BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in ntfs_lock_new_page

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/30 06:22
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+7bb205a21743a78fdd7b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 176d, last: 10d
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/09/12 linux-6.1.y (ToT) cf82dcca9634 C [report] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in ntfs_lock_new_page
2026/09/12 upstream (ToT) 5225b8eec4c9 C Didn't crash

Sample crash report:
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x290 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
 el0_svc_common+0x13c/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 do_el0_svc+0x5c/0x134 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:204
 el0_svc+0x58/0x128 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655
 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:585
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000000001
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000006
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
  CM = 0, WnR = 0
[dfff800000000001] address between user and kernel address ranges
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 4523 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/14/2026
pstate: 02400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : PageTail include/linux/page-flags.h:292 [inline]
pc : folio_flags include/linux/page-flags.h:319 [inline]
pc : folio_test_uptodate include/linux/page-flags.h:719 [inline]
pc : ntfs_lock_new_page+0x64/0x3e4 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2163
lr : ntfs_lock_new_page+0x40/0x3e4 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2156
sp : ffff800020be7490
x29: ffff800020be7490 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: 0000000000100cca
x26: ffff0000d1d35600 x25: 000000000000000f x24: 0000000000000001
x23: dfff800000000000 x22: 0000000000000008 x21: 0000000000000001
x20: 0000000000100cca x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 1fffe00033e6df7e
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff8000082dd25c x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 1ffff00002ac828a x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ff008000086f2550 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 82d184a4d36b4800
x8 : 82d184a4d36b4800 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffff800020be6878 x4 : ffff800015484e80 x3 : ffff80000aae4838
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 PageTail include/linux/page-flags.h:292 [inline]
 folio_flags include/linux/page-flags.h:319 [inline]
 folio_test_uptodate include/linux/page-flags.h:719 [inline]
 ntfs_lock_new_page+0x64/0x3e4 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2163
 ni_readpage_cmpr+0x278/0x778 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2229
 ntfs_read_folio+0x148/0x1bc fs/ntfs3/inode.c:728
 filemap_read_folio+0x134/0x384 mm/filemap.c:2490
 filemap_create_folio mm/filemap.c:2619 [inline]
 filemap_get_pages mm/filemap.c:2672 [inline]
 filemap_read+0xc78/0x20dc mm/filemap.c:2759
 generic_file_read_iter+0xf8/0x5ac mm/filemap.c:2941
 ntfs_file_read_iter+0x184/0x1e0 fs/ntfs3/file.c:771
 call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2265 [inline]
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:389 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x3cc/0x7b8 fs/read_write.c:470
 ksys_read+0x12c/0x228 fs/read_write.c:613
 __do_sys_read fs/read_write.c:623 [inline]
 __se_sys_read fs/read_write.c:621 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_read+0x7c/0x90 fs/read_write.c:621
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x290 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
 el0_svc_common+0x13c/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 do_el0_svc+0x5c/0x134 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:204
 el0_svc+0x58/0x128 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655
 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:585
Code: 91002276 d2d00017 d343fed8 f2fbfff7 (38776b08) 
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	91002276 	add	x22, x19, #0x8
   4:	d2d00017 	mov	x23, #0x800000000000        	// #140737488355328
   8:	d343fed8 	lsr	x24, x22, #3
   c:	f2fbfff7 	movk	x23, #0xdfff, lsl #48
* 10:	38776b08 	ldrb	w8, [x24, x23] <-- trapping instruction

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/06 12:51 linux-6.1.y cf82dcca9634 4f7b22a0 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in ntfs_lock_new_page
2026/03/30 07:07 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 b5ceaad2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in ntfs_lock_new_page
2026/03/30 06:47 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 b5ceaad2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in ntfs_lock_new_page
2026/09/06 12:23 linux-6.1.y cf82dcca9634 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in ntfs_lock_new_page
2026/03/30 06:21 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 b5ceaad2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in ntfs_lock_new_page
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.