WARNING in fat_ent_write

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/24 07:47
Subsystems: exfat
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+26461e903494e689c24f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d16h, last: 5d11h
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7309ee0c assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in fat_ent_write 2026/08/21 01:25 2026/08/21 01:25 2026/08/21 02:19 1e72964b
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] fat: Fix fat_ent_write() for reverting the value 1 (1) 2026/08/25 12:11
[syzbot] [exfat?] WARNING in fat_ent_write 1 (2) 2026/08/24 09:31

Sample crash report:
         and is ignored by this kernel. Remove the mand
         option from the mount to silence this warning.
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Buffer I/O error on dev loop0, logical block 1, lost sync page write
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!buffer_uptodate(bh)
WARNING: fs/buffer.c:991 at mark_buffer_dirty+0x299/0x410 fs/buffer.c:991, CPU#1: syz.0.17/5854
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5854 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:mark_buffer_dirty+0x299/0x410 fs/buffer.c:991
Code: 4c 89 f7 e8 09 0a d8 ff 49 8b 3e be 40 00 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 74 52 fb ff e8 4f 40 68 ff eb 8c e8 48 40 68 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 a5 fd ff ff e8 3a 40 68 ff 90 0f 0b 90 e9 cf fd ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000345f2d0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff825f7f28 RBX: ffff8880714019a0 RCX: ffff8880317c5dc0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: dffffc0000000001 R08: ffff8880714019a7 R09: 1ffff1100e280334
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100e280335 R12: ffffffff8c288c60
R13: ffff888032a9c248 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff8880717c46a8
FS:  00007fc05a3146c0(0000) GS:ffff888124dda000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f9293991000 CR3: 000000007992c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 mmb_mark_buffer_dirty+0x2c/0x1f0 fs/buffer.c:624
 fat_ent_write+0xb8/0x190 fs/fat/fatent.c:422
 fat_chain_add+0x409/0x8e0 fs/fat/misc.c:140
 fat_add_cluster fs/fat/inode.c:113 [inline]
 __fat_get_block fs/fat/inode.c:155 [inline]
 fat_get_block+0x768/0xae0 fs/fat/inode.c:190
 __block_write_begin_int+0x6c2/0x1900 fs/buffer.c:2030
 block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2144 [inline]
 cont_write_begin+0x71b/0xac0 fs/buffer.c:2506
 fat_write_begin+0x7a/0x150 fs/fat/inode.c:230
 cont_expand_zero fs/buffer.c:2434 [inline]
 cont_write_begin+0x2d6/0xac0 fs/buffer.c:2496
 fat_write_begin+0x7a/0x150 fs/fat/inode.c:230
 generic_perform_write+0x2d5/0x8f0 mm/filemap.c:4374
 generic_file_write_iter+0xae/0x330 mm/filemap.c:4517
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x612/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:794 [inline]
 __do_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:802 [inline]
 __se_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:799 [inline]
 __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x196/0x220 fs/read_write.c:799
 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: 0033:0x7fc05939e0d9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fc05a314028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000012
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fc059625fa0 RCX: 00007fc05939e0d9
RDX: 000000000000fdef RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fc059435024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000000fecc R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fc059626038 R14: 00007fc059625fa0 R15: 00007fff03653f68
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/20 12:39 linux-next 6a746cd265ae 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in fat_ent_write
2026/08/20 11:46 linux-next 6a746cd265ae 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in fat_ent_write
2026/08/20 10:51 linux-next 6a746cd265ae 1e72964b .config strace log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in fat_ent_write
2026/08/20 09:50 linux-next 6a746cd265ae 1e72964b .config strace log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in fat_ent_write
2026/08/20 08:44 linux-next 6a746cd265ae 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in fat_ent_write
2026/08/20 07:42 linux-next 6a746cd265ae 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in fat_ent_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.