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WARNING in file_remove_privs_flags

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/05/12 16:39
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+bc273027d5643e48e5b3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d03h, last: 4d03h

Sample crash report:
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d_inode(dentry) != file_inode(file)
WARNING: ./include/linux/fs.h:1368 at file_dentry include/linux/fs.h:1368 [inline], CPU#0: kworker/u8:14/1529
WARNING: ./include/linux/fs.h:1368 at file_remove_privs_flags+0x58c/0x640 fs/inode.c:2313, CPU#0: kworker/u8:14/1529
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1529 Comm: kworker/u8:14 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Workqueue: loop3 loop_workfn
RIP: 0010:file_dentry include/linux/fs.h:1368 [inline]
RIP: 0010:file_remove_privs_flags+0x58c/0x640 fs/inode.c:2313
Code: 00 75 4d 44 89 e8 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc e8 1f 82 83 ff e9 90 fe ff ff e8 15 82 83 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 85 fb ff ff 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c b7
RSP: 0018:ffffc90006adf480 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8240f23b RBX: ffff888035ab6ca0 RCX: ffff888029b19ec0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90006adf5d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f11cdf R12: ffff888041268ab8
R13: 1ffff11006b56d94 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffff1100824d157
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888126176000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005555802efa68 CR3: 000000001fbda000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xaa/0x120 mm/shmem.c:3472
 lo_rw_aio+0xc80/0xf00 include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:-1
 do_req_filebacked drivers/block/loop.c:433 [inline]
 loop_handle_cmd drivers/block/loop.c:1925 [inline]
 loop_process_work+0x637/0x11b0 drivers/block/loop.c:1960
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3385
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3466
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/08 16:34 upstream 917719c412c4 b2988c17 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in file_remove_privs_flags
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.