WARNING in free_conf

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/21 11:07
Subsystems: raid
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+6a132745caefcf42cb0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d10h, last: 3d06h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
dea7131d assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in free_conf 2026/09/19 00:00 2026/09/19 00:00 2026/09/19 00:41 853b104b
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Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 WARNING in free_conf -1 syz, C 1 1d05h 1d05h 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/20 15:23

Sample crash report:
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Object 0xffff88808b840000 @offset=0
Object 0xffff88808b8404d8 @offset=1240
Object 0xffff88808b8409b0 @offset=2480
Object 0xffff88808b840e88 @offset=3720
Slab 0xffffea00022e1000 objects=13 used=4 fp=0xffff88808b841360 flags=0xfff00000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
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WARNING: mm/slub.c:1268 at __slab_err+0x15/0x20 mm/slub.c:1268, CPU#0: syz.5.636/7760
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7760 Comm: syz.5.636 Tainted: G    B               syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/26/2026
RIP: 0010:__slab_err+0x15/0x20 mm/slub.c:1268
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 e8 2b 00 00 00 bf 05 00 00 00 be 01 00 00 00 e8 7c 0f 5f 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 5e 04 e8 ff cc 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000527f840 EFLAGS: 00010083
RAX: ffffffff81874cba RBX: ffff88801f7fb280 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000ddd2000 RSI: 000000000000eef7 RDI: 000000000000eef8
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff939990a7 R09: 1ffffffff2733214
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2733215 R12: ffffea00022e8c10
R13: ffffea00022e1000 R14: ffffc9000527f858 R15: ffff88805445e3c0
FS:  00007f088e6396c0(0000) GS:ffff888124cce000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffca4261db0 CR3: 000000003121e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 free_partial mm/slub.c:8122 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x1a5/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:8165
 kmem_cache_destroy+0x9d/0x180 mm/slab_common.c:576
 shrink_stripes drivers/md/raid5.c:2719 [inline]
 free_conf+0x1fc/0x5d0 drivers/md/raid5.c:7553
 setup_conf+0x1720/0x2ad0 drivers/md/raid5.c:7885
 raid5_takeover_raid1 drivers/md/raid5.c:8934 [inline]
 raid5_takeover+0x641/0x8d0 drivers/md/raid5.c:9045
 level_store+0x83b/0x1d10 drivers/md/md.c:4134
 md_attr_store+0x3b7/0x640 drivers/md/md.c:6158
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a4/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x612/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 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: 0033:0x7f088d79e159
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:00007f088e639028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f088da25fa0 RCX: 00007f088d79e159
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: 0000200000000300 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f088d83506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f088da26038 R14: 00007f088da25fa0 R15: 00007ffc30f7c868
 </TASK>

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/18 14:57 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 13:02 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 13:00 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 12:39 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/18 11:39 upstream 5dd1818b15d9 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:47 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:28 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:16 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:14 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 11:03 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in free_conf
2026/09/17 13:29 upstream 238650ef6c7c 4a607247 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in free_conf
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.