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possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/04 21:33
Subsystems: overlayfs ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+ad6118a7584b607c67f2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d13h, last: 1d02h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [overlayfs?] [ext4?] possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories (2) 0 (1) 2026/06/04 21:33
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories ext4 4 7 1139d 1352d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/21 19:52
linux-4.14 possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories 4 1 2245d 2245d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/08/10 20:40

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs (loop0): stripe (5) is not aligned with cluster size (16), stripe is disabled
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 r/w without journal. Quota mode: none.
======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
syzkaller #0 Not tainted
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syz.0.47/5907 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff8880462f2010 (&ovl_i_mutex_key[depth]){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:1029 [inline]
ffff8880462f2010 (&ovl_i_mutex_key[depth]){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: lock_two_nondirectories+0xe7/0x180 fs/inode.c:1254

but task is already holding lock:
ffff88803ab12480 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write_file+0x63/0x210 fs/namespace.c:537

which lock already depends on the new lock.


the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}-{0:0}:
       percpu_down_read_internal include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:53 [inline]
       percpu_down_read_freezable include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:83 [inline]
       __sb_start_write include/linux/fs/super.h:19 [inline]
       sb_start_write+0x4d/0x1c0 include/linux/fs/super.h:125
       file_start_write include/linux/fs.h:2724 [inline]
       vfs_iter_write+0x1f8/0x610 fs/read_write.c:982
       do_backing_file_write_iter fs/backing-file.c:226 [inline]
       backing_file_write_iter+0x5e7/0x950 fs/backing-file.c:274
       ovl_write_iter+0x2fd/0x3d0 fs/overlayfs/file.c:370
       new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
       vfs_write+0x629/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:688
       ksys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:795 [inline]
       __do_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:803 [inline]
       __se_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:800 [inline]
       __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x19c/0x230 fs/read_write.c:800
       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

-> #0 (&ovl_i_mutex_key[depth]){+.+.}-{4:4}:
       check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3165 [inline]
       check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3284 [inline]
       validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3908 [inline]
       __lock_acquire+0x15a5/0x2cf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237
       lock_acquire+0x106/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
       down_write+0x3a/0x50 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1625
       inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:1029 [inline]
       lock_two_nondirectories+0xe7/0x180 fs/inode.c:1254
       ext4_move_extents+0x20f/0x3950 fs/ext4/move_extent.c:589
       __ext4_ioctl fs/ext4/ioctl.c:1657 [inline]
       ext4_ioctl+0x3092/0x4b40 fs/ext4/ioctl.c:1922
       vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
       __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
       __se_sys_ioctl+0xff/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
       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

other info that might help us debug this:

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  rlock(sb_writers#4);
                               lock(&ovl_i_mutex_key[depth]);
                               lock(sb_writers#4);
  lock(&ovl_i_mutex_key[depth]);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

1 lock held by syz.0.47/5907:
 #0: ffff88803ab12480 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write_file+0x63/0x210 fs/namespace.c:537

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5907 Comm: syz.0.47 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_circular_bug+0x2e1/0x300 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2043
 check_noncircular+0x12e/0x150 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2175
 check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3165 [inline]
 check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3284 [inline]
 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3908 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0x15a5/0x2cf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237
 lock_acquire+0x106/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
 down_write+0x3a/0x50 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1625
 inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:1029 [inline]
 lock_two_nondirectories+0xe7/0x180 fs/inode.c:1254
 ext4_move_extents+0x20f/0x3950 fs/ext4/move_extent.c:589
 __ext4_ioctl fs/ext4/ioctl.c:1657 [inline]
 ext4_ioctl+0x3092/0x4b40 fs/ext4/ioctl.c:1922
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xff/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 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: 0033:0x7fcf9521ce59
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:00007ffd5befb878 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fcf95495fa0 RCX: 00007fcf9521ce59
RDX: 0000200000000040 RSI: 00000000c028660f RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007fcf952b2d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fcf95495fac R14: 00007fcf95495fa0 R15: 00007fcf95495fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/05 03:21 upstream 9154c4af7829 197909be .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-upstream-fs possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories
2026/06/05 00:57 upstream 9154c4af7829 197909be .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-upstream-fs possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories
2026/06/04 19:19 upstream ba3e43a9e601 197909be .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-upstream-fs possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories
2026/06/04 18:31 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ec7ef10b77a6 197909be .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories
2026/06/04 17:47 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ec7ef10b77a6 197909be .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories
2026/06/04 17:01 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ec7ef10b77a6 197909be .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories
2026/06/04 16:16 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ec7ef10b77a6 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 possible deadlock in lock_two_nondirectories
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.