general protection fault in getname_kernel

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/07 04:10
Reported-by: syzbot+7ad36bea639f2d542633@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d10h, last: 1d10h
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in getname_kernel (2) btrfs 2 syz, C done 17 663d 668d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/22 15:11
linux-6.1 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in getname_kernel 8 syz, C 13 1d09h 3d19h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/04 20:01
upstream general protection fault in getname_kernel gfs2 2 syz, C 10 2853d 2861d 11/29 fixed on 2018/11/12 21:25
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in getname_kernel (2) btrfs 17 syz, C done 5 916d 964d 25/29 fixed on 2024/03/28 13:58

Sample crash report:
nvmet: adding nsid 1 to subsystem testnqn
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 0 PID: 10265 Comm: syz.5.1160 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:strlen+0x29/0x70 lib/string.c:425
Code: da f3 0f 1e fa 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fb 49 89 c7 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 30 84 c0 75 11 48 ff c3 49 8d 47 01 42 80 7c 3f 01 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900127ff9c0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000d6c4000 RSI: 00000000000013d4 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900127ffaf8 R08: ffffffff8e8c7aef R09: 1ffffffff1d18f5d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d18f5e R12: 1ffff920024fff48
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffffffffffffff
FS:  00007f5a57cf06c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c31a99d CR3: 00000000662c5000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __fortify_strlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:228 [inline]
 getname_kernel+0x28/0x2f0 fs/namei.c:226
 filp_open+0x88/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1383
 nvmet_file_ns_enable+0x74/0x330 drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-file.c:41
 nvmet_ns_enable+0xf4/0x8c0 drivers/nvme/target/core.c:578
 nvmet_ns_enable_store+0xd8/0x170 drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c:549
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x312/0x400 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f5a56d9e0d9
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:00007f5a57cf0028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5a57025fa0 RCX: 00007f5a56d9e0d9
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000200000000580 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f5a56e35024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5a57026038 R14: 00007f5a57025fa0 R15: 00007ffdf2fd3808
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:strlen+0x29/0x70 lib/string.c:425
Code: da f3 0f 1e fa 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fb 49 89 c7 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 30 84 c0 75 11 48 ff c3 49 8d 47 01 42 80 7c 3f 01 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900127ff9c0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000d6c4000 RSI: 00000000000013d4 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900127ffaf8 R08: ffffffff8e8c7aef R09: 1ffffffff1d18f5d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d18f5e R12: 1ffff920024fff48
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffffffffffffff
FS:  00007f5a57cf06c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007eff987eb7c0 CR3: 00000000662c5000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
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Code disassembly (best guess), 1 bytes skipped:
   0:	f3 0f 1e fa          	endbr64
   4:	41 57                	push   %r15
   6:	41 56                	push   %r14
   8:	41 54                	push   %r12
   a:	53                   	push   %rbx
   b:	48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff 	mov    $0xffffffffffffffff,%rax
  12:	49 be 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%r14
  19:	fc ff df
  1c:	48 89 fb             	mov    %rdi,%rbx
  1f:	49 89 c7             	mov    %rax,%r15
  22:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
  25:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 29:	42 0f b6 04 30       	movzbl (%rax,%r14,1),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  30:	75 11                	jne    0x43
  32:	48 ff c3             	inc    %rbx
  35:	49 8d 47 01          	lea    0x1(%r15),%rax
  39:	42 80 7c 3f 01 00    	cmpb   $0x0,0x1(%rdi,%r15,1)

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/07 04:10 linux-6.6.y 80dfb0405055 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in getname_kernel
2026/08/07 04:09 linux-6.6.y 80dfb0405055 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan general protection fault in getname_kernel
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.