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linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/08/22 10:09
Subsystems: fs mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+0630e71306742d4b2aea@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d03h, last: 4h33m
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[syzbot] [fs?] [mm?] linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback 0 (1) 2025/08/22 10:09

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: ./include/linux/backing-dev.h:243 at inode_to_wb include/linux/backing-dev.h:239 [inline], CPU#0: kworker/u8:0/12
WARNING: ./include/linux/backing-dev.h:243 at __folio_start_writeback+0x9d5/0xb70 mm/page-writeback.c:3027, CPU#0: kworker/u8:0/12
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-8:0)
RIP: 0010:inode_to_wb include/linux/backing-dev.h:239 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__folio_start_writeback+0x9d5/0xb70 mm/page-writeback.c:3027
Code: 28 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 de a2 29 00 49 8b 07 25 ff 3f 00 00 e9 1b fa ff ff e8 dc f7 c5 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 d6 fb ff ff e8 ce f7 c5 ff 48 c7 c7 e0 fe 5f 8e 4c 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000116ea0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff81fb0b54 RBX: ffffea000508c880 RCX: ffff88801d29da00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90000117010 R08: ffffc90000116f97 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90000116f80 R11: fffff52000022df3 R12: ffffea000508c888
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888148c8e480 R15: ffff888148c8e260
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881257bf000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f832c28f4c0 CR3: 000000000e338000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __block_write_full_folio+0x75f/0xe10 fs/buffer.c:1928
 blkdev_writepages+0xd1/0x170 block/fops.c:484
 do_writepages+0x32b/0x550 mm/page-writeback.c:2604
 __writeback_single_inode+0x145/0xff0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1680
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x6c7/0x1010 fs/fs-writeback.c:1976
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x111/0x240 fs/fs-writeback.c:2047
 wb_writeback+0x44f/0xaf0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2158
 wb_check_old_data_flush fs/fs-writeback.c:2262 [inline]
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2315 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0xaef/0xef0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2343
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x47c/0x820 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/27 05:38 linux-next 3c642997252e e12e5ba4 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback
2025/08/27 05:05 linux-next 3c642997252e e12e5ba4 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback
2025/08/26 18:31 linux-next d0630b758e59 e12e5ba4 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback
2025/08/26 10:14 linux-next d0630b758e59 bf27483f .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback
2025/08/26 09:43 linux-next d0630b758e59 bf27483f .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback
2025/08/22 07:30 linux-next 0f4c93f7eb86 bf27483f .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback
2025/08/22 06:57 linux-next 0f4c93f7eb86 bf27483f .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: WARNING in __folio_start_writeback
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.