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WARNING in vfs_removexattr (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/30 13:48
Reported-by: syzbot+3e7b6c43d0cfcc861658@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 13d, last: 13d
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in vfs_removexattr (2) -1 1 143d 143d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/31 13:54
linux-5.15 WARNING in vfs_removexattr -1 1 516d 516d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/24 01:07
linux-6.1 WARNING in vfs_removexattr -1 7 411d 437d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/06 14:45
linux-6.1 WARNING in vfs_removexattr (2) -1 3 244d 273d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/22 15:47
upstream WARNING in vfs_removexattr (2) fs -1 2 398d 420d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/09 17:38
linux-6.6 WARNING in vfs_removexattr -1 1 46d 46d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/08/29 00:25
upstream WARNING in vfs_removexattr fs -1 2 538d 538d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/07/22 12:52

Sample crash report:
DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON((rwsem_owner(sem) != current) && !rwsem_test_oflags(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE)): count = 0x0, magic = 0xffff00011f411bc0, owner = 0x0, curr 0xffff0000d6700000, list empty
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5247 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1372 __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1371 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5247 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1372 up_write+0x494/0x5c0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1626
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 5247 Comm: syz.3.180 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/30/2025
pstate: 62400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1371 [inline]
pc : up_write+0x494/0x5c0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1626
lr : __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1371 [inline]
lr : up_write+0x494/0x5c0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1626
sp : ffff800021997a80
x29: ffff800021997a90 x28: ffff0000d6700000 x27: ffff800021997b40
x26: dfff800000000000 x25: 1fffe00023e82385 x24: ffff00011f411c18
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000d6700000
x20: ffff00011f411bc0 x19: ffff00011f411bc0 x18: ffff800011abbcc0
x17: 1fffe00033edbb7e x16: ffff8000082d22e0 x15: ffff8000150bd000
x14: 0000000000000100 x13: 1ffff00002a180b1 x12: 0000000000000001
x11: 1fffe0001b578490 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : db4089eb38b4a200
x8 : db4089eb38b4a200 x7 : ffff800008251e10 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000080 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : ffff800008240d6c
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000000000004 x0 : 0000000000000001
Call trace:
 __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1371 [inline]
 up_write+0x494/0x5c0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1626
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:763 [inline]
 vfs_removexattr+0x8c/0x190 fs/xattr.c:538
 removexattr fs/xattr.c:878 [inline]
 path_removexattr+0x188/0x31c fs/xattr.c:892
 __do_sys_removexattr fs/xattr.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_removexattr fs/xattr.c:903 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_removexattr+0x60/0x78 fs/xattr.c:903
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2bc arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
 el0_svc_common+0x138/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 do_el0_svc+0x58/0x13c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:204
 el0_svc+0x58/0x138 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655
 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:585
irq event stamp: 151078
hardirqs last  enabled at (151077): [<ffff800008251ea4>] raw_spin_rq_unlock_irq kernel/sched/sched.h:1367 [inline]
hardirqs last  enabled at (151077): [<ffff800008251ea4>] finish_lock_switch+0xb0/0x1c4 kernel/sched/core.c:5003
hardirqs last disabled at (151078): [<ffff8000119594a8>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:405
softirqs last  enabled at (151018): [<ffff80000803092c>] local_bh_enable+0x10/0x34 include/linux/bottom_half.h:32
softirqs last disabled at (151016): [<ffff8000080308f8>] local_bh_disable+0x10/0x34 include/linux/bottom_half.h:19
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/30 13:47 linux-6.1.y 7b34dc04e4ff 86341da6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 WARNING in vfs_removexattr
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.