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kernel BUG in bio_chain

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/11 15:20
Reported-by: syzbot+6932c6833ad7f040732b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d11h, last: 1d01h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/01/15 linux-6.6.y (ToT) c596736dadab C Failed due to an error; will retry later
2026/01/15 upstream (ToT) 603c05a1639f C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream kernel BUG in bio_chain gfs2 block -1 C error 5152 11m 39d 2/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/07 06:24
linux-6.1 kernel BUG in bio_chain -1 C 189 4h42m 4d11h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/11 15:09

Sample crash report:
syz.0.17[5931]: memfd_create() called without MFD_EXEC or MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL set
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 32768
gfs2: fsid=syz:syz: Trying to join cluster "lock_nolock", "syz:syz"
gfs2: fsid=syz:syz: Now mounting FS (format 1801)...
gfs2: fsid=syz:syz.s: journal 0 mapped with 3 extents in 0ms
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kernel BUG at block/bio.c:340!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 5931 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:bio_chain+0xe4/0xf0 block/bio.c:340
Code: d2 df dc fd f0 ff 43 1c 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 89 f9 80 e1 07 fe c1 38 c1 7c d4 e8 93 dd dc fd eb cd e8 bc 6d 85 fd <0f> 0b e8 b5 6d 85 fd 0f 0b 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 55 41 57 41 56 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc900033475b0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff84003d44 RBX: ffff88802e3b48c0 RCX: ffff888023c13c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88802e3b48c0 RDI: ffff88802e3b4a00
RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: ffffffff8e4a39ef R09: 1ffffffff1c9473d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c9473e R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff11005c76948 R14: ffff88802e3b4a00 R15: ffff88802e3b4a40
FS:  0000555590bc4500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fbdbd7a2000 CR3: 0000000076e4c000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 gfs2_chain_bio fs/gfs2/lops.c:495 [inline]
 gfs2_find_jhead+0x5fa/0xd20 fs/gfs2/lops.c:559
 check_journal_clean+0x191/0x300 fs/gfs2/util.c:76
 init_journal+0x17f1/0x2260 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:828
 init_inodes+0xdb/0x320 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:886
 gfs2_fill_super+0x1815/0x1f80 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1266
 get_tree_bdev+0x3e4/0x510 fs/super.c:1591
 gfs2_get_tree+0x51/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1344
 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:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fa08a190eea
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:00007fffa1ba55e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fffa1ba5670 RCX: 00007fa08a190eea
RDX: 000020000001f680 RSI: 000020000001f6c0 RDI: 00007fffa1ba5630
RBP: 000020000001f680 R08: 00007fffa1ba5670 R09: 0000000000000084
R10: 0000000000000084 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000020000001f6c0
R13: 00007fffa1ba5630 R14: 000000000001f707 R15: 00002000000000c0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:bio_chain+0xe4/0xf0 block/bio.c:340
Code: d2 df dc fd f0 ff 43 1c 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 89 f9 80 e1 07 fe c1 38 c1 7c d4 e8 93 dd dc fd eb cd e8 bc 6d 85 fd <0f> 0b e8 b5 6d 85 fd 0f 0b 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 55 41 57 41 56 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc900033475b0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff84003d44 RBX: ffff88802e3b48c0 RCX: ffff888023c13c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88802e3b48c0 RDI: ffff88802e3b4a00
RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: ffffffff8e4a39ef R09: 1ffffffff1c9473d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c9473e R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff11005c76948 R14: ffff88802e3b4a00 R15: ffff88802e3b4a40
FS:  0000555590bc4500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fbdbd1909c0 CR3: 0000000076e4c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

Crashes (89):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/12 17:45 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/15 01:42 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/12 10:49 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/12 06:38 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/12 05:59 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/12 04:19 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/12 03:36 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/12 02:32 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 23:39 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 23:36 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 23:35 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 23:08 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 23:07 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:58 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:58 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:42 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:41 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:35 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:34 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:30 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:23 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:22 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:09 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 22:08 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 21:58 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 21:57 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 21:31 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 21:31 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 20:49 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 20:47 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 20:45 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 20:45 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 19:34 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 19:34 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 19:18 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 18:26 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 18:26 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 18:26 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 18:25 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 18:16 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 18:15 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 16:42 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 16:41 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 16:14 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 16:14 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
2026/01/11 15:19 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in bio_chain
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.