WARNING in check_buffer

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/27 19:37
Reported-by: syzbot+c202c0341faf948688f8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 23d, last: 2d08h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in check_buffer -1 syz, C 4 3d17h 23d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/27 18:46

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7975 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3526 check_buffer+0x88a/0x930 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3526
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 7975 Comm: syz.7.1187 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:check_buffer+0x88a/0x930 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3526
Code: 4c 89 ee e8 68 bf 9f 08 48 c7 c7 20 14 c6 96 be 04 00 00 00 e8 87 1d 4e 00 f0 ff 0d 20 d5 40 15 e9 91 fe ff ff e8 16 ef fc ff <0f> 0b e9 e2 fe ff ff 89 d9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 20 f8 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900050bf5c0 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: ffffffff81853f0a RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9001dc00000 RSI: 0000000000000077 RDI: 0000000000000078
RBP: ffffc900050bf778 R08: ffff888017478807 R09: 1ffff11002e8f100
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1002e8f101 R12: 0000001c1e0eb826
R13: 0000000000000460 R14: ffff888017478800 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f4a37a706c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b30720ff8 CR3: 000000005f983000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __rb_reserve_next+0x4d9/0xd00 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3622
 rb_reserve_next_event kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3757 [inline]
 ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xafa/0xf10 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3816
 __trace_buffer_lock_reserve kernel/trace/trace.c:956 [inline]
 trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1ce/0x6f0 kernel/trace/trace.c:2843
 trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x2a8/0x3d0 kernel/trace/trace_events.c:647
 do_trace_event_raw_event_bpf_trace_printk kernel/trace/bpf_trace.h:11 [inline]
 trace_event_raw_event_bpf_trace_printk+0x112/0x230 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.h:11
 trace_bpf_trace_printk+0x199/0x220 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.h:11
 ____bpf_trace_printk kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:391 [inline]
 bpf_trace_printk+0x13e/0x1c0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:374
 bpf_prog_684afd27cbd518f8+0x3c/0x64
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1012 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:607 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:614 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp+0x1ed/0x430 net/bpf/test_run.c:847
 bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp+0x45a/0x680 net/bpf/test_run.c:889
 bpf_prog_test_run+0x31c/0x390 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3695
 __sys_bpf+0x62b/0x780 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5050
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5136 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5134 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bpf+0x78/0x90 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5134
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f4a36b9e0d9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f4a37a70028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4a36e25fa0 RCX: 00007f4a36b9e0d9
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00002000000004c0 RDI: 000000000000000a
RBP: 00007f4a36c35024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f4a36e26038 R14: 00007f4a36e25fa0 R15: 00007ffdaade8ec8
 </TASK>

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/18 01:24 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/08/11 18:54 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 71790083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/08/08 05:38 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/08/08 05:37 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/07/27 19:40 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/07/27 19:40 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/07/27 19:40 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/07/27 19:40 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/07/27 19:36 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/07/27 19:36 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
2026/07/27 19:36 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in check_buffer
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.