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From: syzbot <syzbot+cae7809e9dc1459e4e63@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
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	chao@kernel.org,  hao.li@linux.dev, harry.yoo@oracle.com,
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	vbabka@suse.cz, wangqing7171@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [mm?] [f2fs?] [exfat?] memory leak in __kfree_rcu_sheaf
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:29:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69afba32.a00a0220.d013.0002.GAE@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa-1-Y3v3D1hzPvL@hyeyoo>

Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
memory leak in copy_process

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888101799d80 (size 184):
  comm "kthreadd", pid 2, jiffies 4294948049
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    0a 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 78 fd 01 81 88 ff ff  .!......Xx......
  backtrace (crc e9f8bd9):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:45 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4552 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4874 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x372/0x480 mm/slub.c:4881
    alloc_pid+0xe4/0x850 kernel/pid.c:189
    copy_process+0x1a97/0x28c0 kernel/fork.c:2239
    kernel_clone+0xac/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:2654
    kernel_thread+0x80/0xb0 kernel/fork.c:2715
    create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:459 [inline]
    kthreadd+0x186/0x250 kernel/kthread.c:817
    ret_from_fork+0x23c/0x4b0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810b0d7b40 (size 184):
  comm "kthreadd", pid 2, jiffies 4294948049
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc ddb1bc35):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:45 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4552 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4874 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x372/0x480 mm/slub.c:4881
    prepare_creds+0x22/0x600 kernel/cred.c:185
    copy_creds+0x44/0x290 kernel/cred.c:286
    copy_process+0x7a7/0x28c0 kernel/fork.c:2084
    kernel_clone+0xac/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:2654
    kernel_thread+0x80/0xb0 kernel/fork.c:2715
    create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:459 [inline]
    kthreadd+0x186/0x250 kernel/kthread.c:817
    ret_from_fork+0x23c/0x4b0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810b91e4a0 (size 32):
  comm "kthreadd", pid 2, jiffies 4294948049
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    f8 6e 0a 00 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .n..............
  backtrace (crc 13ba6aa5):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:45 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4552 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4874 [inline]
    __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5267 [inline]
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x3bd/0x560 mm/slub.c:5280
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
    lsm_blob_alloc+0x4d/0x80 security/security.c:192
    lsm_cred_alloc security/security.c:209 [inline]
    security_prepare_creds+0x2d/0x290 security/security.c:2763
    prepare_creds+0x395/0x600 kernel/cred.c:215
    copy_creds+0x44/0x290 kernel/cred.c:286
    copy_process+0x7a7/0x28c0 kernel/fork.c:2084
    kernel_clone+0xac/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:2654
    kernel_thread+0x80/0xb0 kernel/fork.c:2715
    create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:459 [inline]
    kthreadd+0x186/0x250 kernel/kthread.c:817
    ret_from_fork+0x23c/0x4b0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

connection error: failed to recv *flatrpc.ExecutorMessageRawT: EOF


Tested on:

commit:         1f318b96 Linux 7.0-rc3
git tree:       upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1224694a580000
kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=2c6ad6fefffa76b1
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=cae7809e9dc1459e4e63
compiler:       gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44
patch:          https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=110faf5a580000


  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-10  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-09 18:26 [syzbot] [mm?] [f2fs?] [exfat?] memory leak in __kfree_rcu_sheaf syzbot
2026-03-02  3:41 ` Qing Wang
2026-03-02  3:57   ` syzbot
2026-03-02  8:39   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-04  1:30     ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-04 13:39       ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-06 19:35         ` Catalin Marinas
2026-03-08 11:02           ` Catalin Marinas
2026-03-08 12:31             ` syzbot
2026-03-08 11:04           ` Catalin Marinas
2026-03-08 12:42             ` syzbot
2026-03-09 10:46           ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-09 11:11             ` syzbot
2026-03-09 12:17           ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-09 20:31             ` Catalin Marinas
2026-03-11  3:04               ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-11  3:20                 ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-10  3:39           ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-10  3:54             ` syzbot
2026-03-10  6:11               ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-10  6:29                 ` syzbot [this message]
2026-03-10  8:10                   ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-10  9:40                     ` syzbot
2026-03-18  2:34                     ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-18  3:08                       ` syzbot
2026-03-18  4:10                     ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-18  5:02                       ` syzbot
2026-03-11  9:57 ` Qing Wang
2026-03-11 10:17   ` syzbot
2026-03-11 10:48 ` Qing Wang
2026-03-11 11:03   ` syzbot
2026-03-11 11:23   ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-20  0:06 ` Harry Yoo
2026-03-20 10:34   ` syzbot
2026-03-20 11:20 ` Harry Yoo

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