linux-next test error: general protection fault in __bh_submit

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/05 16:35
Subsystems: ext4
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+5a7a23af225c215902e7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d06h, last: 3d08h
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f0720dbe assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ✅ linux-next test error: general protection fault in __bh_submit 2026/09/03 01:32 2026/09/03 01:32 2026/09/03 02:25 9941e97d
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[syzbot] [ext4?] linux-next test error: general protection fault in __bh_submit 0 (1) 2026/09/05 16:35

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 4945 Comm: jbd2/sda1-8 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:const_folio_flags include/linux/page-flags.h:345 [inline]
RIP: 0010:folio_test_dropbehind include/linux/page-flags.h:600 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__bh_submit+0x22d/0x8d0 fs/buffer.c:1109
Code: c1 e8 03 48 89 44 24 18 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 26 f6 d7 ff 48 89 5c 24 28 48 8b 1b 4c 8d 7b 08 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 04 f6 d7 ff 4d 8b 3f 4c 89 fe 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9001016f868 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff84b96ff9
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff888075a7a660
RBP: 0000000000009801 R08: ffff888075a7a6bf R09: 1ffff1100eb4f4d7
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100eb4f4d8 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888075a7a640 R14: ffff8880123a17e0 R15: 0000000000000008
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124ccb000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe1ee627da0 CR3: 0000000074fa8000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x22a9/0x5cd0 fs/jbd2/commit.c:751
 kjournald2+0x3bc/0x750 fs/jbd2/journal.c:200
 kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:const_folio_flags include/linux/page-flags.h:345 [inline]
RIP: 0010:folio_test_dropbehind include/linux/page-flags.h:600 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__bh_submit+0x22d/0x8d0 fs/buffer.c:1109
Code: c1 e8 03 48 89 44 24 18 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 26 f6 d7 ff 48 89 5c 24 28 48 8b 1b 4c 8d 7b 08 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 04 f6 d7 ff 4d 8b 3f 4c 89 fe 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9001016f868 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff84b96ff9
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff888075a7a660
RBP: 0000000000009801 R08: ffff888075a7a6bf R09: 1ffff1100eb4f4d7
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100eb4f4d8 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888075a7a640 R14: ffff8880123a17e0 R15: 0000000000000008
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124dcb000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f87c696cf80 CR3: 000000000eb48000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	c1 e8 03             	shr    $0x3,%eax
   3:	48 89 44 24 18       	mov    %rax,0x18(%rsp)
   8:	42 80 3c 20 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r12,1)
   d:	74 08                	je     0x17
   f:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  12:	e8 26 f6 d7 ff       	call   0xffd7f63d
  17:	48 89 5c 24 28       	mov    %rbx,0x28(%rsp)
  1c:	48 8b 1b             	mov    (%rbx),%rbx
  1f:	4c 8d 7b 08          	lea    0x8(%rbx),%r15
  23:	4c 89 f8             	mov    %r15,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 20 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r12,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	4c 89 ff             	mov    %r15,%rdi
  34:	e8 04 f6 d7 ff       	call   0xffd7f63d
  39:	4d 8b 3f             	mov    (%r15),%r15
  3c:	4c 89 fe             	mov    %r15,%rsi
  3f:	48                   	rex.W

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/02 14:43 linux-next 32b6ef9a5d0e 85995287 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: general protection fault in __bh_submit
2026/09/01 16:29 linux-next 8b72f6626dc3 316d9396 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce linux-next test error: general protection fault in __bh_submit
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.