kernel BUG in compress_file_range

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/01 00:25
Subsystems: btrfs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+db04810ad3d91a0a4697@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d18h, last: 6d18h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
70795da6 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ kernel BUG in compress_file_range 2026/07/29 01:57 2026/07/29 01:57 2026/07/29 02:39 7be3c40b

			
		
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[syzbot] [btrfs?] kernel BUG in compress_file_range 1 (2) 2026/08/01 05:31

Sample crash report:
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kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/inode.c:977!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 752 Comm: kworker/u8:6 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper
RIP: 0010:compress_file_range+0x1e27/0x2430 fs/btrfs/inode.c:977
Code: af 0c 01 e8 db 39 8a fd e9 55 fd ff ff e8 51 fc ae fd 48 c7 c6 20 1d 28 8c 48 89 df e8 a2 ab ff fd 90 0f 0b e8 3a fc ae fd 90 <0f> 0b e8 32 fc ae fd 48 8b 54 24 78 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000454fac0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: ffffffff845b3929
RDX: ffff8880272e9f00 RSI: ffffffff845b42e6 RDI: ffff8880272e9f00
RBP: 00000000fffffff4 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000fffffff4 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000001ffff
R13: 0000000000000fea R14: ffff888068d78000 R15: 0000000000000016
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888123ede000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c3ea6fb CR3: 000000001cbb3000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 btrfs_work_helper+0x214/0xc70 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:312
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3322
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3405 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 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:compress_file_range+0x1e27/0x2430 fs/btrfs/inode.c:977
Code: af 0c 01 e8 db 39 8a fd e9 55 fd ff ff e8 51 fc ae fd 48 c7 c6 20 1d 28 8c 48 89 df e8 a2 ab ff fd 90 0f 0b e8 3a fc ae fd 90 <0f> 0b e8 32 fc ae fd 48 8b 54 24 78 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000454fac0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: ffffffff845b3929
RDX: ffff8880272e9f00 RSI: ffffffff845b42e6 RDI: ffff8880272e9f00
RBP: 00000000fffffff4 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000fffffff4 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000001ffff
R13: 0000000000000fea R14: ffff888068d78000 R15: 0000000000000016
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888123dde000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f16bf558fb0 CR3: 000000007c548000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/27 19:51 upstream f5098b6bae76 4cb2b096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root kernel BUG in compress_file_range
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.