linux-kernel - [syzbot] [fuse?] WARNING: refcount bug in process_one

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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:59:31 -0700
From: syzbot <syzbot+a638ae70fa7b6a1353b4@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
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Subject: [syzbot] [fuse?] WARNING: refcount bug in process_one_work

Hello,

syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit:    ced1b9e0392d Merge tag 'ata-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel...
git tree:       upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=12219034580000
kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=52c12ce9080f644c
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a638ae70fa7b6a1353b4
compiler:       gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=15e784a2580000
C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=154d94a2580000

Downloadable assets:
disk image (non-bootable): https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/d900f083ada3/non_bootable_disk-ced1b9e0.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/c709b0d9538c/vmlinux-ced1b9e0.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/129af0799fa3/bzImage-ced1b9e0.xz

IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+a638ae70fa7b6a1353b4@...kaller.appspotmail.com

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refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 34 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x14a/0x210 lib/refcount.c:28
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 34 Comm: kworker/3:0 Not tainted 6.16.0-syzkaller-00857-gced1b9e0392d #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: md_misc mddev_delayed_delete
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x14a/0x210 lib/refcount.c:28
Code: ff 89 de e8 d8 7f da fc 84 db 0f 85 66 ff ff ff e8 eb 84 da fc c6 05 19 50 b0 0b 01 90 48 c7 c7 e0 6a 15 8c e8 d7 8b 99 fc 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 e9 43 ff ff ff e8 c8 84 da fc 0f b6 1d f4 4f b0 0b 31
RSP: 0018:ffffc900006dfc10 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff817b01b8
RDX: ffff88801eaac880 RSI: ffffffff817b01c5 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff88802a5f4130 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88802a5f4134
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88802a5f4130 R15: ffffc900006dfd10
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880d69f9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f43c9dddd58 CR3: 0000000032cdc000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:400 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x230/0x5a0 lib/kobject.c:737
 process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3321 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3402
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x5d4/0x6f0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>


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