general protection fault in lmWriteRecord

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/08/30 09:53
Subsystems: jfs
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+ba173472aba166849601@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d09h, last: 4d09h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
c42e8b1e assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ general protection fault in lmWriteRecord 2026/08/28 00:02 2026/08/28 00:02 2026/08/28 00:09 bd6de8ec
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 general protection fault in lmWriteRecord 2 1 590d 590d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/26 22:02
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in lmWriteRecord 19 1 21d 21d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/09 01:11
linux-6.1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in lmWriteRecord 19 2 246d 275d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/06 10:48
linux-5.15 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in lmWriteRecord origin:upstream 19 syz, C error 5 66d 227d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/15 07:37

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000007: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7107 Comm: syz.1.253 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:lmWriteRecord+0x71/0x1ad0 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:366
Code: 44 24 50 42 80 3c 38 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 57 d5 cb fe 48 89 5c 24 30 48 8b 03 48 89 44 24 40 48 8d 58 38 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 38 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 30 d5 cb fe 4c 89 b4 24 98 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b8d7600 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 0000000000000038 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc90012f47000 RSI: 000000000000039f RDI: 00000000000003a0
RBP: 0000000000000100 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f63b50 R12: ffffc9000b8d7888
R13: ffffc90003831640 R14: ffffc9000b8d7888 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007fed6dfa46c0(0000) GS:ffff888125cde000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b32123ffc CR3: 00000000331ae000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 lmLog+0x6dc/0xa10 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:312
 dtLog fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:1620 [inline]
 txLog fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:1402 [inline]
 txCommit+0x1c92/0x54a0 fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:1266
 add_missing_indices+0x7e5/0xb30 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:2671
 jfs_readdir+0x1d15/0x33f0 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:3028
 wrap_directory_iterator+0x99/0xe0 fs/readdir.c:67
 iterate_dir+0x2f1/0x4e0 fs/readdir.c:110
 __do_sys_getdents fs/readdir.c:319 [inline]
 __se_sys_getdents+0xf1/0x270 fs/readdir.c:304
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fed6fd8e0d9
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:00007fed6dfa4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fed70016180 RCX: 00007fed6fd8e0d9
RDX: 00000000000000b8 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fed6fe25024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fed70016218 R14: 00007fed70016180 R15: 00007ffe5c81f618
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:lmWriteRecord+0x71/0x1ad0 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:366
Code: 44 24 50 42 80 3c 38 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 57 d5 cb fe 48 89 5c 24 30 48 8b 03 48 89 44 24 40 48 8d 58 38 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 38 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 30 d5 cb fe 4c 89 b4 24 98 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b8d7600 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 0000000000000038 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc90012f47000 RSI: 000000000000039f RDI: 00000000000003a0
RBP: 0000000000000100 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f63b50 R12: ffffc9000b8d7888
R13: ffffc90003831640 R14: ffffc9000b8d7888 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007fed6dfa46c0(0000) GS:ffff888125cde000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b32123ffc CR3: 00000000331ae000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	44 24 50             	rex.R and $0x50,%al
   3:	42 80 3c 38 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r15,1)
   8:	74 08                	je     0x12
   a:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
   d:	e8 57 d5 cb fe       	call   0xfecbd569
  12:	48 89 5c 24 30       	mov    %rbx,0x30(%rsp)
  17:	48 8b 03             	mov    (%rbx),%rax
  1a:	48 89 44 24 40       	mov    %rax,0x40(%rsp)
  1f:	48 8d 58 38          	lea    0x38(%rax),%rbx
  23:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 38 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r15,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  34:	e8 30 d5 cb fe       	call   0xfecbd569
  39:	4c                   	rex.WR
  3a:	89                   	.byte 0x89
  3b:	b4 24                	mov    $0x24,%ah
  3d:	98                   	cwtl

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/26 09:49 upstream 45c13f3f9e3b 6a91adb4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in lmWriteRecord
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.