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WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (4)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/04/04 19:44
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+51216c95e1873f4c4098@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d02h, last: 22h03m
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/04/04 linux-5.15.y (ToT) 91d48252ad4b C [report] WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
2026/04/04 upstream (ToT) 3aae9383f42f C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (12)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (3) -1 2 247d 247d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/09 02:42
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create overlayfs -1 1 1201d 1197d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/20 02:11
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (3) ext4 -1 1 696d 692d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/17 18:22
linux-6.1 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (3) -1 4 211d 331d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/15 10:43
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (4) overlayfs -1 1 496d 492d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/24 06:35
linux-6.1 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (2) -1 2 472d 487d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/29 20:32
linux-5.15 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create -1 3 496d 649d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/04 23:52
linux-6.1 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (4) -1 3 63d 76d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/01/19 15:15
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (5) overlayfs -1 4 144d 207d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/20 12:32
linux-5.15 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (2) -1 1 367d 367d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/12 19:53
linux-6.1 WARNING in ovl_workdir_create -1 1 688d 688d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/25 13:40
upstream WARNING in ovl_workdir_create (2) overlayfs -1 1 877d 873d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/18 01:53
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/05 01:56 1m fix candidate upstream error job log

Sample crash report:
DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON((rwsem_owner(sem) != current) && !rwsem_test_oflags(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE)): count = 0x0, magic = 0xffff888058e82810, owner = 0x0, curr 0xffff88805c210000, list empty
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4371 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1350 __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1349 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4371 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1350 up_write+0x3a1/0x420 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1604
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 4371 Comm: syz.1.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:__up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1349 [inline]
RIP: 0010:up_write+0x3a1/0x420 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1604
Code: 44 d0 48 c7 c7 00 1b 2b 8a 48 c7 c6 c0 1d 2b 8a 48 8b 14 24 4c 89 f1 4d 89 e0 4c 8b 4c 24 08 41 52 e8 53 1f 55 08 48 83 c4 08 <0f> 0b e9 6b fd ff ff 48 c7 c1 08 17 8a 8d 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000361f790 EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: b4775d46e634aa00 RBX: ffff888058e82810 RCX: ffff88805c210000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff8880b9033d7f R09: 1ffff110172067af
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10172067b0 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888058e82868 R14: ffff888058e82810 R15: 1ffff1100b1d0503
FS:  00007f0d2ff166c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2325f2ba08 CR3: 0000000073bf9000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:792 [inline]
 ovl_workdir_create+0x57f/0x630 fs/overlayfs/super.c:839
 ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:1376 [inline]
 ovl_get_workdir+0x37c/0x1230 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1526
 ovl_fill_super+0x1824/0x2a30 fs/overlayfs/super.c:2082
 mount_nodev+0x52/0xe0 fs/super.c:1446
 legacy_get_tree+0xe6/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:611
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3034
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3377 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3585 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e3/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3562
 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: 0033:0x7f0d308d5819
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:00007f0d2ff16028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0d30b4f090 RCX: 00007f0d308d5819
RDX: 0000200000000440 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f0d3096bc91 R08: 0000200000000080 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0d30b4f128 R14: 00007f0d30b4f090 R15: 00007fff072af018
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/05 00:37 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
2026/04/04 23:29 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
2026/04/04 22:18 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
2026/04/04 20:46 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
2026/04/04 19:44 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in ovl_workdir_create
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.