WARNING in max_vclocks_store

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/18 02:44
Reported-by: syzbot+43bc45ed5fba5dfc763f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d21h, last: 2d00h
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in max_vclocks_store mm net -1 syz, C 3 386d 621d 29/29 fixed on 2025/10/29 21:02
linux-6.6 WARNING in max_vclocks_store -1 2 34d 34d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/08/17 09:49

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4348 at mm/page_alloc.c:5476 current_gfp_context include/linux/sched/mm.h:-1 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4348 at mm/page_alloc.c:5476 __alloc_pages+0x39f/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5488
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 4348 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x39f/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5476
Code: 31 ff e9 b1 fe ff ff e8 af c0 0c 08 44 89 e1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 4f fd ff ff 4c 89 e7 e8 06 d4 09 00 e9 42 fd ff ff <0f> 0b 45 31 ff e9 ee fe ff ff 65 44 8b 2d f7 a0 4d 7e 41 83 fd 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002f5fa20 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffc90002f5fa60 RBX: 1ffff920005ebf48 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000028 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90002f5fa88
RBP: ffffc90002f5fb18 R08: ffffc90002f5fa87 R09: ffffc90002f5fa60
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520005ebf51 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000040dc0 R15: 000000000000000b
FS:  000055555cff2500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b31a63fff CR3: 0000000071b39000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 kmalloc_order+0x40/0x150 mm/slab_common.c:986
 kmalloc_order_trace+0x14/0xf0 mm/slab_common.c:1002
 kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:647 [inline]
 kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:676 [inline]
 max_vclocks_store+0x22e/0x3b0 drivers/ptp/ptp_sysfs.c:283
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x500 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2179 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x748/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f71b60d1159
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:00007fff5ef583a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f71b6358fa0 RCX: 00007f71b60d1159
RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f71b616806b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f71b6358fac R14: 00007f71b6358fa0 R15: 00007f71b6358fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/18 23:10 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 853b104b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in max_vclocks_store
2026/09/18 02:44 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in max_vclocks_store
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.