kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/01 21:09
Subsystems: jfs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+4c8d1f29732a21567e4e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 228d, last: 4h08m
▶ ▼ ✨ AI Jobs (4)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
a9107aa7 repro-c 💥 kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal (3) 2026/10/09 09:03 2026/10/09 09:03 2026/10/09 11:03 b2734a59
a8fbcbbd repro-c 💥 kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal (3) 2026/10/07 02:52 2026/10/07 02:52 2026/10/07 04:39 f7710056
0f538560 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ✅ ❓ kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal (3) 2026/05/31 12:35 2026/05/31 12:35 2026/05/31 13:17 6b4a8443
6550b220 assessment-security 💥 kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal (3) 2026/05/14 16:40 2026/05/14 16:40 2026/05/14 16:42 6ccb967e
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[syzbot] [jfs?] kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal (3) 0 (1) 2026/03/01 21:09
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal -1 1 907d 907d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/07/26 08:47
upstream kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal (2) jfs -1 15 356d 859d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/29 01:09
upstream kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal jfs -1 2 1304d 1300d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/16 07:52

Sample crash report:
BUG at fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1585 assert(list_empty(&log->cqueue))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1585!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7380 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:jfs_flush_journal+0xf2b/0xf50 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1585
Code: e9 9e f5 ff ff e8 95 48 5d fe 48 c7 c7 00 8e ad 8b 48 c7 c6 00 89 ad 8b ba 31 06 00 00 48 c7 c1 40 8e ad 8b e8 e6 d6 bd fd 90 <0f> 0b e8 6e 48 5d fe bf 02 00 00 00 e8 d4 3c 2b fe e9 a9 f7 ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005a2fb20 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000040 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 01812b4c80d4af00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90005a2fc60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000b45f15 R12: 00000000000000c7
R13: ffff888062f4ba18 R14: ffff888062f4b800 R15: ffff888062f4bad8
FS:  000055556a0d4500(0000) GS:ffff888124abb000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055dd0fbad950 CR3: 0000000043924000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 jfs_umount+0x150/0x3b0 fs/jfs/jfs_umount.c:59
 jfs_put_super+0x8c/0x190 fs/jfs/super.c:194
 generic_shutdown_super+0x13d/0x2d0 fs/super.c:751
 kill_block_super+0x44/0xa0 fs/super.c:1903
 deactivate_locked_super+0xbe/0x110 fs/super.c:586
 cleanup_mnt+0x204/0x2a0 fs/namespace.c:1392
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:70 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x204/0x770 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:343 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x328/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f99a423f417
Code: a2 c7 05 dc 62 25 00 00 00 00 00 eb 96 e8 e1 12 00 00 90 31 f6 e9 09 00 00 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 b8 a6 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 c7 c2 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8
RSP: 002b:00007ffce7285288 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f99a42d4ccb RCX: 00007f99a423f417
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 00007ffce7285340
RBP: 00007ffce7285340 R08: 00007ffce7286340 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffce72863d0
R13: 00007f99a42d4ccb R14: 00000000000516be R15: 00007ffce7286410
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:jfs_flush_journal+0xf2b/0xf50 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1585
Code: e9 9e f5 ff ff e8 95 48 5d fe 48 c7 c7 00 8e ad 8b 48 c7 c6 00 89 ad 8b ba 31 06 00 00 48 c7 c1 40 8e ad 8b e8 e6 d6 bd fd 90 <0f> 0b e8 6e 48 5d fe bf 02 00 00 00 e8 d4 3c 2b fe e9 a9 f7 ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005a2fb20 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000040 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 01812b4c80d4af00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90005a2fc60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000b45f15 R12: 00000000000000c7
R13: ffff888062f4ba18 R14: ffff888062f4b800 R15: ffff888062f4bad8
FS:  000055556a0d4500(0000) GS:ffff888124abb000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe7a249dc00 CR3: 0000000043924000 CR4: 00000000003526f0

Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/12 04:20 upstream b88c841d1164 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal
2026/10/06 02:55 upstream 67f0943b394d f7710056 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal
2026/06/15 09:08 upstream 8cd9520d35a6 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal
2026/05/27 13:21 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 8777bdc3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal
2026/05/01 15:50 upstream 26fd6bff2c05 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal
2026/03/02 18:57 upstream 11439c4635ed b9dd6534 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal
2026/02/25 21:01 upstream d9d32e5bd5a4 94a9671e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal
2026/07/07 11:42 linux-next 8e9685d3c41c 8e71ce95 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root kernel BUG in jfs_flush_journal
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.