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WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty (3)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/08/10 17:42
Subsystems: mm fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+c89af27ab247f308779b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 103d, last: 6d00h
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty (2) gfs2 -1 C error 790989 136d 993d 29/29 fixed on 2025/07/16 19:06
upstream WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty gfs2 -1 C error 1791 997d 1481d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
linux-6.1 WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty origin:upstream missing-backport -1 C inconclusive 456511 10m 985d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/03/08 12:14
linux-6.6 WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty origin:lts-only -1 C done 31939 2h39m 154d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/16 17:15

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5318 at mm/page-writeback.c:2716 __folio_mark_dirty+0x202/0xe30 mm/page-writeback.c:2716
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5318 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__folio_mark_dirty+0x202/0xe30 mm/page-writeback.c:2716
Code: 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 9b c8 2a 00 4c 8b 33 4c 89 f6 48 83 e6 08 31 ff e8 0a 82 c3 ff 49 83 e6 08 75 20 e8 1f 7d c3 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb 1a e8 14 7d c3 ff 48 8b 2c 24 e9 74 07 00 00 e8 06 7d
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000fe2f7d0 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: ffffffff81fc9651 RBX: ffffea000044ddc0 RCX: ffff888037834900
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88801260aaf8 R08: ffffea000044ddc7 R09: 1ffffd4000089bb8
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff94000089bb9 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88801260ab00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  000055557caf6500(0000) GS:ffff88808d730000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000140 CR3: 000000003f6be000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 block_dirty_folio+0x17a/0x1d0 fs/buffer.c:754
 ext4_block_page_mkwrite fs/ext4/inode.c:6649 [inline]
 ext4_page_mkwrite+0xf07/0x1190 fs/ext4/inode.c:6746
 do_page_mkwrite+0x14d/0x310 mm/memory.c:3489
 wp_page_shared mm/memory.c:3890 [inline]
 do_wp_page+0x268d/0x5800 mm/memory.c:4109
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6211 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault+0x1033/0x5400 mm/memory.c:6336
 handle_mm_fault+0x40a/0x8e0 mm/memory.c:6505
 do_user_addr_fault+0xa7c/0x1380 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1336
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1476 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x82/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1532
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
RIP: 0033:0x7f8177055543
Code: 8b 44 24 08 48 85 c0 74 17 48 8b 54 24 18 48 0f ca 48 89 54 24 18 48 83 f8 01 0f 85 7a 02 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 48 8b 54 24 18 <48> 89 10 e9 d2 fd ff ff 48 8b 44 24 10 0f b7 10 48 8b 44 24 08 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffd0c6cb1a0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000200000000140 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 000055557caf63c8
RBP: 00007ffd0c6cb2a8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00007f81773e5fac
R13: 00007f81773e5fa0 R14: fffffffffffffffe R15: 00007ffd0c6cb2f0
 </TASK>

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/11 23:26 upstream 24172e0d7990 4e1406b4 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/10/31 10:09 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/10/30 05:18 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/10/26 00:19 upstream 566771afc7a8 c0460fcd .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/10/18 11:24 upstream f406055cb18c 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/10/15 04:19 upstream 9b332cece987 b6605ba8 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/10/11 18:23 upstream 0739473694c4 ff1712fe .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/10/11 02:01 upstream 917167ed1211 ff1712fe .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/10/07 23:49 upstream c746c3b51698 7e2882b3 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
2025/08/06 17:39 upstream 479058002c32 4bd24a3e .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in __folio_mark_dirty
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.