syzbot ci has tested the following series [v6] ovl: Enable support for casefold layers https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250822-tonyk-overlayfs-v6-0-8b6e9e604fa2@xxxxxxxxxx * [PATCH v6 1/9] fs: Create sb_encoding() helper * [PATCH v6 2/9] fs: Create sb_same_encoding() helper * [PATCH v6 3/9] ovl: Prepare for mounting case-insensitive enabled layers * [PATCH v6 4/9] ovl: Create ovl_casefold() to support casefolded strncmp() * [PATCH v6 5/9] ovl: Ensure that all layers have the same encoding * [PATCH v6 6/9] ovl: Set case-insensitive dentry operations for ovl sb * [PATCH v6 7/9] ovl: Add S_CASEFOLD as part of the inode flag to be copied * [PATCH v6 8/9] ovl: Check for casefold consistency when creating new dentries * [PATCH v6 9/9] ovl: Support mounting case-insensitive enabled layers and found the following issue: WARNING in ovl_dentry_weird Full report is available here: https://ci.syzbot.org/series/efd002b5-e585-4cf8-86e7-4f24ba2247c7 *** WARNING in ovl_dentry_weird tree: torvalds URL: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux base: 068a56e56fa81e42fc5f08dff34fab149bb60a09 arch: amd64 compiler: Debian clang version 20.1.7 (++20250616065708+6146a88f6049-1~exp1~20250616065826.132), Debian LLD 20.1.7 config: https://ci.syzbot.org/builds/039eb31b-2b45-4207-b63e-71a25ed89f00/config C repro: https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/726ae90b-83b6-49e2-a496-9bfe444dc24f/c_repro syz repro: https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/726ae90b-83b6-49e2-a496-9bfe444dc24f/syz_repro EXT4-fs (loop0): 1 orphan inode deleted EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 r/w without journal. Quota mode: none. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6001 at fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h:118 OVL_FS fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h:118 [inline] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6001 at fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h:118 ovl_dentry_weird+0x15a/0x1a0 fs/overlayfs/util.c:206 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6001 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:OVL_FS fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h:118 [inline] RIP: 0010:ovl_dentry_weird+0x15a/0x1a0 fs/overlayfs/util.c:206 Code: e8 6b f9 8f fe 83 e5 03 0f 95 c3 31 ff 89 ee e8 9c fd 8f fe 89 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 3d b9 4c 08 cc e8 47 f9 8f fe 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 08 ff ff ff 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 0b RSP: 0018:ffffc90002caf9c8 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff832fb1e9 RBX: ffff888109730000 RCX: ffff888023295640 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88802b624a48 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000030656c69 R09: 1ffff110048d0ce0 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10048d0ce1 R12: dffffc0000000000 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: ffff88802b624a48 R15: ffff888109730028 FS: 0000555581e17500(0000) GS:ffff8880b861b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000200000001000 CR3: 00000000242f4000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: <TASK> ovl_mount_dir_check fs/overlayfs/params.c:300 [inline] ovl_do_parse_layer+0x307/0xbb0 fs/overlayfs/params.c:422 ovl_parse_layer fs/overlayfs/params.c:448 [inline] ovl_parse_param+0xb62/0xee0 fs/overlayfs/params.c:633 vfs_parse_fs_param+0x1a9/0x420 fs/fs_context.c:146 vfs_parse_fs_string fs/fs_context.c:188 [inline] vfs_parse_monolithic_sep+0x24d/0x310 fs/fs_context.c:230 do_new_mount+0x273/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3804 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4136 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4347 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x317/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4324 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f0c2558ebe9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffd67150878 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0c257b5fa0 RCX: 00007f0c2558ebe9 RDX: 0000200000000b80 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 00007f0c25611e19 R08: 0000200000000180 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007f0c257b5fa0 R14: 00007f0c257b5fa0 R15: 0000000000000005 </TASK> *** If these findings have caused you to resend the series or submit a separate fix, please add the following tag to your commit message: Tested-by: syzbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- This report is generated by a bot. It may contain errors. syzbot ci engineers can be reached at syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.