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WARNING in minix_rmdir

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/27 21:41
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+ad0c1f4d763cfeb7f15c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 14d
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/12/29 linux-6.6.y (ToT) 5fa4793a2d2d C [report] WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/29 upstream (ToT) f8f9c1f4d0c7 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 WARNING in minix_rmdir -1 C done 1 95d 95d 3/3 fixed on 2025/11/17 11:56
linux-5.15 WARNING in minix_rmdir -1 1 414d 414d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/04 02:00
linux-5.15 WARNING in minix_rmdir (2) origin:upstream -1 C 9 10d 169d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/27 03:10
upstream WARNING in minix_rmdir fs -1 C inconclusive 92 55d 369d 29/29 fixed on 2026/01/07 12:29

Sample crash report:
minix_free_inode: bit 5 already cleared
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5881 at fs/inode.c:332 drop_nlink+0xbf/0x100 fs/inode.c:332
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 5881 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:drop_nlink+0xbf/0x100 fs/inode.c:332
Code: 48 8b 1b 48 8d bb 78 07 00 00 be 08 00 00 00 e8 e7 48 ea ff f0 48 ff 83 78 07 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 e8 01 d9 92 ff <0f> 0b eb 88 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 62 ff ff ff 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032f7cb0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff81f2b7bf RBX: ffff8880615e8590 RCX: ffff8880246fbc00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8e4a212f R09: 1ffffffff1c94425
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c94426 R12: 1ffff1100c2bd0bd
R13: ffff8880615e8040 R14: ffff8880615e85e8 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00005555654e6500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f416e1ff000 CR3: 000000001dfb0000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_dec_link_count include/linux/fs.h:2340 [inline]
 minix_rmdir+0x225/0x280 fs/minix/namei.c:171
 vfs_rmdir+0x370/0x4d0 fs/namei.c:4204
 do_rmdir+0x29e/0x5c0 fs/namei.c:4263
 __do_sys_unlinkat fs/namei.c:4441 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlinkat fs/namei.c:4435 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc4/0xe0 fs/namei.c:4435
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f3ebab8ed27
Code: 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 07 01 00 00 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:00007ffc20c6a118 EFLAGS: 00000207 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000065 RCX: 00007f3ebab8ed27
RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 00007ffc20c6b2c0 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 00007f3ebac13d7d R08: 00005555655116ab R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000001000 R11: 0000000000000207 R12: 00007ffc20c6b2c0
R13: 00007f3ebac13d7d R14: 00000000000186a6 R15: 00007ffc20c6d480
 </TASK>

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/28 08:22 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/28 06:51 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/28 05:28 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/28 04:14 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/28 02:58 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/28 01:43 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/28 00:05 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/28 21:09 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/27 21:43 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/27 21:41 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
2025/12/27 21:41 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in minix_rmdir
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.