linux-next test error: WARNING in __change_page_attr_set_clr

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/05 09:36
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+e623a6a4fd4d4cac4504@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 12h14m, last: 7h25m
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[syzbot] [kernel?] linux-next test error: WARNING in __change_page_attr_set_clr 0 (1) 2026/09/05 09:36

Sample crash report:
clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
kfence: initialized - using 2097152 bytes for 255 objects at 0xffff88823be00000-0xffff88823c000000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
printk: legacy bootconsole [earlyser0] disabled
printk: legacy bootconsole [earlyser0] disabled
Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES:  8
... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH:          48
... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS:        8192
... CLASSHASH_SIZE:          4096
... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES:     1048576
... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS:      1048576
... CHAINHASH_SIZE:          524288
 memory used by lock dependency info: 106625 kB
 memory used for stack traces: 8320 kB
 per task-struct memory footprint: 1920 bytes
mempolicy: Enabling automatic NUMA balancing. Configure with numa_balancing= or the kernel.numa_balancing sysctl
ACPI: Core revision 20260408
APIC: Switch to symmetric I/O mode setup
x2apic enabled
APIC: Switched APIC routing to: physical x2apic
..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x1fb63109b96, max_idle_ns: 440795265316 ns
Calibrating delay loop (skipped) preset value.. 4399.99 BogoMIPS (lpj=21999980)
Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 64, 2MB 8, 4MB 8
Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 64, 2MB 32, 4MB 32, 1GB 4
mitigations: Enabled attack vectors: user_kernel, user_user, guest_host, guest_guest, SMT mitigations: auto
Speculative Store Bypass: Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Spectre V2 : Mitigation: IBRS
RETBleed: Mitigation: IBRS
ITS: Mitigation: Aligned branch/return thunks
Spectre V2 : User space: Mitigation: STIBP via prctl
MDS: Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers
TAA: Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers
MMIO Stale Data: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode
Spectre V1 : Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Spectre V2 : Spectre v2 / SpectreRSB: Filling RSB on context switch and VMEXIT
Spectre V2 : Enabling IBPB for BPF
Spectre V2 : mitigation: Enabling conditional Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
active return thunk: its_return_thunk
Spectre V2 : Spectre BHI mitigation: SW BHB clearing on syscall and VM exit
x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]:  576, xstate_sizes[2]:  256
x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'standard' format.
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CPA detected W^X violation: 8000000000000023 -> 0000000000000023 range: 0xffffffffa0000000 - 0xffffffffa0000fff PFN 140600
WARNING: arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:725 at verify_rwx arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:722 [inline], CPU#0: swapper/0/0
WARNING: arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:725 at __change_page_attr arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:1892 [inline], CPU#0: swapper/0/0
WARNING: arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:725 at __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x1d69/0x2820 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:2064, CPU#0: swapper/0/0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:verify_rwx arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:722 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__change_page_attr arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:1892 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__change_page_attr_set_clr+0x1d79/0x2820 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:2064
Code: 00 00 e8 ba 6c 4d 00 48 8b 4c 24 30 4c 8d 81 ff 0f 00 00 48 8d 3d 07 be 02 0f 48 8b b4 24 a0 00 00 00 4c 89 f2 4c 8b 4c 24 50 <67> 48 0f b9 3a e9 8d 00 00 00 e8 88 6c 4d 00 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03
RSP: 0000:ffffffff8ea07820 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff817a6b66 RBX: 8000000140600023 RCX: ffffffffa0000000
RDX: 0000000000000023 RSI: 8000000000000023 RDI: ffffffff907d2980
RBP: ffffffff8ea07ad0 R08: ffffffffa0000fff R09: 0000000000140600
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d40ef4 R12: 8000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000023 R15: 8000000000000002
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124cbf000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff88823ffff000 CR3: 000000000eb48000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 change_page_attr_set_clr+0x398/0x11d0 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:2152
 change_page_attr_clear arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:2190 [inline]
 set_memory_x+0xd6/0x110 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:2351
 its_alloc arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:236 [inline]
 its_allocate_thunk arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:258 [inline]
 emit_its_trampoline arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:834 [inline]
 patch_retpoline arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:945 [inline]
 apply_retpolines+0x8e9/0x15a0 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:1010
 alternative_instructions+0x3a/0x100 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2283
 arch_cpu_finalize_init+0xb2/0x1f0 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:2643
 start_kernel+0x310/0x3e0 init/main.c:1153
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:310
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x137/0x1b0 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:291
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x157
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   2:	e8 ba 6c 4d 00       	call   0x4d6cc1
   7:	48 8b 4c 24 30       	mov    0x30(%rsp),%rcx
   c:	4c 8d 81 ff 0f 00 00 	lea    0xfff(%rcx),%r8
  13:	48 8d 3d 07 be 02 0f 	lea    0xf02be07(%rip),%rdi        # 0xf02be21
  1a:	48 8b b4 24 a0 00 00 	mov    0xa0(%rsp),%rsi
  21:	00
  22:	4c 89 f2             	mov    %r14,%rdx
  25:	4c 8b 4c 24 50       	mov    0x50(%rsp),%r9
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	e9 8d 00 00 00       	jmp    0xc1
  34:	e8 88 6c 4d 00       	call   0x4d6cc1
  39:	4c 89 f8             	mov    %r15,%rax
  3c:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/05 02:45 linux-next af5f12805e5c 4f7b22a0 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: WARNING in __change_page_attr_set_clr
2026/09/04 21:56 linux-next af5f12805e5c 3f042c7b .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: WARNING in __change_page_attr_set_clr
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.