From: syzbot <syzbot+df1db6e034b3953e19f5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
To: autofs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
raven@themaw.net, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: [syzbot] [autofs?] memory leak in autofs_new_ino
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:33:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a984fda.27a413cd.1e878c.000a.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 8d3ae59288f1 Linux 7.2
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1784b6c6580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=11ad91fcc8fa7933
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=df1db6e034b3953e19f5
compiler: gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=11dc9a25580000
C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=1670b949580000
Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/735a458674ac/disk-8d3ae592.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/fbf50adb0745/vmlinux-8d3ae592.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/6effa5f7f690/bzImage-8d3ae592.xz
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Reported-by: syzbot+df1db6e034b3953e19f5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8881146ebc00 (size 192):
comm "syz.0.20", pid 5969, jiffies 4294943196
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 55e8e63e):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4597 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4917 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x356/0x440 mm/slub.c:5485
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
autofs_new_ino+0x24/0x80 fs/autofs/inode.c:16
autofs_fill_super+0x66/0x1d0 fs/autofs/inode.c:321
vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1273 [inline]
get_tree_nodev+0x91/0xf0 fs/super.c:1292
autofs_get_tree+0xbc/0x120 fs/autofs/inode.c:378
vfs_get_tree+0x30/0x120 fs/super.c:1700
vfs_cmd_create+0x7d/0x120 fs/fsopen.c:231
vfs_fsconfig_locked fs/fsopen.c:295 [inline]
__do_sys_fsconfig+0x492/0x9e0 fs/fsopen.c:463
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf8/0x610 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
connection error: failed to recv *flatrpc.ExecutorMessageRawT: EOF
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next reply other threads:[~2026-09-02 16:33 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-03 5:57 ` Jeffin Philip
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