general protection fault in configfs_symlink

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/07/29 00:20
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+ee5128869a80ee2589f0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d18h, last: 1h15m
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
2d13717a assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ general protection fault in configfs_symlink 2026/07/26 01:43 2026/07/26 01:43 2026/07/26 01:49 492bab15

			
		
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 general protection fault in configfs_symlink 2 1 4d09h 4d09h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/26 05:03

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000016: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000b0-0x00000000000000b7]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6510 Comm: syz.2.98 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:create_link fs/configfs/symlink.c:81 [inline]
RIP: 0010:configfs_symlink+0x5fc/0x1030 fs/configfs/symlink.c:199
Code: 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 1e e9 c2 ff 41 bc b0 00 00 00 4c 03 23 4c 89 e0 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <80> 3c 08 00 74 08 4c 89 e7 e8 f6 e8 c2 ff 4d 8b 2c 24 4c 89 ef e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000db57c80 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000016 RBX: ffff88803ffd2f48 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffffffff8d885b19 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffc9000db57d88 R08: ffffffff8faf9837 R09: 1ffffffff1f5f306
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f5f307 R12: 00000000000000b0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8c224608 R15: 1ffff92001b6afa0
FS:  00007fe3724146c0(0000) GS:ffff888125d41000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe371bced58 CR3: 0000000031f22000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 vfs_symlink+0x18b/0x330 fs/namei.c:5660
 filename_symlinkat+0x1cd/0x420 fs/namei.c:5685
 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:5705 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlinkat+0x4e/0x2b0 fs/namei.c:5700
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe3741fdf99
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:00007fe372414028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000010a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe374486180 RCX: 00007fe3741fdf99
RDX: 0000200000000e00 RSI: ffffffffffffff9c RDI: 0000200000000d00
RBP: 00007fe374294ec4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe374486218 R14: 00007fe374486180 R15: 00007ffc38abe7b8
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:create_link fs/configfs/symlink.c:81 [inline]
RIP: 0010:configfs_symlink+0x5fc/0x1030 fs/configfs/symlink.c:199
Code: 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 1e e9 c2 ff 41 bc b0 00 00 00 4c 03 23 4c 89 e0 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <80> 3c 08 00 74 08 4c 89 e7 e8 f6 e8 c2 ff 4d 8b 2c 24 4c 89 ef e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000db57c80 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000016 RBX: ffff88803ffd2f48 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffffffff8d885b19 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffc9000db57d88 R08: ffffffff8faf9837 R09: 1ffffffff1f5f306
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f5f307 R12: 00000000000000b0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8c224608 R15: 1ffff92001b6afa0
FS:  00007fe3724146c0(0000) GS:ffff888125d41000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe371bced58 CR3: 0000000031f22000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	03 42 80             	add    -0x80(%rdx),%eax
   3:	3c 20                	cmp    $0x20,%al
   5:	00 74 08 48          	add    %dh,0x48(%rax,%rcx,1)
   9:	89 df                	mov    %ebx,%edi
   b:	e8 1e e9 c2 ff       	call   0xffc2e92e
  10:	41 bc b0 00 00 00    	mov    $0xb0,%r12d
  16:	4c 03 23             	add    (%rbx),%r12
  19:	4c 89 e0             	mov    %r12,%rax
  1c:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
  20:	48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rcx
  27:	fc ff df
* 2a:	80 3c 08 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%rcx,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	74 08                	je     0x38
  30:	4c 89 e7             	mov    %r12,%rdi
  33:	e8 f6 e8 c2 ff       	call   0xffc2e92e
  38:	4d 8b 2c 24          	mov    (%r12),%r13
  3c:	4c 89 ef             	mov    %r13,%rdi
  3f:	e8                   	.byte 0xe8

Crashes (17):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/30 03:29 upstream fc46aed51f62 6ef5c1e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/29 22:42 upstream fc02acf6ac0c 6ef5c1e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/29 22:13 upstream fc02acf6ac0c 6ef5c1e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/29 15:19 upstream fc02acf6ac0c cb1587ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/29 09:49 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 19622d9d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/28 06:15 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/28 02:49 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/28 02:05 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/27 23:44 upstream f5098b6bae76 4cb2b096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/26 08:20 upstream 3dab139d4795 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/25 02:15 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a 05b26a28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/24 19:43 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/30 13:27 upstream 11028ab62899 0a1bc234 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/28 20:19 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 5fe7c56f .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/28 01:11 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c 4cb2b096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/07/28 23:04 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c 19622d9d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in configfs_symlink
2026/07/26 23:49 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in configfs_symlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.