kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/04 18:29
Reported-by: syzbot+f2ebbe9cbd4016909a50@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d04h, last: 5d21h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ... block fs 2 11 184d 478d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/18 06:02
linux-6.1 kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ... 2 3 5d20h 6d00h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/04 22:35
linux-6.6 kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ... 2 1 6d00h 6d00h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/08/04 22:32

Sample crash report:
Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
CPU: 0 PID: 4186 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G    B             syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 panic+0x2f8/0x850 kernel/panic.c:309
 check_panic_on_warn+0x80/0xa0 kernel/panic.c:229
 end_report+0x6d/0xf0 mm/kasan/report.c:121
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:441 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x102/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x235/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:111 [inline]
 __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:193 [inline]
 __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
 refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
 kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
 svc_get include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:108 [inline]
 nfsd_shutdown_threads+0x89/0x1a0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:641
 nfsd_umount+0x3e/0xc0 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:1411
 deactivate_locked_super+0x93/0xf0 fs/super.c:335
 cleanup_mnt+0x426/0x4d0 fs/namespace.c:1148
 task_work_run+0x125/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10f/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f9ac9056257
Code: a2 c7 05 9c 44 25 00 00 00 00 00 eb 96 e8 e1 12 00 00 90 31 f6 e9 09 00 00 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 b8 a6 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 c7 c2 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8
RSP: 002b:00007fffb9ad0418 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f9ac90eb45c RCX: 00007f9ac9056257
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 00007fffb9ad04d0
RBP: 00007fffb9ad04d0 R08: 00007fffb9ad14d0 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fffb9ad1560
R13: 00007f9ac90eb45c R14: 0000000000012421 R15: 00007fffb9ad15a0
 </TASK>
Kernel Offset: disabled
Rebooting in 86400 seconds..

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/05 02:20 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/05 01:33 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/05 01:04 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/05 01:04 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/04 22:04 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/04 20:26 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/04 20:22 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/04 20:05 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/04 18:39 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
2026/08/04 18:29 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan kernel panic: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.