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WARNING in vfs_setxattr

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/07/16 17:24
Reported-by: syzbot+5afcaf8dfb7b1bb9aaa0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 197d, last: 7d06h
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in vfs_setxattr -1 12 242d 521d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/09 22:45
upstream WARNING in vfs_setxattr fs -1 1 1119d 1115d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/06 11:38
linux-6.1 WARNING in vfs_setxattr -1 132 3d02h 657d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/04/12 18:51
upstream WARNING in vfs_setxattr (2) fs -1 1 959d 955d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/13 15:16
linux-5.15 WARNING in vfs_setxattr (2) -1 4 8d07h 101d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/10/20 19:54
upstream WARNING in vfs_setxattr (3) gfs2 -1 C 612 2d09h 167d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/15 12:51

Sample crash report:
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DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON((rwsem_owner(sem) != current) && !rwsem_test_oflags(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE)): count = 0x0, magic = 0xffff8880586d9518, owner = 0x0, curr 0xffff888023e01e00, list empty
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7819 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1370 __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1369 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7819 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1370 up_write+0x393/0x410 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1626
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 7819 Comm: syz.4.597 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:__up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1369 [inline]
RIP: 0010:up_write+0x393/0x410 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1626
Code: 44 d0 48 c7 c7 a0 bc ca 8a 48 c7 c6 e0 be ca 8a 48 8b 14 24 4c 89 f1 4d 89 e0 4c 8b 4c 24 08 41 52 e8 71 43 e9 ff 48 83 c4 08 <0f> 0b e9 7d fd ff ff 48 c7 c1 b0 0e 8b 8e 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004317b90 EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: 1e9d7913ca563400 RBX: ffff8880586d9518 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000dbc3000 RSI: 000000000000dfca RDI: 000000000000dfcb
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffc90004317787 R09: 1ffff92000862ef0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000862ef1 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff8880586d9570 R14: ffff8880586d9518 R15: 1ffff1100b0db2a4
FS:  00007f6a7a2f76c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000001000 CR3: 0000000059162000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:809 [inline]
 vfs_setxattr+0x17a/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:324
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:630 [inline]
 path_setxattr+0x3f3/0x5d0 fs/xattr.c:659
 __do_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:677 [inline]
 __se_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:673 [inline]
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0xbb/0xd0 fs/xattr.c:673
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f6a7939acb9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f6a7a2f7028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000bc
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6a79616090 RCX: 00007f6a7939acb9
RDX: 0000200000000100 RSI: 00002000000002c0 RDI: 0000200000000280
RBP: 00007f6a79408bf7 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000001001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6a79616128 R14: 00007f6a79616090 R15: 00007ffe87185e18
 </TASK>

Crashes (14):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/22 20:49 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 82c9c083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/19 12:39 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 a9fc5226 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/17 00:25 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2026/01/08 19:18 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/31 19:51 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/31 15:54 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/19 00:21 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/12/07 22:30 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/10/10 02:50 linux-6.6.y e617101e5626 ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/10/06 12:59 linux-6.6.y e617101e5626 91305dbe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/10/01 13:13 linux-6.6.y 147338df3487 a1859138 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/09/26 21:40 linux-6.6.y 147338df3487 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/09/23 19:49 linux-6.6.y af1544b5d072 e667a34f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
2025/07/16 17:23 linux-6.6.y 9247f4e6573a 124ec9cc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in vfs_setxattr
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.