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WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/27 20:56
Subsystems: ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+85d8bf8b2759214b194b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 575d, last: 49d
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[syzbot] [ext4?] WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb 0 (1) 2024/04/27 20:56
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb -1 1 280d 280d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/23 17:46
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/11/16 09:13 37m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci OK log
2025/09/07 07:12 57m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/07/17 10:40 37m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci OK log
2025/06/29 06:23 35m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/05/04 14:53 34m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/04/20 03:27 39m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/04/20 03:10 24m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/02/23 05:19 32m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/02/09 02:31 27m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2024/12/05 05:13 26m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7614 at fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76 ext4_journal_check_start fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7614 at fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76 __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x460/0x88c fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:108
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7614 Comm: syz.3.132 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/30/2025
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : ext4_journal_check_start fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76 [inline]
pc : __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x460/0x88c fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:108
lr : ext4_journal_check_start fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76 [inline]
lr : __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x460/0x88c fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:108
sp : ffff8000a5037510
x29: ffff8000a5037520 x28: 1fffe0001ba928c8 x27: dfff800000000000
x26: ffff0000dd494050 x25: ffff0000dd494640 x24: ffff0000dd494000
x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000070810001 x18: 1fffe0003378f088
x17: ffff80008f7ee000 x16: ffff80008052aa64 x15: 0000000000000001
x14: 1fffe00033791b00 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000080000 x10: 0000000000001e63 x9 : ffff8000a755d000
x8 : 0000000000001e64 x7 : ffff800080493090 x6 : 0000000000000080
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 ext4_journal_check_start fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76 [inline] (P)
 __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x460/0x88c fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:108 (P)
 ext4_sample_last_mounted fs/ext4/file.c:869 [inline]
 ext4_file_open+0x5ac/0x84c fs/ext4/file.c:901
 do_dentry_open+0x7a4/0x10bc fs/open.c:965
 vfs_open+0x44/0x2d4 fs/open.c:1095
 do_open fs/namei.c:3887 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2424/0x2c40 fs/namei.c:4046
 do_filp_open+0x18c/0x36c fs/namei.c:4073
 do_sys_openat2+0x11c/0x1b4 fs/open.c:1435
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1450 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1466 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1461 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_openat+0x120/0x158 fs/open.c:1461
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x254 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
 el0_svc+0x5c/0x254 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x12c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:763
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:596
irq event stamp: 224
hardirqs last  enabled at (223): [<ffff800080493124>] raw_spin_rq_unlock_irq kernel/sched/sched.h:1531 [inline]
hardirqs last  enabled at (223): [<ffff800080493124>] finish_lock_switch+0xb0/0x1c0 kernel/sched/core.c:5105
hardirqs last disabled at (224): [<ffff80008b01a2c4>] el1_brk64+0x20/0x54 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:434
softirqs last  enabled at (208): [<ffff8000803da960>] softirq_handle_end kernel/softirq.c:425 [inline]
softirqs last  enabled at (208): [<ffff8000803da960>] handle_softirqs+0xaf8/0xc88 kernel/softirq.c:607
softirqs last disabled at (81): [<ffff800080022028>] __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:613
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/01 08:40 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 2213e57a69f0 65a0eece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb
2025/07/03 01:43 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 25b50375179c 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb
2025/06/03 02:37 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci d7fa1af5b33e b396b4bf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb
2025/03/17 23:18 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci a5618886fdab ce3352cd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb
2025/01/25 05:37 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 1950a0af2d55 9fbd772e .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb
2025/01/25 03:52 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 1950a0af2d55 9fbd772e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb
2024/04/23 20:50 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 6a71d2909427 21339d7b .config console log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __ext4_journal_start_sb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.