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general protection fault in __ext4_journal_get_write_access (5)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/07 01:27
Reported-by: syzbot+0aec858fdcb9a4d6113d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d17h, last: 7d17h
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 general protection fault in __ext4_journal_get_write_access (2) 2 1 402d 402d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/16 06:11
upstream general protection fault in __ext4_journal_get_write_access fuse ext4 2 C done done 7 1950d 1999d 22/29 fixed on 2022/11/15 22:34
linux-6.1 general protection fault in __ext4_journal_get_write_access 2 2 545d 548d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/24 15:34
android-6-1 general protection fault in __ext4_journal_get_write_access missing-backport origin:lts 2 C 93 19d 159d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/06 16:02
linux-6.1 general protection fault in __ext4_journal_get_write_access (3) 2 1 236d 236d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/29 07:49
linux-6.1 general protection fault in __ext4_journal_get_write_access (4) 2 1 108d 108d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/06 15:43

Sample crash report:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 128
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem without journal. Quota mode: none.
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000007: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]
CPU: 0 PID: 7615 Comm: syz.0.1093 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:__ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xc3/0x6e0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:231
Code: 31 c0 49 8d 5e 30 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 2b 9c b4 ff 48 8b 1b 48 83 c3 38 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 0e 9c b4 ff 4c 8b 23 4d 85 e4 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000564f820 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 0000000000000038 RCX: 9d50618206cb5a00
RDX: ffff88805327d940 RSI: ffffffff8a8c23a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf0f60
RBP: ffffc9000564f8f0 R08: ffff8880680abae0 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c3faee R12: ffff88807506e000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880680abae0 R15: 1ffff92000ac9f0c
FS:  00007fe5743196c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f11655fff8c CR3: 0000000019e6d000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ext4_update_primary_sb fs/ext4/ioctl.c:67 [inline]
 ext4_update_superblocks_fn+0x287/0x1040 fs/ext4/ioctl.c:221
 ext4_fill_super+0x2ac4/0x7dc0 fs/ext4/super.c:5706
 get_tree_bdev+0x3f1/0x610 fs/super.c:1366
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1573
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3078
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3421 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3629 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e3/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3606
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fe57339da0a
Code: 48 c7 c2 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fe574318e58 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe574318ee0 RCX: 00007fe57339da0a
RDX: 0000200000000100 RSI: 0000200000000180 RDI: 00007fe574318ea0
RBP: 0000200000000100 R08: 00007fe574318ee0 R09: 0000000002000c16
R10: 0000000002000c16 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000180
R13: 00007fe574318ea0 R14: 000000000000025e R15: 0000200000000280
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xc3/0x6e0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:231
Code: 31 c0 49 8d 5e 30 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 2b 9c b4 ff 48 8b 1b 48 83 c3 38 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 0e 9c b4 ff 4c 8b 23 4d 85 e4 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000564f820 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 0000000000000038 RCX: 9d50618206cb5a00
RDX: ffff88805327d940 RSI: ffffffff8a8c23a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf0f60
RBP: ffffc9000564f8f0 R08: ffff8880680abae0 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c3faee R12: ffff88807506e000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880680abae0 R15: 1ffff92000ac9f0c
FS:  00007fe5743196c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f93cede82f8 CR3: 0000000019e6d000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	31 c0                	xor    %eax,%eax
   2:	49 8d 5e 30          	lea    0x30(%r14),%rbx
   6:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
   9:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
   d:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1)
  12:	74 08                	je     0x1c
  14:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  17:	e8 2b 9c b4 ff       	call   0xffb49c47
  1c:	48 8b 1b             	mov    (%rbx),%rbx
  1f:	48 83 c3 38          	add    $0x38,%rbx
  23:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  34:	e8 0e 9c b4 ff       	call   0xffb49c47
  39:	4c 8b 23             	mov    (%rbx),%r12
  3c:	4d 85 e4             	test   %r12,%r12
  3f:	4c                   	rex.WR

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/07 01:27 linux-6.1.y f2ddafa93a25 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan general protection fault in __ext4_journal_get_write_access
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.