general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/30 12:39
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+cc460646984184ad435a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 21d, last: 20h52m
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1 moderation 2026/08/05 14:28 Discussion f83d9281-0bbe-47a6-ac52-5b5911268adc
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f83d9281 patching ❓ general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 2026/08/05 14:15 2026/08/05 14:15 2026/08/05 14:28 f775a85c
5c8b90bb patching 💥 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 2026/07/30 13:17 2026/07/30 13:17 2026/07/30 13:25 2377cd3d
6859b446 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 2026/07/28 01:49 2026/07/28 01:49 2026/07/28 02:33 4cb2b096
f2830863 assessment-security 💥 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 2026/07/26 01:46 2026/07/26 01:46 2026/07/26 01:46 492bab15
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[syzbot] Monthly fs report (Aug 2026) 0 (1) 2026/08/11 04:32
[syzbot] [fs?] general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal (2) 0 (2) 2026/08/04 17:15
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal fs 2 1 372d 368d 0/29 closed as dup on 2025/08/13 21:14

Sample crash report:
i2c i2c-1: failure reading functionality
i2c i2c-1: failure reading functionality
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000000028
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000140-0x0000000000000147]
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000005
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0
[dfff800000000028] address between user and kernel address ranges
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5728 Comm: syz.4.648 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/02/2026
pstate: 23400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : kasan_byte_accessible+0x10/0x20 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
lr : __kasan_check_byte+0x20/0x54 mm/kasan/common.c:573
sp : ffff800096777240
x29: ffff800096777240 x28: ffff800088b0a000 x27: ffff0000d0da3a80
x26: 2eb980008045b830 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000001
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000140 x21: 0000000000000140
x20: 0000000000000002 x19: ffff80008045b830 x18: 1fffe00035bc9e28
x17: 0000000000000003 x16: ffff800088b07000 x15: ffff800088bbd0a0
x14: 00000000ffff8000 x13: 0000000000000001 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : dfff800000000000
x8 : 0000000000000028 x7 : ffff8000818fc2c8 x6 : ffff800080d4edec
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff80008045b830 x0 : 0000000000000140
Call trace:
 kasan_mem_to_shadow include/linux/kasan.h:65 [inline] (P)
 kasan_byte_accessible+0x10/0x20 mm/kasan/generic.c:210 (P)
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0xa4/0x364 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842
 down_write_nested+0x58/0xcc kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1757
 inode_lock_nested include/linux/fs.h:1069 [inline]
 __simple_recursive_removal+0x7c/0x430 fs/libfs.c:606
 simple_recursive_removal+0x2c/0x3c fs/libfs.c:646
 debugfs_remove+0x60/0x88 fs/debugfs/inode.c:781
 i2c_device_probe+0x884/0x9d4 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:610
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x29c/0x800 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e0/0x350 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x6c/0x19c drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x198/0x2f8 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x144/0x1dc drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x248/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0x90/0xc8 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x58/0x120 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x6cc/0x9e0 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 device_register+0x28/0x38 drivers/base/core.c:3854
 i2c_new_client_device+0x5ac/0xadc drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1019
 new_device_store+0x210/0x3d4 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1307
 dev_attr_store+0x6c/0x90 drivers/base/core.c:2505
 sysfs_kf_write+0xe0/0x108 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x260/0x3b8 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x51c/0xa0c fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12c/0x228 fs/read_write.c:739
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:750 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:747 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_write+0x84/0x98 fs/read_write.c:747
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x244 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0xec/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:121
 do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x5c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 el0_svc+0x64/0x260 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:736
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x48/0x148 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:755
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:594
Code: d503245f d343fc08 d2d00009 f2fbffe9 (38696908) 
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	d503245f 	bti	c
   4:	d343fc08 	lsr	x8, x0, #3
   8:	d2d00009 	mov	x9, #0x800000000000        	// #140737488355328
   c:	f2fbffe9 	movk	x9, #0xdfff, lsl #48
* 10:	38696908 	ldrb	w8, [x8, x9] <-- trapping instruction

Crashes (19):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/04 17:15 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7235a3e71949 d4abbeac .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/30 12:38 upstream 11028ab62899 abc81b93 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/08/12 11:56 upstream f5bbbfec59b4 f8d35649 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/30 18:42 upstream 11028ab62899 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/08/12 07:38 upstream f5bbbfec59b4 f8d35649 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/08/06 20:56 upstream fcaeecb8b0cd cc56899a .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/08/03 02:50 upstream bd1dde877520 e611ffe1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/30 10:22 upstream 11028ab62899 abc81b93 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/28 19:36 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/28 17:46 upstream 62cc90241548 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/26 15:10 upstream 3dab139d4795 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/26 14:13 upstream 3dab139d4795 492bab15 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/08/15 01:34 upstream a5161661ae99 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/08/08 09:06 upstream 3f008280327b 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/08/02 16:40 upstream 2d2338c93da7 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/27 04:28 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/27 04:28 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/27 04:26 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
2026/07/24 23:52 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in __simple_recursive_removal
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.