Hi, upon my investigation of a bug reported by syzbot with the following link. https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c7c4748e11ffcc367cef04f76e02e931833cbd24 By enabling event tracing running the c repro, touch_buffer(bh) would panic the kernel with handling NULL pointer dereference, it is because the buffer_header does not have a block device pointing to. The problem is that I do not know if this is a defined behaviour of buffer_header, I am inexperienced here. I would post the panic message down here. [ 155.995180][ T6861] loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048 [ 156.018325][ T6861] NILFS (loop0): broken superblock, retrying with spare superblock (blocksize = 1024) [ 156.089921][ T6861] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000024 [ 156.091476][ T6861] Mem abort info: [ 156.092114][ T6861] ESR = 0x0000000096000006 [ 156.096162][ T6861] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 156.100850][ T6861] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 156.104732][ T6861] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 156.108397][ T6861] FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault [ 156.113937][ T6861] Data abort info: [ 156.120935][ T6861] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006 [ 156.127581][ T6861] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ 156.134563][ T6861] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000011353c000 [ 156.141306][ T6861] [0000000000000024] pgd=080000010d35a003, p4d=080000010d35a003, pud=080000010ecfb003, pmd=0000000000000000 [ 156.149362][ T6861] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 156.155439][ T6861] Modules linked in: [ 156.160673][ T6861] CPU: 6 PID: 6861 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3- next-20221104 #38 [ 156.164042][ T6861] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 156.169001][ T6861] pstate: 00400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 156.174568][ T6861] pc : trace_event_raw_event_block_buffer+0x64/0xc0 [ 156.180880][ T6861] lr : trace_event_raw_event_block_buffer+0x54/0xc0 [ 156.184271][ T6861] sp : ffff80000fe73810 [ 156.187185][ T6861] x29: ffff80000fe73810 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 00000000000000c0 [ 156.191900][ T6861] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000 [ 156.197326][ T6861] x23: ffff0000cd36ce00 x22: ffff80000bd49000 x21: ffff80000bd49368 [ 156.202531][ T6861] x20: ffff0000c00c6580 x19: ffff0000cdf172a0 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 156.208112][ T6861] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000519 x15: 0000000000000001 [ 156.212665][ T6861] x14: 0000000000000002 x13: 00000000000278a7 x12: 0000000000100000 [ 156.217123][ T6861] x11: 0000000000100000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffff80000ce98000 [ 156.222096][ T6861] x8 : ffff80000fe73768 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000de4379f [ 156.227209][ T6861] x5 : 0000000000000020 x4 : 000000000024ba04 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 156.231371][ T6861] x2 : ffff0000d320ed9c x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff80000fe73838 [ 156.236095][ T6861] Call trace: [ 156.240201][ T6861] trace_event_raw_event_block_buffer+0x64/0xc0 [ 156.243814][ T6861] __traceiter_block_touch_buffer+0x38/0x54 [ 156.246562][ T6861] touch_buffer+0x128/0x1b0 [ 156.249087][ T6861] nilfs_grab_buffer+0xb8/0x200 [ 156.251763][ T6861] nilfs_mdt_submit_block+0x4c/0x470 [ 156.254103][ T6861] nilfs_mdt_read_block+0x44/0x154 [ 156.256216][ T6861] nilfs_mdt_get_block+0x58/0x520 [ 156.258450][ T6861] nilfs_sufile_read+0x104/0x220 [ 156.260480][ T6861] load_nilfs+0x25c/0x4e0 [ 156.262535][ T6861] nilfs_mount+0x3f0/0x624 [ 156.264678][ T6861] legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x60 [ 156.266801][ T6861] vfs_get_tree+0x28/0xf0 [ 156.270048][ T6861] path_mount+0x3dc/0xbb0 [ 156.273158][ T6861] __arm64_sys_mount+0x204/0x2dc [ 156.276088][ T6861] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 [ 156.279141][ T6861] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xfc/0x11c [ 156.282159][ T6861] do_el0_svc+0x2c/0xd0 [ 156.285177][ T6861] el0_svc+0x50/0x140 [ 156.288452][ T6861] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120 [ 156.291375][ T6861] el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 [ 156.294203][ T6861] Code: aa0003e2 b4000140 f9401a61 9100a3e0 (b9402421) [ 156.298191][ T6861] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 156.301621][ T6861] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception [ 156.304165][ T6861] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 156.306561][ T6861] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 156.308120][ T6861] CPU features: 0x00000,00070084,6601720b [ 156.309695][ T6861] Memory Limit: none [ 156.311323][ T6861] Rebooting in 86400 seconds.. Any help would be appreciated, Thank you!
