Re: [syzbot] [io-uring?] memory leak in iovec_from_user (4)

Jens Axboe
2026-01-14T16:09:50Z

On 1/14/26 1:35 AM, syzbot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> syzbot found the following issue on:
>
> HEAD commit: b54345928fa1 Merge tag 'gfs2-for-6.19-rc6' of git://git.ke..
> git tree: upstream
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15f82052580000
> kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=87bc41cae23d2144
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=df0b387708573ad096ce
> compiler: gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
> syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=147ef99a580000
> C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=109655fa580000
>
> Downloadable assets:
> disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/23b084ff7602/disk-b5434592.raw.xz
> vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/3ecd3b0e8e34/vmlinux-b5434592.xz
> kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/b42ab3574030/bzImage-b5434592.xz

I still think these are false positives, and forcing another kmemleak scan
would make them go away. Which the syzbot reproducers should arguably just
do. As mentioned in the email from this week, I ran into various others
of these, all of them invalid. A rescan sorts it out.

#syz invalid

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Jens Axboe