WARNING in free_conf

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/21 11:07
Subsystems: raid
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+6a132745caefcf42cb0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 22d, last: 10d
Cause bisection: the cause commit could be any of (bisect log):
  4ec1a08d2031 slab: allow NUMA restricted allocations to use percpu sheaves
  4957089a23f4 locking/local_lock: Introduce local_lock_is_locked().
  
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
e2cead67 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ ❓ WARNING in free_conf 2026/09/25 13:43 2026/09/25 13:44 2026/09/25 15:33 f281d9d2
dea7131d assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ WARNING in free_conf 2026/09/19 00:00 2026/09/19 00:00 2026/09/19 00:41 853b104b
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Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] md/raid5: drain released_stripes before destroying the cache 2 (2) 2026/10/04 04:17
[syzbot] [raid?] WARNING in free_conf 0 (3) 2026/09/27 13:07
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 WARNING in free_conf -1 syz, C 1 19d 19d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/20 15:23
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/27 13:07 9m nsvatoslav515@gmail.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 6812ce4e4379 error job log
2026/09/25 16:20 1h40m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 165768bb70265b5c38cf0b73fafd75be235f8b14 report job log log

Sample crash report:
WARNING: mm/slub.c:1268 at __slab_err+0x15/0x20 mm/slub.c:1268, CPU#1: syz-executor275/6205
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6205 Comm: syz-executor275 Tainted: G    B               syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:__slab_err+0x15/0x20 mm/slub.c:1268
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 e8 2b 00 00 00 bf 05 00 00 00 be 01 00 00 00 e8 fc 5e 5f 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 53 68 34 0a cc 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005edf840 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8187415a RBX: ffff8880384d0780 RCX: ffff88802d033e80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2554615 R12: ffffea0000efae10
R13: ffffea0000ee2c00 R14: ffffc90005edf858 R15: ffff88803f73f000
FS:  00007f07f772f6c0(0000) GS:ffff888125cc4000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000001000 CR3: 0000000040738000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 free_partial mm/slub.c:8122 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x1b7/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:8165
 kmem_cache_destroy+0x9d/0x180 mm/slab_common.c:576
 shrink_stripes drivers/md/raid5.c:2719 [inline]
 free_conf+0x1fc/0x5d0 drivers/md/raid5.c:7553
 setup_conf+0x1770/0x2b20 drivers/md/raid5.c:7885
 raid5_takeover_raid1 drivers/md/raid5.c:8934 [inline]
 raid5_takeover+0x641/0x8d0 drivers/md/raid5.c:9045
 level_store+0x83b/0x1d10 drivers/md/md.c:4134
 md_attr_store+0x3b7/0x640 drivers/md/md.c:6158
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a5/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x61e/0xbb0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f07f775ed59
Code: c0 79 93 eb d5 48 8d 7c 1d 00 eb 99 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 d0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f07f772f1d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f07f7809ba8 RCX: 00007f07f775ed59
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: 0000200000000300 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f07f7809ba0 R08: 36203a6b63617473 R09: 36203a6b63617473
R10: 36203a6b63617473 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f07f77da808
R13: 0000200000001400 R14: 0000200000001100 R15: 0000200000001500
 </TASK>

Crashes (30):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/29 04:04 upstream 72d3fcf802c4 7bf4ea23 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/25 18:01 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 165768bb7026 8d7d05f1 .config console log report C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 13:15 upstream 72d3fcf802c4 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 13:04 upstream 72d3fcf802c4 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 11:58 upstream 72d3fcf802c4 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 11:56 upstream 72d3fcf802c4 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 03:07 upstream efb44d93a620 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 03:06 upstream efb44d93a620 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 02:50 upstream efb44d93a620 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 02:50 upstream efb44d93a620 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/27 23:27 upstream efb44d93a620 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/27 14:45 upstream fd179f8a05be a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/26 15:01 upstream 6812ce4e4379 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/26 15:00 upstream 6812ce4e4379 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/26 05:22 upstream aa98230e410f f281d9d2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 14:57 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 13:02 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 13:00 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 12:39 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 11:39 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:47 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:28 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:16 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:14 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:03 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 13:29 upstream 238650ef6c7c 4a607247 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 09:50 upstream 72d3fcf802c4 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/28 02:53 upstream d266640c6c76 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/24 21:26 upstream 5fc5768c7ca9 27d05fb3 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/22 17:47 upstream 50d05c7c76c9 3e2106e5 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in free_conf
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.