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WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/07/31 16:10
Subsystems: kernfs
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Reported-by: syzbot+5ab23ab3166ecc1f994c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 155d, last: 27d
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[syzbot] [kernfs?] WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns 0 (1) 2025/07/31 16:10

Sample crash report:
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DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!test_bit(class_idx, lock_classes_in_use))
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 24907 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5207 __lock_acquire+0x139f/0x1c90 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5207
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 24907 Comm: syz.7.5079 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x139f/0x1c90 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5207
Code: 41 80 7e 21 00 0f 88 0c fe ff ff 4c 8b 44 24 08 e9 c0 fc ff ff 90 48 c7 c6 78 95 b3 8d 48 c7 c7 28 1b 9f 8d e8 92 63 e2 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 e9 ec f0 ff ff e8 53 e2 08 03 89 c3 e8 8c 9f ff ff 85
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000ca377f0 EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: ffffc9001f9a1000
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff817b1ce5 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff88805196a480 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000002bc40 R12: ffff88805196afb0
R13: ffff88805196b000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f19b6f916c0(0000) GS:ffff888124b05000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b30d12ff8 CR3: 0000000033223000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 lock_acquire kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x179/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
 down_write+0x92/0x200 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1590
 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3d/0x110 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1712
 sysfs_remove_file include/linux/sysfs.h:770 [inline]
 driver_remove_file drivers/base/driver.c:201 [inline]
 driver_remove_file+0x4a/0x60 drivers/base/driver.c:197
 remove_bind_files drivers/base/bus.c:605 [inline]
 bus_remove_driver+0x224/0x2c0 drivers/base/bus.c:743
 driver_unregister+0x76/0xb0 drivers/base/driver.c:277
 comedi_device_detach_locked+0x12f/0xa50 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:207
 do_devconfig_ioctl+0x555/0x710 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:848
 comedi_unlocked_ioctl+0x165d/0x2f00 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2178
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f19b918f749
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:00007f19b6f91038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f19b93e6270 RCX: 00007f19b918f749
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000040946400 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f19b9213f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f19b93e6308 R14: 00007f19b93e6270 R15: 00007ffc6fffd158
 </TASK>

Crashes (30):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/29 20:59 upstream 19eef1d98eed d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/11/25 01:21 upstream ac3fd01e4c1e 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/11/07 03:59 upstream c2c2ccfd4ba7 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/10/02 15:50 upstream 7f7072574127 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/29 04:07 upstream 8f9736633f8c 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/27 23:46 upstream 51a24b7deaae 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/27 23:33 upstream 51a24b7deaae 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/22 20:42 upstream 07e27ad16399 0ac7291c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/22 20:42 upstream 07e27ad16399 0ac7291c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/21 01:50 upstream 3b08f56fbbb9 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/19 05:44 upstream 097a6c336d00 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/18 19:57 upstream 8b789f2b7602 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/14 05:04 upstream 5cd64d4f9268 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/08 05:46 upstream 6ab41fca2e80 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/04 16:49 upstream b9a10f876409 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/08/22 23:12 upstream a2e94e80790b bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/08/09 19:01 upstream 0227b49b5027 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/08/04 01:14 upstream 038d61fd6422 7368264b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/07/27 16:03 upstream ec2df4364666 fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/10/02 13:08 upstream 7f7072574127 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/07 03:40 upstream b236920731dd d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/02 14:22 upstream b320789d6883 96a211bc .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/08/30 21:21 upstream 11e7861d680c 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/12/02 08:52 upstream 1d18101a644e d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/15 22:21 upstream f83ec76bf285 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/02 04:34 upstream b320789d6883 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/08/16 11:55 upstream d7ee5bdce789 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/11/01 10:21 linux-next 98bd8b16ae57 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/09/06 06:12 linux-next be5d4872e528 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
2025/07/28 01:35 linux-next d086c886ceb9 fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: locking bug in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.