WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/13 00:09
Subsystems: block
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+643a6dd130546afdf1fb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: 4e1f23f9c33c null_blk: serialize configfs attribute updates with device setup
Patched on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 14d, last: 4d16h
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
2a383328 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones 2026/08/13 10:22 2026/08/13 10:22 2026/08/13 10:42 67796a05
d0052de3 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones 2026/08/10 01:06 2026/08/10 01:06 2026/08/10 01:37 5d63f80b
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] null_blk: serialize configfs attribute updates with device setup 5 (5) 2026/08/16 00:01
[syzbot] [block?] WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones 0 (1) 2026/08/13 00:09
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/13 11:29 20m nogikh@google.com upstream report job log log

Sample crash report:
null_blk: nullb1: using native zone append
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!blk_queue_is_zoned(q)
WARNING: block/blk-zoned.c:2357 at blk_revalidate_disk_zones+0xfd1/0x12e0 block/blk-zoned.c:2357, CPU#1: syz.2.1640/11162
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 11162 Comm: syz.2.1640 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:blk_revalidate_disk_zones+0xfd1/0x12e0 block/blk-zoned.c:2357
Code: 84 e9 0d 48 3b 84 24 40 02 00 00 75 67 44 89 e0 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 96 d6 94 06 cc e8 10 de 10 fd 90 <0f> 0b 90 41 bc fb ff ff ff e9 57 ff ff ff 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000414f740 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: ffffffff84b4fbd0 RBX: 1ffff92000829ef8 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc90007739000 RSI: 0000000000001173 RDI: 0000000000001174
RBP: ffffc9000414f9d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000414f8e0 R11: fffff52000829f21 R12: 1ffff110080d5818
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f7b6beb66c0(0000) GS:ffff888125d38000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffafb6d56c8 CR3: 0000000038d4c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: ffffffffffffffff DR1: 00000000000001f8 DR2: 0000000000000002
DR3: ffffffffefffff15 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 null_add_dev+0x12c0/0x1d70 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:2047
 nullb_device_power_store+0x240/0x380 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:501
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x33a/0x430 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 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:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f7b6dc5e0d9
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:00007f7b6beb6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7b6dee5fa0 RCX: 00007f7b6dc5e0d9
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00002000000002c0 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f7b6dcf5024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7b6dee6038 R14: 00007f7b6dee5fa0 R15: 00007fffb92bae88
 </TASK>

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/18 16:43 upstream ff68e5f557f6 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones
2026/08/18 16:31 upstream ff68e5f557f6 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones
2026/08/10 19:44 upstream d58772d8520c 039457bd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones
2026/08/18 18:50 upstream 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones
2026/08/16 13:55 upstream 3eb40771c00a 746171ee .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones
2026/08/15 20:36 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones
2026/08/08 21:36 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ba5cc80fd326 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_revalidate_disk_zones
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.