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kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/16 18:04
Bug presence: origin:upstream
Labels: missing-backport
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Reported-by: syzbot+905e5e4c2be48752878c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 264d, last: 2h14m
Fix commit to backport (bisect log) :
tree: upstream
commit 42b0ef01e6b5e9c77b383d32c25a0ec2a735d08a
Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Fri Jul 11 08:46:51 2025 +0000

  block: fix FS_IOC_GETLBMD_CAP parsing in blkdev_common_ioctl()

  
Bug presence (3)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/08/03 linux-6.6.y (ToT) 3a8ababb8b6a C [report] kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2025/06/19 upstream (ToT) fb4d33ab452e C [report] kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2025/08/03 upstream (ToT) 186f3edfdd41 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode origin:upstream missing-backport -1 C inconclusive 20177 2h38m 1068d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/04/04 07:01
linux-4.14 kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode hfs -1 C 3 1098d 1190d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/12/02 20:03
linux-4.19 kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode hfs -1 C 24 1096d 1197d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/11/26 01:52
linux-5.15 kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode origin:upstream -1 C error 16318 5h48m 1062d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/04/10 13:50
upstream kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode hfs -1 C error 181318 42m 1198d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/11/25 09:45
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/12/31 11:28 7h34m fix candidate upstream OK (1) job log

Sample crash report:
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kernel BUG at fs/hfs/inode.c:449!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 1132 Comm: kworker/u4:7 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
RIP: 0010:hfs_write_inode+0x87a/0x880 fs/hfs/inode.c:449
Code: c7 c1 00 b3 30 97 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 73 fe ff ff 48 c7 c7 00 b3 30 97 e8 f0 0c 84 ff e9 62 fe ff ff e8 16 de 2b ff <0f> 0b 0f 1f 40 00 f3 0f 1e fa 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 48 89 fb 49
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000482f340 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff825b3e4a RBX: ffff88801faa8ea8 RCX: ffff888024203c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8d339960 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000482f4d0 R08: ffff888024203c00 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff92000905e6c R14: ffff88801faa8e58 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f237f876000 CR3: 0000000030bac000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1483 [inline]
 __writeback_single_inode+0x705/0xec0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1700
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x7cd/0xf50 fs/fs-writeback.c:1926
 wb_writeback+0x46a/0xbf0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2105
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2252 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0x400/0xe60 fs/fs-writeback.c:2292
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:hfs_write_inode+0x87a/0x880 fs/hfs/inode.c:449
Code: c7 c1 00 b3 30 97 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 73 fe ff ff 48 c7 c7 00 b3 30 97 e8 f0 0c 84 ff e9 62 fe ff ff e8 16 de 2b ff <0f> 0b 0f 1f 40 00 f3 0f 1e fa 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 48 89 fb 49
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000482f340 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff825b3e4a RBX: ffff88801faa8ea8 RCX: ffff888024203c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8d339960 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000482f4d0 R08: ffff888024203c00 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff92000905e6c R14: ffff88801faa8e58 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f237f875000 CR3: 000000002f522000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

Crashes (6653):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/07 12:28 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 5cb44a80 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2025/11/27 07:12 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2025/09/26 09:13 linux-6.6.y 147338df3487 0abd0691 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2025/06/17 18:56 linux-6.6.y c2603c511feb cfebc887 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/07 17:03 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/07 09:20 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/07 02:45 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/07 01:03 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 23:54 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 23:40 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 23:28 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 23:14 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 23:01 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 22:49 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 22:46 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 17:12 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 14:14 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 14:14 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 12:52 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 09:34 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 31e9c887 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 07:15 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 31e9c887 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 02:04 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 31e9c887 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 02:04 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 31e9c887 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 00:47 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 31e9c887 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/06 00:44 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 31e9c887 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 18:18 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 17:16 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 16:48 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 16:48 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 14:31 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 12:54 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 12:33 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 04:35 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b a9fe5c9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 01:59 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b a9fe5c9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 00:52 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b a9fe5c9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/05 00:26 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b a9fe5c9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/04 17:57 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b e6b6b96b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/04 15:40 linux-6.6.y 682d8e2f892b e6b6b96b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/04 13:59 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e e6b6b96b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/04 12:53 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e e6b6b96b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/04 12:29 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e e6b6b96b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/04 03:42 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 4180d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/04 01:06 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 4180d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/03 16:00 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 4180d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/03 14:47 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 4180d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/03 14:03 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 4180d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2026/03/03 03:27 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 28b83e23 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
2025/06/16 18:04 linux-6.6.y c2603c511feb d1716036 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan kernel BUG in hfs_write_inode
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.