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WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2024/10/18 00:39
Subsystems: ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+b75d75f957975f3d40e3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 165d, last: 7d07h
Cause bisection: the issue happens on the oldest tested release (bisect log)
Crash: WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
Fix bisection: the issue occurs on the latest tested release (bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [ext4?] WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start (2) 0 (1) 2024/10/18 00:39
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start 1 171d 171d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/15 23:20
upstream WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start ext4 syz 3 289d 337d 0/28 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/10 22:22
Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/03/11 04:59 20m retest repro upstream report log
2024/11/11 00:14 17m retest repro upstream report log

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2903 at fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76 ext4_journal_check_start+0x1f8/0x250 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2903 Comm: kworker/u8:6 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3-syzkaller-00087-gc964ced77262 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:2)
RIP: 0010:ext4_journal_check_start+0x1f8/0x250 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:76
Code: 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f e9 c1 ca 97 09 e8 01 71 3c ff 41 bf fb ff ff ff eb e2 e8 f4 70 3c ff 90 0f 0b 90 eb d1 e8 e9 70 3c ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 43 80 7c 25 00 00 0f 85 03 ff ff ff e9 06 ff ff ff 89 d9
RSP: 0018:ffffc90009d46c40 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff82587667 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: ffff88802f5a5a00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffffffff82587564 R09: 1ffff1100f968870
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100f968871 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff1100f9684c7 R14: ffff88807cb42000 R15: ffff88807cb42638
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f60253c26c0 CR3: 000000007ba9e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x181/0x600 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:105
 __ext4_journal_start fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h:326 [inline]
 ext4_do_writepages+0x112c/0x3d20 fs/ext4/inode.c:2707
 ext4_writepages+0x213/0x3c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2813
 do_writepages+0x35f/0x870 mm/page-writeback.c:2683
 __writeback_single_inode+0x14f/0x10d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1658
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x80c/0x1370 fs/fs-writeback.c:1954
 wb_writeback+0x41b/0xbd0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2134
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2281 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0x410/0x1090 fs/fs-writeback.c:2321
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa65/0x1850 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
 worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
 kthread+0x2f2/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
 </TASK>

Crashes (23):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2024/10/17 17:03 upstream c964ced77262 666f77ed .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1] [mounted in repro #2] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/03/20 23:14 upstream 5fc319360819 62330552 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/03/20 18:14 upstream a7f2e10ecd8f 62330552 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/03/12 18:27 upstream 0fed89a961ea ee70e6db .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/17 16:48 upstream 0ad2507d5d93 9be4ace3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/11 02:40 upstream febbc555cf0f 43f51a00 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/09 18:32 upstream 9946eaf552b1 ef44b750 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/08 16:49 upstream 8f6629c004b1 ef44b750 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/08 10:06 upstream 7ee983c850b4 ef44b750 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/01 09:24 upstream 69e858e0b8b2 aa47157c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/01/16 19:44 upstream ce69b4019001 f9e07a6e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/01/10 21:21 upstream 2144da25584e 6dbc6a9b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2024/12/24 19:20 upstream 9b2ffa6148b1 444551c4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2024/10/27 23:11 upstream 284a2f899676 65e8686b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2024/10/14 00:27 upstream ba01565ced22 084d8178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/03/13 23:28 upstream 4003c9e78778 e2826670 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/17 14:50 upstream 0ad2507d5d93 4121cf9d .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/01/21 07:08 upstream 3d3a9c8b89d4 6e87cfa2 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/01/12 04:20 upstream b62cef9a5c67 6dbc6a9b .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/25 01:50 linux-next e5d3fd687aac d34966d1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/09 02:28 linux-next ed58d103e6da ef44b750 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/02/05 21:24 linux-next ed88b8b82c53 577d049b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
2025/01/07 01:27 linux-next 8155b4ef3466 f3558dbf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_journal_check_start
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.