general protection fault in raid5_quiesce

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/10/19 05:11
Subsystems: raid
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+0b672810a475890d3636@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 21d, last: 15h00m
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
1c7ce1f0 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ ❓ general protection fault in raid5_quiesce 2026/10/18 20:32 2026/10/18 20:32 2026/10/18 21:51 432c0077
f7f4c3a1 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ general protection fault in raid5_quiesce 2026/09/30 07:55 2026/09/30 07:55 2026/09/30 08:10 7808aef4
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[PATCH] md: don't allow changing the personality of a failed array 1 (1) 2026/10/19 19:36
[syzbot] [raid?] general protection fault in raid5_quiesce 0 (1) 2026/10/19 05:11
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 general protection fault in raid5_quiesce 2 1 26d 26d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/09/23 05:05
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/10/19 04:19 50m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git f909e534f5e34feb2ea2701d54df63e21aa506fc report job log log

Sample crash report:
md/raid:md0: not enough operational devices (1/3 failed)
md/raid:md0: failed to run raid set.
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000c: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000060-0x0000000000000067]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5902 Comm: syz-executor169 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/07/2026
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x12/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
Code: 79 ff ff ff 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 c1 ef 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <0f> b6 04 07 3c 08 0f 92 c0 e9 90 e7 2a 09 cc 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000544f708 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff8b5cf203 RCX: 8000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b5cf203 RDI: 000000000000000c
RBP: ffffc9000544f870 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff87ff0a50 R12: 0000000000000060
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000060 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  000055556c882400(0000) GS:ffff8881249b9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055d585e02cd0 CR3: 0000000044162000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __kasan_check_byte+0x12/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:584
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x7d/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5916
 rt_spin_lock+0x83/0x400 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:56
 spin_lock_irq include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:96 [inline]
 lock_all_device_hash_locks_irq drivers/md/raid5.c:107 [inline]
 raid5_quiesce+0xc2/0x8a0 drivers/md/raid5.c:-1
 __md_stop_writes+0xeb/0x4b0 drivers/md/md.c:7038
 md_set_readonly+0x330/0x560 drivers/md/md.c:7138
 array_state_store+0x584/0xe90 drivers/md/md.c:4720
 md_attr_store+0x3b7/0x640 drivers/md/md.c:6158
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a5/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x61e/0xbb0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fb4d4570f77
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 98 1d 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffcae126a10 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055556c882400 RCX: 00007fb4d4570f77
RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 00007fb4d45aa11f RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 000055556c8823d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000006
R13: ffffffffffffffff R14: 0000000000000005 R15: 00000000ffffffff
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x12/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210
Code: 79 ff ff ff 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 c1 ef 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <0f> b6 04 07 3c 08 0f 92 c0 e9 90 e7 2a 09 cc 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000544f708 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff8b5cf203 RCX: 8000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b5cf203 RDI: 000000000000000c
RBP: ffffc9000544f870 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff87ff0a50 R12: 0000000000000060
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000060 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  000055556c882400(0000) GS:ffff8881249b9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055d585e02cd0 CR3: 0000000044162000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess), 4 bytes skipped:
   0:	0f 1f 40 00          	nopl   0x0(%rax)
   4:	90                   	nop
   5:	90                   	nop
   6:	90                   	nop
   7:	90                   	nop
   8:	90                   	nop
   9:	90                   	nop
   a:	90                   	nop
   b:	90                   	nop
   c:	90                   	nop
   d:	90                   	nop
   e:	90                   	nop
   f:	90                   	nop
  10:	90                   	nop
  11:	90                   	nop
  12:	90                   	nop
  13:	90                   	nop
  14:	0f 1f 40 d6          	nopl   -0x2a(%rax)
  18:	48 c1 ef 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdi
  1c:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  23:	fc ff df
* 26:	0f b6 04 07          	movzbl (%rdi,%rax,1),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2a:	3c 08                	cmp    $0x8,%al
  2c:	0f 92 c0             	setb   %al
  2f:	e9 90 e7 2a 09       	jmp    0x92ae7c4
  34:	cc                   	int3
  35:	66                   	data16
  36:	66                   	data16
  37:	66                   	data16
  38:	66                   	data16
  39:	66                   	data16
  3a:	66                   	data16
  3b:	2e                   	cs

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/19 05:10 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git f909e534f5e3 a3c7249d .config console log report C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in raid5_quiesce
2026/09/28 10:52 upstream 72d3fcf802c4 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root general protection fault in raid5_quiesce
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.