WARNING in mmap_region

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/08 20:10
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+d3c6764857d7cac5048a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d13h, last: 2d23h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
af65a707 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in mmap_region 2026/08/08 21:54 2026/08/08 21:54 2026/08/08 22:24 5d63f80b
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[syzbot] [mm?] WARNING in mmap_region 0 (1) 2026/08/08 20:10
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.14 WARNING in mmap_region -1 1 2254d 2254d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/10/05 15:32

Sample crash report:
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vma_is_anonymous(vma)
WARNING: mm/internal.h:241 at mmap_file mm/internal.h:241 [inline], CPU#0: syz.0.17/5892
WARNING: mm/internal.h:241 at __mmap_new_file_vma mm/vma.c:2586 [inline], CPU#0: syz.0.17/5892
WARNING: mm/internal.h:241 at __mmap_new_vma mm/vma.c:2685 [inline], CPU#0: syz.0.17/5892
WARNING: mm/internal.h:241 at __mmap_region mm/vma.c:2905 [inline], CPU#0: syz.0.17/5892
WARNING: mm/internal.h:241 at mmap_region+0x1f8d/0x2460 mm/vma.c:2990, CPU#0: syz.0.17/5892
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5892 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:mmap_file mm/internal.h:241 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__mmap_new_file_vma mm/vma.c:2586 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__mmap_new_vma mm/vma.c:2685 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__mmap_region mm/vma.c:2905 [inline]
RIP: 0010:mmap_region+0x1f8d/0x2460 mm/vma.c:2990
Code: d6 a0 ff e9 69 f1 ff ff e8 10 d6 a0 ff 90 0f 0b 90 e9 5f e2 ff ff e8 02 d6 a0 ff 90 0f 0b 90 e9 02 fe ff ff e8 f4 d5 a0 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 c7 44 24 08 ea ff ff ff 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc900037bf560 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8226adfc RBX: fffff520006f7ec0 RCX: ffff88801d711f40
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc900037bfb70 R08: ffff8880122eb803 R09: 1ffff1100245d700
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100245d701 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff920006f7efd R14: 1ffff11006c41e09 R15: ffff88803620f048
FS:  0000555564503500(0000) GS:ffff888124f18000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa7f9a70000 CR3: 0000000071f6c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 do_mmap+0xe0a/0x1300 mm/mmap.c:573
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x272/0x4e0 mm/util.c:581
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x4dc/0x760 mm/mmap.c:619
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x510 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa7f9b9e0d9
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:00007fffcfdacab8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa7f9e25fa0 RCX: 00007fa7f9b9e0d9
RDX: 0000000002000000 RSI: 0000000000003000 RDI: 0000200000ffa000
RBP: 00007fa7f9c35024 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000100000000
R10: 0000000000000013 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa7f9e25fac R14: 00007fa7f9e25fa0 R15: 00007fa7f9e25fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (16):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/07 09:50 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/07 08:46 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/07 08:02 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/07 07:20 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/07 06:29 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/07 02:23 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/07 02:23 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 23:31 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 23:30 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 21:55 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 21:55 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 21:17 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 21:17 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 19:42 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 19:40 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
2026/08/06 19:39 linux-next 1701fda2f58e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in mmap_region
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.