffffffffffffe00 RDI: ffffffff901758e0
RBP: fffffffffffffe00 R08: ffff888032fd5387 R09: 1ffff110065faa70
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10065faa71 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff888032fd5380 R15: fffffffffffffe00
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88812555a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f14ec9d5ff8 CR3: 000000000e54c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio+0x15e/0x510 mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c:354
 free_huge_folio+0xaef/0x11e0 mm/hugetlb.c:1782
 folios_put_refs+0x553/0x8d0 mm/swap.c:983
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:101 [inline]
 remove_inode_hugepages+0xf50/0x11a0 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:608
 hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0xaf/0x260 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:623
 evict+0x61e/0xb10 fs/inode.c:846
 __dentry_kill+0x1a2/0x5e0 fs/dcache.c:670
 finish_dput+0xc9/0x480 fs/dcache.c:879
 __fput+0x691/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:477
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x70f/0x23c0 kernel/exit.c:976
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1118
 get_signal+0x1284/0x1330 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x830 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x86/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f14ebb9c799
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f14ebb9c76f.
RSP: 002b:00007f14ec9d60e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00007f14ebe16098 RCX: 00007f14ebb9c799
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f14ebe16098
RBP: 00007f14ebe16090 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f14ebe16128 R14: 00007ffc404c7910 R15: 00007ffc404c79f8
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	f7 e8                	imul   %eax
   2:	7c 88                	jl     0xffffff8c
   4:	f8                   	clc
   5:	ff 4d 8b             	decl   -0x75(%rbp)
   8:	36 4d 85 f6          	ss test %r14,%r14
   c:	74 6e                	je     0x7c
   e:	e8 cf 3f 8e ff       	call   0xff8e3fe2
  13:	e9 6c ff ff ff       	jmp    0xffffff84
  18:	e8 c5 3f 8e ff       	call   0xff8e3fe2
  1d:	48 8d 3d 2e ea df 0d 	lea    0xddfea2e(%rip),%rdi        # 0xddfea52
  24:	4c 89 fe             	mov    %r15,%rsi
  27:	48 89 da             	mov    %rbx,%rdx
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
  32:	be 08 00 00 00       	mov    $0x8,%esi
  37:	e8 e6 8a f8 ff       	call   0xfff88b22
  3c:	4c 89 f0             	mov    %r14,%rax
  3f:	48                   	rex.W

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/28 01:36 net 5597dd284ff8 74a13a23 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in page_counter_uncharge
2026/03/27 21:51 net 5597dd284ff8 74a13a23 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in page_counter_uncharge
2026/03/28 22:49 net dc9e9d61e301 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in page_counter_uncharge
2026/03/27 20:27 net 5597dd284ff8 74a13a23 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in page_counter_uncharge
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.