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WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/30 22:34
Subsystems: ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+76916a45d2294b551fd9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d23h, last: 1h54m
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [ext4?] WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref (2) 1 (3) 2025/10/31 02:15
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref origin:upstream -1 C 332 1h26m 51d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/10 09:46
linux-6.1 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref origin:upstream -1 C 844 1h07m 54d 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 2d00h 50d 29/29 fixed on 2025/10/29 21:02
linux-5.15 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref origin:upstream -1 C 500 10m 51d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/10 09:56
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/10/31 01:53 21m lizhi.xu@windriver.com patch upstream OK log

Sample crash report:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 512
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_xattr_inode_get:546: inode #11: comm syz.0.17: ea_inode file size=0 entry size=6
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea:2853: Unable to expand inode 15. Delete some EAs or run e2fsck.
------------[ cut here ]------------
EA inode 11 i_nlink=2
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6067 at fs/ext4/xattr.c:1058 ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref+0x51a/0x5b0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1056
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6067 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref+0x51a/0x5b0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1056
Code: 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 0f b6 04 06 84 c0 0f 85 80 00 00 00 41 8b 17 48 c7 c7 00 9b ff 8a 4c 89 e6 e8 a7 9a 03 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 4c 8b 6c 24 28 e9 59 fe ff ff e8 53 e6 40 08 44 89 f9
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003d47240 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 8bb944658c8ccb00 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff8880266f8000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90003d47330 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed101710487b R12: 000000000000000b
R13: ffff8880578d6ee8 R14: 1ffff1100af1adc3 R15: ffff8880578d6e18
FS:  000055558a757500(0000) GS:ffff888126df9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f30e258a000 CR3: 000000003ea4e000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref fs/ext4/xattr.c:1081 [inline]
 ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0x867/0xda0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1223
 ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xa4c/0xc10 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2947
 ext4_evict_inode+0xac9/0xee0 fs/ext4/inode.c:271
 evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810
 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xc20/0x1460 fs/ext4/orphan.c:470
 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5617 [inline]
 ext4_fill_super+0x593b/0x61f0 fs/ext4/super.c:5736
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1691
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1751
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1208 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3651 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x302/0xa10 fs/namespace.c:3727
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4050 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4238 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x313/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4215
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa76e0a076a
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:00007ffe3ed4a578 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe3ed4a600 RCX: 00007fa76e0a076a
RDX: 0000200000000180 RSI: 00002000000001c0 RDI: 00007ffe3ed4a5c0
RBP: 0000200000000180 R08: 00007ffe3ed4a600 R09: 0000000000800700
R10: 0000000000800700 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00002000000001c0
R13: 00007ffe3ed4a5c0 R14: 000000000000046c R15: 0000200000000680
 </TASK>

Crashes (63):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/31 10:24 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 19:51 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 13:35 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 07:08 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:39 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:39 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:36 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:35 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:35 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:35 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:33 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:32 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:32 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 20:17 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 20:16 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 20:13 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 20:13 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 20:05 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 20:01 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 20:01 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 18:50 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 18:49 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 19:15 upstream 58fdd8484c05 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 19:13 upstream 58fdd8484c05 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:44 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:44 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:43 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:43 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:43 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:43 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:43 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:42 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 05:42 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/31 00:38 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 20:00 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 18:52 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 18:52 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 18:51 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 18:50 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 18:49 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 18:49 upstream e53642b87a4f 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 03:59 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/30 04:00 linux-next f9ba12abc528 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/29 21:14 linux-next f9ba12abc528 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/29 21:13 linux-next f9ba12abc528 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
2025/10/29 21:13 linux-next f9ba12abc528 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.