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kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/06 06:36
Subsystems: netfs
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Reported-by: syzbot+9c058f0d63475adc97fd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: netfs: Fix kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter() for ITER_KVEC iterators
Patched on: [ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 6d19h, last: 57m
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] netfs: Fix kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter() for ITER_KVEC iterators 3 (3) 2026/03/09 09:17
[syzbot] [netfs?] kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter 2 (6) 2026/03/07 14:12
Last patch testing requests (3)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/03/07 13:51 20m dhowells@redhat.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git c107785c7e8d OK log
2026/03/07 08:24 20m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream OK log
2026/03/07 07:26 12m dhowells@redhat.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git c107785c7e8d report log

Sample crash report:
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kernel BUG at fs/netfs/iterator.c:248!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 6437 Comm: syz.9.39 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:netfs_limit_iter+0x100d/0x1100 fs/netfs/iterator.c:248
Code: ff e9 a4 f4 ff ff 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 a0 db ab 8e e8 e8 3f 74 fe e9 59 f6 ff ff e8 9e e8 b1 ff e9 6f f6 ff ff e8 74 6b 45 ff 90 <0f> 0b e8 fc e7 b1 ff e9 cd f9 ff ff 4c 89 f6 48 c7 c7 20 dc ab 8e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900040e6d18 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff82c3391b
RDX: ffff8880298a0000 RSI: ffffffff82c3484c RDI: ffff8880298a0000
RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000005
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000012 R12: 000000007fffffff
R13: 1ffff9200081cda9 R14: ffff88801c7f3960 R15: ffff888022886580
FS:  000055556085f500(0000) GS:ffff8880d6644000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000c008fdc000 CR3: 000000002f279000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 netfs_unbuffered_write+0x25d/0x2080 fs/netfs/direct_write.c:128
 netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked+0x801/0xab0 fs/netfs/direct_write.c:287
 netfs_unbuffered_write_iter+0x40c/0x710 fs/netfs/direct_write.c:377
 v9fs_file_write_iter+0xbf/0x100 fs/9p/vfs_file.c:409
 __kernel_write_iter+0x2ac/0x920 fs/read_write.c:621
 __kernel_write+0xf6/0x140 fs/read_write.c:641
 __dump_emit fs/coredump.c:1221 [inline]
 dump_emit+0x21f/0x330 fs/coredump.c:1259
 elf_core_dump+0x2127/0x3d10 fs/binfmt_elf.c:2062
 coredump_write fs/coredump.c:1050 [inline]
 do_coredump fs/coredump.c:1127 [inline]
 vfs_coredump+0x27bc/0x5570 fs/coredump.c:1201
 get_signal+0x1f2a/0x21e0 kernel/signal.c:3019
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x91/0x7a0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:98 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:270 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:339 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x1f8/0x670 kernel/entry/common.c:219
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
RIP: 0033:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 002b:0000200000000088 EFLAGS: 00010217
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f5120e15fa0 RCX: 00007f5120b9c799
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: 0000000000008000
RBP: 00007f5120c32bd9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5120e15fac R14: 00007f5120e15fa0 R15: 00007f5120e15fa0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:netfs_limit_iter+0x100d/0x1100 fs/netfs/iterator.c:248
Code: ff e9 a4 f4 ff ff 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 a0 db ab 8e e8 e8 3f 74 fe e9 59 f6 ff ff e8 9e e8 b1 ff e9 6f f6 ff ff e8 74 6b 45 ff 90 <0f> 0b e8 fc e7 b1 ff e9 cd f9 ff ff 4c 89 f6 48 c7 c7 20 dc ab 8e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900040e6d18 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff82c3391b
RDX: ffff8880298a0000 RSI: ffffffff82c3484c RDI: ffff8880298a0000
RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000005
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000012 R12: 000000007fffffff
R13: 1ffff9200081cda9 R14: ffff88801c7f3960 R15: ffff888022886580
FS:  000055556085f500(0000) GS:ffff8880d6644000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000c008fdc000 CR3: 000000002f279000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0

Crashes (121):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/05 14:11 upstream c107785c7e8d d20b04c8 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/05 13:32 upstream c107785c7e8d d20b04c8 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/05 12:50 upstream c107785c7e8d d20b04c8 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/12 06:32 upstream 80234b5ab240 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/12 06:09 upstream 80234b5ab240 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/12 03:01 upstream b29fb8829bff 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 23:53 upstream b29fb8829bff 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 20:21 upstream b29fb8829bff 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 19:05 upstream b29fb8829bff 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 16:28 upstream b29fb8829bff 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 12:45 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 11:13 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 09:09 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 05:26 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 02:27 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 00:02 upstream b4f0dd314b39 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/10 22:27 upstream b4f0dd314b39 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/10 20:33 upstream 1f318b96cc84 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/10 15:44 upstream 1f318b96cc84 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/10 14:36 upstream 1f318b96cc84 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/10 12:35 upstream 1f318b96cc84 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/10 10:40 upstream 1f318b96cc84 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/10 05:54 upstream 1f318b96cc84 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/09 22:03 upstream 1f318b96cc84 176bead5 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/09 20:46 upstream 1f318b96cc84 176bead5 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/09 11:50 upstream 014441d1e4b2 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/09 07:40 upstream 014441d1e4b2 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/09 05:58 upstream 014441d1e4b2 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/09 03:48 upstream 014441d1e4b2 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/09 02:06 upstream 014441d1e4b2 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 22:26 upstream c23719abc330 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 19:04 upstream c23719abc330 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 16:26 upstream c23719abc330 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 12:27 upstream c23719abc330 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 11:19 upstream c23719abc330 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 08:58 upstream 03dcad79eec3 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 08:08 upstream 03dcad79eec3 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 05:54 upstream 03dcad79eec3 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 03:05 upstream 03dcad79eec3 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 00:10 upstream 03dcad79eec3 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/07 18:56 upstream 4ae12d8bd9a8 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/07 15:20 upstream 4ae12d8bd9a8 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/07 13:46 upstream 4ae12d8bd9a8 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/11 22:48 upstream b29fb8829bff 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/09 11:14 upstream 014441d1e4b2 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
2026/03/08 21:06 upstream c23719abc330 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.