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WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/10 09:46
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+48f1b5af9d99f72922d5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 78d, last: 6h11m
Bug presence (1)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/11/18 upstream (ToT) e7c375b18160 C [report] WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref origin:upstream -1 C 1378 24m 81d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/07 01:50
upstream WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref ext4 -1 C error 1291 29d 78d 29/29 fixed on 2025/10/29 21:02
linux-5.15 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref origin:upstream -1 C 769 1h14m 78d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/10 09:56
upstream WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref (2) ext4 -1 C error 1027 21m 28d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/30 22:34

Sample crash report:
syz.0.17[5949]: memfd_create() called without MFD_EXEC or MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL set
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 512
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EA inode 11 i_nlink=2
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5949 at fs/ext4/xattr.c:1075 ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref+0x4fb/0x550 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1073
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 5949 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref+0x4fb/0x550 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1073
Code: 8d 7e 50 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 c6 3b 9a ff 49 8b 37 48 c7 c7 a0 c3 be 8a 89 da e8 c5 5d 0d ff <0f> 0b 4c 8b 74 24 08 4c 8b 7c 24 10 e9 b9 fe ff ff e8 6f 1d 2c 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000464f2e0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: f1e7fe43e47a8000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: ffff8880277b9e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: ffffc9000464f3d0 R08: ffff8880b8f28c13 R09: 1ffff110171e5182
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e5183 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff8880726baca8 R14: ffff8880726baab0 R15: ffff8880726bab00
FS:  000055556442a500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f55c3f45000 CR3: 0000000075cb3000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref fs/ext4/xattr.c:1098 [inline]
 ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xa2b/0xf90 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1240
 ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xa45/0xc00 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2968
 ext4_evict_inode+0xaa3/0xea0 fs/ext4/inode.c:269
 evict+0x486/0x870 fs/inode.c:705
 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xbd4/0x1400 fs/ext4/orphan.c:470
 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5601 [inline]
 ext4_fill_super+0x5de4/0x66c0 fs/ext4/super.c:5724
 get_tree_bdev+0x3e4/0x510 fs/super.c:1591
 vfs_get_tree+0x8c/0x280 fs/super.c:1764
 do_new_mount+0x24b/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3386
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3726 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3935 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2da/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3912
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f95f6190e6a
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb a6 e8 de 1a 00 00 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffff618e618 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffff618e6a0 RCX: 00007f95f6190e6a
RDX: 0000200000000180 RSI: 00002000000001c0 RDI: 00007ffff618e660
RBP: 0000200000000180 R08: 00007ffff618e6a0 R09: 0000000001a08700
R10: 0000000001a08700 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00002000000001c0
R13: 00007ffff618e660 R14: 0000000000000470 R15: 0000200000000700
 </TASK>

Crashes (512):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/15 22:59 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/27 18:06 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/27 12:56 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/27 05:28 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/27 02:10 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/27 02:04 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/26 09:29 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/26 07:27 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/25 18:33 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/25 13:48 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/25 11:06 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/24 23:03 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 bf6fe8fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/24 22:52 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 bf6fe8fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/24 07:24 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/23 11:05 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/22 06:36 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/21 17:12 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 280ea308 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/21 17:09 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 280ea308 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/21 05:23 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 2cc4c24a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/21 01:54 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 2cc4c24a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/21 00:04 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 2cc4c24a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/20 08:06 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 26ee5237 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/20 05:38 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 26ee5237 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/19 01:37 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd ef766cd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/15 04:21 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd f7988ea4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/15 04:15 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd f7988ea4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/14 04:40 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/13 08:19 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/13 02:39 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/13 01:03 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/12 00:45 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/12 00:36 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/11 17:22 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/11 12:28 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/11 10:08 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/10 21:02 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/10 04:30 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/09 15:59 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/09 15:24 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/09 01:46 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/08 15:17 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/08 12:33 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/11/08 06:18 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/09/10 22:48 linux-6.6.y fe9731e10004 fdeaa69b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/09/10 09:45 linux-6.6.y fe9731e10004 fdeaa69b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.