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BUG: Bad rss-counter state (6)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/08 00:32
Reported-by: syzbot+5981772e2b70777a3b01@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 146d, last: 4h45m
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[syzbot] BUG: Bad rss-counter state (6) 0 (1) 2026/02/08 00:32
Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream BUG: Bad rss-counter state -1 syz 20 3062d 3026d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/10/31 09:42
upstream BUG: Bad rss-counter state (2) kernel -1 11 2976d 2978d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/02/01 12:07
linux-4.19 BUG: Bad rss-counter state -1 C error 18 1596d 2141d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/04/03 02:55
upstream BUG: Bad rss-counter state (4) -1 C done unreliable 124 1004d 2096d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/23 09:04
linux-4.14 BUG: Bad rss-counter state (2) -1 4 1797d 1894d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/07/10 23:34
linux-4.14 BUG: Bad rss-counter state -1 1 2253d 2253d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/04/11 05:38
linux-6.6 BUG: Bad rss-counter state -1 1 145d 145d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/28 14:06
upstream BUG: Bad rss-counter state (5) mm -1 C done 2365 214d 640d 29/29 fixed on 2025/08/07 23:42
upstream BUG: Bad rss-counter state (3) -1 C unreliable done 438 2390d 2856d 15/29 fixed on 2020/01/31 18:49
android-54 BUG: Bad rss-counter state -1 C 15 270d 2103d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/05/11 02:06
android-49 BUG: Bad rss-counter state -1 11325 2262d 2496d 0/3 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/03/03 11:04

Sample crash report:
mkiss: ax0: crc mode is auto.
BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88807a3d1880 type:MM_SHMEMPAGES val:1 Comm:syz.1.2859 Pid:19306
page: refcount:3 mapcount:1 mapping:ffff888021efb760 index:0x0 pfn:0x52395
memcg:ffff888140ef1a80
aops:shmem_aops ino:11a7
flags: 0xfff6000002002d(locked|referenced|uptodate|lru|swapbacked|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff6000002002d ffffea0001339148 ffffea00014b2888 ffff888021efb760
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000300000000 ffff888140ef1a80
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_mapped(folio))
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x140cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP), pid 19306, tgid 19304 (syz.1.2859), ts 835473201103, free_ts 830460169091
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1e1/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1884
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1892 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x111d/0x3140 mm/page_alloc.c:3945
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x26c/0x2410 mm/page_alloc.c:5240
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x1fb/0x550 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 folio_alloc_mpol_noprof+0x36/0x340 mm/mempolicy.c:2505
 shmem_alloc_folio+0x135/0x160 mm/shmem.c:1919
 shmem_alloc_and_add_folio+0x371/0xd40 mm/shmem.c:1961
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x6ab/0x1900 mm/shmem.c:2585
 shmem_fault+0x1f9/0xa20 mm/shmem.c:2786
 __do_fault+0x10d/0x550 mm/memory.c:5323
 do_shared_fault mm/memory.c:5822 [inline]
 do_fault+0x2db/0x1990 mm/memory.c:5896
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4404 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6276 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault+0x1807/0x2b50 mm/memory.c:6414
 handle_mm_fault+0x36d/0xa20 mm/memory.c:6583
 do_user_addr_fault+0x74c/0x12f0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1385
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1474 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x6f/0xd0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1527
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
page last free pid 19148 tgid 19148 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xb2a/0x1760 mm/page_alloc.c:3030
 folios_put_refs+0x53c/0x840 mm/swap.c:1002
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:101 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x5e5/0x1570 mm/shmem.c:1150
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1278 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x39e/0xbd0 mm/shmem.c:1408
 evict+0x3c2/0xad0 fs/inode.c:837
 iput_final fs/inode.c:1957 [inline]
 iput.part.0+0x605/0xf50 fs/inode.c:2006
 iput+0x35/0x40 fs/inode.c:1972
 dentry_unlink_inode+0x2a1/0x490 fs/dcache.c:467
 __dentry_kill+0x1d0/0x600 fs/dcache.c:670
 finish_dput+0x76/0x480 fs/dcache.c:879
 dput.part.0+0x456/0x570 fs/dcache.c:928
 dput+0x1f/0x30 fs/dcache.c:920
 __fput+0x519/0xb40 fs/file_table.c:477
 task_work_run+0x150/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x829/0x2a30 kernel/exit.c:971
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1112
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:155!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 19306 Comm: syz.1.2859 Tainted: G     U       L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [U]=USER, [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
RIP: 0010:filemap_unaccount_folio+0x728/0xb30 mm/filemap.c:155
Code: 00 48 8b b5 a0 01 00 00 48 89 df e8 b2 7d 03 00 e9 3c fd ff ff e8 98 3e c7 ff 48 c7 c6 80 22 9d 8b 48 89 df e8 89 9a 12 00 90 <0f> 0b e8 81 3e c7 ff 48 c7 c6 20 1d 9d 8b 48 89 df e8 72 9a 12 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b627208 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea000148e540 RCX: ffffc9000b6270ec
RDX: ffff8880226a8000 RSI: ffffffff8251f0a8 RDI: ffff8880226a8484
RBP: ffffea000148e570 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffffffffff6c98 R12: ffff888021efb760
R13: ffffea000148e548 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffea000148e558
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881246b1000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000017d000 CR3: 000000009088c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __filemap_remove_folio+0xae/0x660 mm/filemap.c:227
 filemap_remove_folio+0xfc/0x270 mm/filemap.c:257
 truncate_inode_folio+0x49/0x70 mm/truncate.c:176
 shmem_undo_range+0x3ae/0x1570 mm/shmem.c:1146
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1278 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x39e/0xbd0 mm/shmem.c:1408
 evict+0x3c2/0xad0 fs/inode.c:837
 iput_final fs/inode.c:1957 [inline]
 iput.part.0+0x605/0xf50 fs/inode.c:2006
 iput+0x35/0x40 fs/inode.c:1972
 dentry_unlink_inode+0x2a1/0x490 fs/dcache.c:467
 __dentry_kill+0x1d0/0x600 fs/dcache.c:670
 finish_dput+0x76/0x480 fs/dcache.c:879
 dput.part.0+0x456/0x570 fs/dcache.c:928
 dput+0x1f/0x30 fs/dcache.c:920
 __fput+0x519/0xb40 fs/file_table.c:477
 task_work_run+0x150/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x829/0x2a30 kernel/exit.c:971
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1112
 get_signal+0x1ec7/0x21e0 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x91/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x86/0x4a0 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+0x668/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f081ab9bf79
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f081ab9bf4f.
RSP: 002b:00007f0818dd50e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00007f081ae16098 RCX: 00007f081ab9bf79
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f081ae16098
RBP: 00007f081ae16090 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f081ae16128 R14: 00007ffee66a7360 R15: 00007ffee66a7448
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:filemap_unaccount_folio+0x728/0xb30 mm/filemap.c:155
Code: 00 48 8b b5 a0 01 00 00 48 89 df e8 b2 7d 03 00 e9 3c fd ff ff e8 98 3e c7 ff 48 c7 c6 80 22 9d 8b 48 89 df e8 89 9a 12 00 90 <0f> 0b e8 81 3e c7 ff 48 c7 c6 20 1d 9d 8b 48 89 df e8 72 9a 12 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b627208 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea000148e540 RCX: ffffc9000b6270ec
RDX: ffff8880226a8000 RSI: ffffffff8251f0a8 RDI: ffff8880226a8484
RBP: ffffea000148e570 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffffffffff6c98 R12: ffff888021efb760
R13: ffffea000148e548 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffea000148e558
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881246b1000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000017d000 CR3: 000000009088c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0

Crashes (92):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/12 06:48 upstream 1e83ccd5921a 76a109e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/12 00:57 upstream 1e83ccd5921a 76a109e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/11 23:44 upstream 1e83ccd5921a 76a109e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/11 21:58 upstream 192c0159402e 75707236 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/11 18:41 upstream 192c0159402e 75707236 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/11 17:38 upstream 192c0159402e 75707236 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/11 17:25 upstream 192c0159402e 75707236 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/11 15:57 upstream 192c0159402e 75707236 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/11 04:50 upstream dc855b77719f 441e25b7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 18:12 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:37 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:36 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:34 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:32 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:31 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:29 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:28 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:25 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:24 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:22 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:20 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:19 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:17 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:16 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:14 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:13 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:11 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:10 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:08 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:07 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:05 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:03 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:02 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 17:00 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:59 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:57 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:56 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:54 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:53 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:51 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:50 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:47 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:44 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/10 16:44 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/09 17:47 upstream 05f7e89ab973 df949cd9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/09 17:47 upstream 05f7e89ab973 df949cd9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/01/19 02:14 upstream e84d960149e7 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2025/09/19 11:06 upstream 097a6c336d00 67c37560 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/02/08 00:31 upstream e7aa57247700 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2025/11/06 00:27 bpf 44e8f13f07cf a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce BUG: Bad rss-counter state
2026/01/17 01:59 bpf-next 2acbd053c846 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce BUG: Bad rss-counter state
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.