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WARNING in vfs_setxattr (3)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/15 12:51
Subsystems: gfs2
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Reported-by: syzbot+5ce48a14916462cec450@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 646d, last: 3h02m
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[syzbot] Monthly gfs2 report (Dec 2025) 0 (1) 2025/12/18 10:06
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[syzbot] Monthly gfs2 report (Sep 2025) 0 (1) 2025/09/15 06:54
[syzbot] [gfs2?] WARNING in vfs_setxattr (3) 0 (1) 2025/08/15 12:51
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in vfs_setxattr -1 12 231d 510d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/09 22:45
upstream WARNING in vfs_setxattr fs -1 1 1108d 1104d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/06 11:38
linux-6.1 WARNING in vfs_setxattr -1 130 12d 646d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/04/12 18:51
upstream WARNING in vfs_setxattr (2) fs -1 1 948d 944d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/13 15:16
linux-5.15 WARNING in vfs_setxattr (2) -1 3 25d 90d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/10/20 19:54
linux-6.6 WARNING in vfs_setxattr -1 12 2d06h 186d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/16 17:24

Sample crash report:
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DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON((rwsem_owner(sem) != current) && !rwsem_test_oflags(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE)): count = 0x0, magic = 0xffff8880466e80d8, owner = 0x0, curr 0xffff888000f2c980, list empty
WARNING: kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1381 at __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1380 [inline], CPU#0: syz.0.29/5624
WARNING: kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1381 at up_write+0x2d8/0x410 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1643, CPU#0: syz.0.29/5624
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5624 Comm: syz.0.29 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1380 [inline]
RIP: 0010:up_write+0x38a/0x410 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1643
Code: 6b 8b 49 c7 c2 c0 23 6b 8b 4c 0f 44 d0 48 8b 7c 24 08 48 c7 c6 e0 24 6b 8b 48 8b 14 24 4c 89 f1 4d 89 e0 4c 8b 4c 24 10 41 52 <67> 48 0f b9 3a 48 83 c4 08 e8 68 9e ee 02 e9 66 fd ff ff 48 c7 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032f7a40 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffff8b6b23a0 RBX: ffff8880466e80d8 RCX: ffff8880466e80d8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b6b24e0 RDI: ffffffff8f858550
RBP: ffff8880466e8130 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff888000f2c980
R10: ffffffff8b6b23a0 R11: ffffed1008cdd01d R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880466e80d8 R15: 1ffff11008cdd01c
FS:  00007f9234cd26c0(0000) GS:ffff88808d414000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f9234c8ffc8 CR3: 0000000040cf7000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:1037 [inline]
 vfs_setxattr+0x17a/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:323
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:636 [inline]
 filename_setxattr+0x274/0x600 fs/xattr.c:665
 path_setxattrat+0x364/0x3a0 fs/xattr.c:713
 __do_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:747 [inline]
 __se_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:743 [inline]
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0xbc/0xe0 fs/xattr.c:743
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f9233d8f7c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f9234cd2038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000bc
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9233fe6090 RCX: 00007f9233d8f7c9
RDX: 0000200000000100 RSI: 00002000000002c0 RDI: 0000200000000280
RBP: 00007f9233e13f91 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000001001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9233fe6128 R14: 00007f9233fe6090 R15: 00007ffe729e4c98
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	6b 8b 49 c7 c2 c0 23 	imul   $0x23,-0x3f3d38b7(%rbx),%ecx
   7:	6b 8b 4c 0f 44 d0 48 	imul   $0x48,-0x2fbbf0b4(%rbx),%ecx
   e:	8b 7c 24 08          	mov    0x8(%rsp),%edi
  12:	48 c7 c6 e0 24 6b 8b 	mov    $0xffffffff8b6b24e0,%rsi
  19:	48 8b 14 24          	mov    (%rsp),%rdx
  1d:	4c 89 f1             	mov    %r14,%rcx
  20:	4d 89 e0             	mov    %r12,%r8
  23:	4c 8b 4c 24 10       	mov    0x10(%rsp),%r9
  28:	41 52                	push   %r10
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	48 83 c4 08          	add    $0x8,%rsp
  33:	e8 68 9e ee 02       	call   0x2ee9ea0
  38:	e9 66 fd ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffda3
  3d:	48                   	rex.W
  3e:	c7                   	.byte 0xc7
  3f:	c1                   	.byte 0xc1

Crashes (603):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/19 03:56 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/08/15 12:50 upstream 24ea63ea3877 dcc075fb .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/12 21:48 upstream b71e635feefc d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/08 11:29 upstream f0b9d8eb98df d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/31 20:38 upstream c8ebd433459b d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2024/06/21 15:43 upstream 50736169ecc8 dac2aa43 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2024/06/21 14:03 upstream 50736169ecc8 dac2aa43 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/18 15:59 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/18 11:56 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/17 16:34 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/17 14:27 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/17 06:44 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/16 10:35 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/15 17:28 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/15 00:46 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/14 17:05 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/13 21:25 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/13 13:50 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/13 06:20 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/13 03:00 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/12 19:44 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/10 23:19 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/09 21:24 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/09 10:19 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/08 08:46 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/07 20:54 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/07 15:16 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/07 04:38 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/06 14:36 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/05 23:13 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/05 19:16 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/05 10:45 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/05 06:19 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/03 07:12 upstream 9b0436804460 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/03 04:15 upstream 9b0436804460 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/02 08:54 upstream b69053dd3ffb d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/01 22:14 upstream b69053dd3ffb d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/01 06:00 upstream 349bd28a86f2 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/31 16:18 upstream c8ebd433459b d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/31 09:46 upstream c8ebd433459b d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/30 09:49 upstream 8640b74557fc d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/30 06:26 upstream 8640b74557fc d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/28 22:50 upstream c875a6c32467 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/28 14:29 upstream d26143bb38e2 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/27 22:07 upstream c53f467229a7 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/27 08:15 upstream 3f0e9c8cefa9 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/26 07:21 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/25 19:00 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/23 23:09 upstream b927546677c8 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2024/06/21 01:30 upstream 50736169ecc8 c2e07261 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/05 08:07 linux-next f8f97927abf7 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2024/09/04 21:49 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci df54f4a16f82 9d47f20a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2024/04/15 17:02 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci b5d2afe8745b c8349e48 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2024/04/13 05:46 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci b5d2afe8745b c8349e48 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in vfs_setxattr
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.