WARNING in get_probe_ref

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/09/03 17:29
Reported-by: syzbot+594f82cdeec3292cdc9a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d02h, last: 22h03m
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 WARNING in get_probe_ref -1 syz 5 4h48m 3d03h 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/09/03 15:58
upstream WARNING in get_probe_ref prio:low block trace -1 syz, C done error 48 5h24m 2302d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/05/18 03:12

Sample crash report:
RBP: 00007f6808235024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6808425fac R14: 00007f6808425fa0 R15: 00007f6808425fa0
 </TASK>
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5938 at kernel/trace/blktrace.c:1104 blk_register_tracepoints kernel/trace/blktrace.c:1104 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5938 at kernel/trace/blktrace.c:1104 get_probe_ref+0x34c/0x3e0 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:337
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 5938 Comm: syz.0.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:blk_register_tracepoints kernel/trace/blktrace.c:1104 [inline]
RIP: 0010:get_probe_ref+0x34c/0x3e0 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:337
Code: ff e8 88 22 f9 ff 0f 0b e9 65 fd ff ff e8 7c 22 f9 ff 0f 0b e9 86 fd ff ff e8 70 22 f9 ff 0f 0b e9 a7 fd ff ff e8 64 22 f9 ff <0f> 0b e9 c8 fd ff ff e8 58 22 f9 ff 0f 0b e9 e9 fd ff ff e8 4c 22
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032d7b88 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff818e600c RBX: 00000000fffffff4 RCX: ffff88802d571e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fffffff4 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 1ffff1100ed1e506 R08: ffffc900032d7ac7 R09: 1ffff9200065af58
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200065af59 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff8880768f2800
FS:  0000555589c2b500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000003ac0 CR3: 0000000076869000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 do_blk_trace_setup+0x7f8/0x9e0 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:612
 __blk_trace_setup kernel/trace/blktrace.c:631 [inline]
 blk_trace_ioctl+0x3e2/0x560 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:741
 blkdev_ioctl+0x44b/0x730 block/ioctl.c:628
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f680819e159
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:00007ffdc5afb8f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6808425fa0 RCX: 00007f680819e159
RDX: 0000200000000440 RSI: 00000000c0481273 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f6808235024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6808425fac R14: 00007f6808425fa0 R15: 00007f6808425fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/05 21:45 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f 4f7b22a0 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in get_probe_ref
2026/09/03 17:29 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f 6a988719 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in get_probe_ref
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.