From: Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz <rafad900@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: [syzbot] [jfs?] [fat?] general protection fault in txEnd
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:20:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <acc65wb_JOQJtuK-@tradnomic.core> (raw)
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#syz test
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From b530db0e1844ca2b8fecf527dd5d5457e329adf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rafad900 <19312533+rafad900@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:58:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] jfs: prevent null log deference from superblock during read
only mode
Its not possible to use jfs_create() while the file system is in read
only mode. However, there is not a way for jfs_create() to handle this case
when txBegin fails. So jfs_create() continues to with the changes to the
filesystem and tries to txCommit() them, but when trying to write the changes
to the ->log of the superblock, we reach an error telling us that system
cannot write and enters panic.
Signed-off-by: rafad900 <19312533+rafad900@users.noreply.github.com>
---
fs/jfs/namei.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/jfs/namei.c b/fs/jfs/namei.c
index 60c4a0e0fca5..25b303276b82 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/namei.c
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ static int jfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dip,
}
tid = txBegin(dip->i_sb, 0);
+ if (tid == 0) {
+ jfs_err("jfs_create: unable to create tblk due to read only filesystem");
+ return -EROFS;
+ }
mutex_lock_nested(&JFS_IP(dip)->commit_mutex, COMMIT_MUTEX_PARENT);
mutex_lock_nested(&JFS_IP(ip)->commit_mutex, COMMIT_MUTEX_CHILD);
--
2.43.0
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2026-03-28 2:20 Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz [this message]
2026-03-29 11:07 ` [syzbot] [jfs] general protection fault in txEnd syzbot
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2026-03-30 23:32 [syzbot] [jfs?] [fat?] " Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz
2026-03-30 21:15 Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz
2022-12-23 23:37 syzbot
2023-03-30 10:03 ` Aleksandr Nogikh
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