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WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2024/05/28 15:21
Subsystems: ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+fe42a669c87e4a980051@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 464d, last: 3d08h
Cause bisection: the issue happens on the oldest tested release (bisect log)
Crash: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in ext4_xattr_set_entry (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
Discussions (5)
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[syzbot] Monthly ext4 report (Aug 2025) 0 (1) 2025/08/27 08:15
[syzbot] Monthly ext4 report (Jul 2025) 0 (1) 2025/07/27 10:41
[syzbot] Monthly ext4 report (Jun 2025) 0 (1) 2025/06/26 05:37
[PATCH] fs/dcache: fix warning in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create 3 (3) 2024/05/29 02:01
[syzbot] [ext4?] WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create 1 (3) 2024/05/29 00:53
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create origin:upstream -1 C 177 8d17h 84d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/08 17:41
linux-6.6 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create origin:upstream -1 C 18 12d 31d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/31 23:44
Last patch testing requests (11)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/05/14 22:07 26m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/04/24 04:08 20m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/03/28 04:23 25m retest repro upstream error
2025/03/05 08:36 20m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/02/09 01:33 23m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2025/01/16 01:11 17m retest repro upstream report log
2024/12/25 08:12 20m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2024/12/01 00:30 28m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2024/09/20 08:12 19m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci report log
2024/08/28 18:35 16m retest repro upstream report log
2024/05/29 00:14 23m eadavis@qq.com patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 8f6a15f095a6 OK log
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/04/09 11:06 5h09m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
process 'syz-executor392' launched '/dev/fd/4/./file1' with NULL argv: empty string added
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_xattr_inode_create:1469: refuse to create EA inode when umounting
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5857 at fs/ext4/xattr.c:1470 ext4_xattr_inode_create fs/ext4/xattr.c:1470 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5857 at fs/ext4/xattr.c:1470 ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create+0xa80/0x1c20 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1588
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5857 Comm: syz-executor392 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:ext4_xattr_inode_create fs/ext4/xattr.c:1470 [inline]
RIP: 0010:ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create+0xa80/0x1c20 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1588
Code: 8b 74 24 10 e9 d4 03 00 00 e8 5c b3 3a ff 48 89 df 48 c7 c6 c5 c9 97 8d ba bd 05 00 00 48 c7 c1 00 e3 9f 8b e8 21 28 fc ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 49 c7 c7 ea ff ff ff 4c 8b 74 24 10 e9 bb 03 00 00 48 8d
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002eb7240 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 57fc242ed4c84500 RBX: ffff8880330da000 RCX: 57fc242ed4c84500
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90002eb73d0 R08: ffffc90002eb6e27 R09: 1ffff920005d6dc4
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520005d6dc5 R12: 1ffff920005d6e5c
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8880605845b0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125c1b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f6cbf9d4938 CR3: 0000000031bdd000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ext4_xattr_block_set+0x223/0x2ac0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1908
 ext4_xattr_move_to_block fs/ext4/xattr.c:2659 [inline]
 ext4_xattr_make_inode_space fs/ext4/xattr.c:2734 [inline]
 ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x12d5/0x1ea0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2822
 __ext4_expand_extra_isize+0x30d/0x400 fs/ext4/inode.c:6385
 ext4_try_to_expand_extra_isize fs/ext4/inode.c:6428 [inline]
 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x46c/0x700 fs/ext4/inode.c:6506
 ext4_dirty_inode+0xd0/0x110 fs/ext4/inode.c:6538
 __mark_inode_dirty+0x2d1/0xdf0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2527
 mark_inode_dirty_sync include/linux/fs.h:2614 [inline]
 iput+0x1ee/0x9d0 fs/inode.c:1920
 __dentry_kill+0x209/0x660 fs/dcache.c:669
 shrink_kill+0xa9/0x2c0 fs/dcache.c:1114
 shrink_dentry_list+0x2e0/0x5e0 fs/dcache.c:1141
 shrink_dcache_parent+0xa1/0x2c0 fs/dcache.c:-1
 do_one_tree+0x23/0xe0 fs/dcache.c:1604
 shrink_dcache_for_umount+0xa0/0x170 fs/dcache.c:1621
 generic_shutdown_super+0x67/0x2c0 fs/super.c:621
 kill_block_super+0x44/0x90 fs/super.c:1766
 ext4_kill_sb+0x68/0xb0 fs/ext4/super.c:7391
 deactivate_locked_super+0xbc/0x130 fs/super.c:474
 cleanup_mnt+0x425/0x4c0 fs/namespace.c:1378
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x6b5/0x2300 kernel/exit.c:961
 do_group_exit+0x21c/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1102
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1113 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1111 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1111
 x64_sys_call+0x21f7/0x2200 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f6cbf989369
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f6cbf98933f.
RSP: 002b:00007ffd92780438 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 00007f6cbf989369
RDX: 000000000000003c RSI: 00000000000000e7 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 00007f6cbfa06390 R08: ffffffffffffffb8 R09: 0000555500000000
R10: 0000000000000381 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f6cbfa06390
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f6cbfa08160 R15: 00007f6cbf956b20
 </TASK>

Crashes (842):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/18 19:49 upstream c17b750b3ad9 1804e95e .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/18 18:47 upstream c17b750b3ad9 1804e95e .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/06/19 12:45 upstream fb4d33ab452e ed3e87f7 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/06/08 08:54 upstream 5b032cac6225 4826c28e .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2024/05/24 16:34 upstream 8f6a15f095a6 8f98448e .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/07/15 02:42 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ec4801305969 03fcfc4b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2024/12/11 07:21 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 146ff2c261f3 cfc402b4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2024/09/06 07:55 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci df54f4a16f82 464ac2ed .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/29 00:44 upstream 07d9df80082b 3e1beec6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/28 12:50 upstream 07d9df80082b 443c11c7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/27 13:54 upstream fab1beda7597 e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/27 10:58 upstream fab1beda7597 e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/27 09:05 upstream fab1beda7597 e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/26 01:45 upstream b6add54ba618 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/25 02:23 upstream c330cb607721 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/24 18:27 upstream c330cb607721 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/24 09:29 upstream 8d245acc1e88 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/23 20:30 upstream 8d245acc1e88 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/23 06:52 upstream 6debb6904172 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/23 06:52 upstream 6debb6904172 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/23 02:19 upstream a2e94e80790b bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/22 17:05 upstream a2e94e80790b bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/22 10:46 upstream 3957a5720157 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/22 01:37 upstream 3957a5720157 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/22 01:37 upstream 3957a5720157 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/21 16:27 upstream 32b7144f806e 0b9605c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/21 15:25 upstream 41cd3fd15263 0b9605c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/21 12:06 upstream 41cd3fd15263 0b9605c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/20 22:48 upstream 41cd3fd15263 bd178e57 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/20 12:25 upstream b19a97d57c15 bd178e57 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/20 07:39 upstream b19a97d57c15 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/19 19:42 upstream b19a97d57c15 523f460e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/19 18:42 upstream be48bcf004f9 523f460e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/19 18:35 upstream be48bcf004f9 523f460e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/19 18:27 upstream be48bcf004f9 523f460e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/19 18:17 upstream be48bcf004f9 523f460e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/17 11:52 upstream 99bade344cfa 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2024/05/24 15:17 upstream 8f6a15f095a6 8f98448e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/26 13:42 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/25 22:44 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/25 10:56 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/25 05:30 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/24 04:17 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/24 01:40 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/23 03:38 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/22 15:03 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/21 23:17 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/21 08:34 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 0b9605c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/21 00:47 linux-next 5303936d609e 0b9605c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/21 00:47 linux-next 5303936d609e 0b9605c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/20 11:21 linux-next 5303936d609e 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/20 06:22 linux-next 5303936d609e 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/20 06:22 linux-next 5303936d609e 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
2025/08/19 21:56 linux-next 886e5e7b0432 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.