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general protection fault in do_rmdir

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2023/12/08 13:26
Bug presence: origin:downstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+119227d586c7650599dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 912d, last: 14d
Bug presence (3)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2023/12/04 android13-5.15-lts (ToT) 0e7c7966689d C [report] general protection fault in do_rmdir
2023/12/04 lts (merge base) 80529b4968a8 C Didn't crash
2023/12/04 upstream (ToT) 33cc938e65a9 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-12 general protection fault in do_rmdir origin:downstream 2 C 7 48d 322d 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2025/07/16 06:08
android-5-10 general protection fault in do_rmdir 2 C 24 27d 908d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/12/08 13:26
android-6-1 general protection fault in do_rmdir origin:downstream 2 C done 6 2d21h 908d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/12/08 13:26
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/22 13:46 55m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2026/04/04 05:26 15m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2026/03/17 23:12 8m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2026/03/17 23:12 5m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2026/02/26 09:00 5m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2026/02/11 05:24 6m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2026/01/24 03:52 25m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2026/01/06 20:25 7m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2026/01/06 20:25 8m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/12/17 21:47 5m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2024/01/04 05:56 36m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000008: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]
CPU: 0 PID: 373 Comm: syz.2.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:do_rmdir+0x1fa/0x6b0 fs/namei.c:4210
Code: ff ff 49 89 c6 48 3d 01 f0 ff ff 72 0d e8 ee ee b5 ff 45 89 f7 e9 94 00 00 00 4c 89 74 24 20 4d 8d 7e 30 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 b7 24 f5 ff 49 83 3f 00 4c 8b 34
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002347e20 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 1ffff92000468fcc RCX: ffff888110742780
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff888110742780
RBP: ffffc90002347ee8 R08: ffff88810d2176bf R09: 1ffff11021a42ed7
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1021a42ed8 R12: 00000000ffffff9c
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: 0000000000000040
FS:  00007f7238ce86c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f7238cc6ff8 CR3: 0000000127ba9000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __do_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:4237 [inline]
 __se_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:4235 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rmdir+0x49/0x50 fs/namei.c:4235
 x64_sys_call+0x25f/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:85
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f7238e85e59
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:00007f7238ce8028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000054
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f72390fefa0 RCX: 00007f7238e85e59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000200000000040
RBP: 00007f7238f1bd6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f72390ff038 R14: 00007f72390fefa0 R15: 00007ffdab548f88
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 48095bdd0e3ece16 ]---
RIP: 0010:do_rmdir+0x1fa/0x6b0 fs/namei.c:4210
Code: ff ff 49 89 c6 48 3d 01 f0 ff ff 72 0d e8 ee ee b5 ff 45 89 f7 e9 94 00 00 00 4c 89 74 24 20 4d 8d 7e 30 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 b7 24 f5 ff 49 83 3f 00 4c 8b 34
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002347e20 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 1ffff92000468fcc RCX: ffff888110742780
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff888110742780
RBP: ffffc90002347ee8 R08: ffff88810d2176bf R09: 1ffff11021a42ed7
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1021a42ed8 R12: 00000000ffffff9c
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: 0000000000000040
FS:  00007f7238ce86c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f7238ed3540 CR3: 0000000127ba9000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
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Code disassembly (best guess), 2 bytes skipped:
   0:	49 89 c6             	mov    %rax,%r14
   3:	48 3d 01 f0 ff ff    	cmp    $0xfffffffffffff001,%rax
   9:	72 0d                	jb     0x18
   b:	e8 ee ee b5 ff       	call   0xffb5eefe
  10:	45 89 f7             	mov    %r14d,%r15d
  13:	e9 94 00 00 00       	jmp    0xac
  18:	4c 89 74 24 20       	mov    %r14,0x20(%rsp)
  1d:	4d 8d 7e 30          	lea    0x30(%r14),%r15
  21:	4c 89 f8             	mov    %r15,%rax
  24:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 28:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2d:	74 08                	je     0x37
  2f:	4c 89 ff             	mov    %r15,%rdi
  32:	e8 b7 24 f5 ff       	call   0xfff524ee
  37:	49 83 3f 00          	cmpq   $0x0,(%r15)
  3b:	4c                   	rex.WR
  3c:	8b                   	.byte 0x8b
  3d:	34                   	.byte 0x34

Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/20 02:29 android13-5.15-lts 05eea940894a 0909d65f .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in do_rmdir
2026/05/13 14:29 android13-5.15-lts 7f4b368e0410 fec2a7ee .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in do_rmdir
2025/08/02 23:22 android13-5.15-lts f32b52534f1d 7368264b .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in do_rmdir
2024/12/27 00:12 android13-5.15-lts b4bd207b0380 d3ccff63 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in do_rmdir
2024/04/04 06:32 android13-5.15-lts 993bed180178 51c4dcff .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in do_rmdir
2024/01/30 22:30 android13-5.15-lts 1c3a1f32bcbd 7f400fcb .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in do_rmdir
2023/12/04 12:59 android13-5.15-lts 0e7c7966689d f819d6f7 .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in do_rmdir
2025/06/28 13:46 android13-5.15-lts 0d918fa8e88d fc9d8ee5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 general protection fault in do_rmdir
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.