general protection fault in configfs_symlink

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/14 08:59
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+fb804e639c963f8eea9c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 49d, last: 4d13h
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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
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[syzbot] [fs?] general protection fault in configfs_symlink 0 (1) 2026/08/14 08:59
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 general protection fault in configfs_symlink 2 1 47d 47d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/26 05:03
android-5-10 general protection fault in configfs_symlink 2 1 31d 31d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/08/11 15:49

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: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9737 Comm: syz.0.1122 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
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 99 c1 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 98 c1 ff 4d 8b 2c 24 4c 89 ef e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000514fc80 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000016 RBX: ffff88803d0f6448 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d8ca62f RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffc9000514fd88 R08: ffffffff8fb1e67f R09: 1ffffffff1f63ccf
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f63cd0 R12: 00000000000000b0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8c218348 R15: 1ffff92000a29fa0
FS:  00007fcb752b56c0(0000) GS:ffff888125bd1000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fae563b56c8 CR3: 00000000294a0000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 vfs_symlink+0x18b/0x330 fs/namei.c:5794
 filename_symlinkat+0x1cd/0x420 fs/namei.c:5819
 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:5839 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlinkat+0x4e/0x2b0 fs/namei.c:5834
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fcb7707e159
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:00007fcb752b5028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000010a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fcb77306090 RCX: 00007fcb7707e159
RDX: 0000200000000480 RSI: ffffffffffffff9c RDI: 0000200000000440
RBP: 00007fcb77115024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fcb77306128 R14: 00007fcb77306090 R15: 00007ffc05bdecf8
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
----------------
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 99 c1 ff       	call   0xffc1992e
  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 98 c1 ff       	call   0xffc1992e
  38:	4d 8b 2c 24          	mov    (%r12),%r13
  3c:	4c 89 ef             	mov    %r13,%rdi
  3f:	e8                   	.byte 0xe8

Crashes (91):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/07 07:53 upstream 2beb1b31a12b 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/07 05:13 upstream 1fc5a74b108f 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/07 04:10 upstream 2beb1b31a12b 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/06 22:34 upstream 1fc5a74b108f 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/06 14:26 upstream 1fc5a74b108f 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/05 22:13 upstream 4d7d9486c04d 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/05 10:46 upstream 654ae5d73c05 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/04 07:51 upstream 841e384b841a 801f0966 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/03 04:32 upstream 940de590b839 6a988719 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/09/01 09:54 upstream bf1079577a11 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/31 21:08 upstream cee9395acd80 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/26 04:12 upstream 73ae59e97596 6a91adb4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/26 00:47 upstream 73ae59e97596 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/24 14:15 upstream 0a0d1d55dad5 23caa175 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/23 12:49 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/23 01:31 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/20 14:57 upstream a4ff2be345d0 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/18 01:48 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/17 15:56 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 905244d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/17 14:19 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/17 09:34 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/17 07:46 upstream dcb68831eac7 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/17 00:54 upstream dcb68831eac7 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/16 21:39 upstream dcb68831eac7 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/16 11:39 upstream 3eb40771c00a 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/15 12:22 upstream 15ef2f78c49d 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/15 03:18 upstream 2f1baf1fc892 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/14 13:12 upstream 2f1baf1fc892 6f9b3e89 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/14 08:58 upstream 2f1baf1fc892 b13552fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/14 01:42 upstream 3aa1dcaa4f6f a9ede23c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/13 09:26 upstream 3d6d817622b0 359b2492 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/11 18:33 upstream f5bbbfec59b4 71790083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/11 14:05 upstream d58772d8520c 71790083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/10 23:44 upstream d58772d8520c 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/10 17:31 upstream db2ddb871435 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/09 23:55 upstream b643e495ae92 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/09 03:24 upstream 06cf61899d64 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/08 04:11 upstream 9a143525f62b e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/07 15:00 upstream f9a2394a2348 e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/07 13:04 upstream 364465ab19de e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/05 10:08 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-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
2026/07/25 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
2026/09/05 09:28 upstream 654ae5d73c05 4f7b22a0 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/28 19:32 upstream 1b78070aaef6 41d151d4 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/24 07:25 upstream 388b607d107c 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/17 11:04 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 905244d6 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/31 07:22 linux-next e30626823a40 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/24 23:57 linux-next 4b18edbd8e70 23caa175 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/19 12:49 linux-next 5453bc3279e9 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/12 19:36 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c 7ae4acc7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/07 19:42 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in configfs_symlink
2026/08/30 10:52 upstream 08dbfad3f504 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in configfs_symlink
2026/07/31 14:51 upstream 8ba098e6b6ff 7664cf44 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in configfs_symlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.