Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/481] 6.1.167-rc1 review

[Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it>]

Hi Greg,

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 02:39:42PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.167 release.
> There are 481 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
> 
> Responses should be made by Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:33 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

Not ok

I have an ext4 Oops on arm

[   27.908560] 8<--- cut here ---
[   27.911697] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[   27.919880] [00000000] *pgd=00000000
[   27.923482] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
[   27.928117] Modules linked in: 8021q cfg80211 imx_sdma coda_vpu v4l2_jpeg imx_vdoa dw_hdmi_ahb_audio fuse
[   27.937784] CPU: 1 PID: 736 Comm: tar Not tainted 6.1.167-rc1-6.8.6-devel+git.67c872a868ac #1
[   27.946342] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Quad/DualLite (Device Tree)
[   27.952889] PC is at ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp+0xac/0x438
[   27.958083] LR is at 0xe0f39b18
[   27.961248] pc : [<c035bc54>]    lr : [<e0f39b18>]    psr: 000f0013
[   27.967536] sp : e0f39b60  ip : 00000000  fp : c43046f8
[   27.972781] r10: 00000001  r9 : 00000c40  r8 : 00000016
[   27.978025] r7 : 00000016  r6 : c2b24000  r5 : e0f39bcc  r4 : 00000000
[   27.984574] r3 : d21b9611  r2 : d21b9611  r1 : c4277e40  r0 : 00000000
[   27.991123] Flags: nzcv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
[   27.998287] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 131c804a  DAC: 00000051
[   28.004050] Register r0 information: NULL pointer
[   28.008787] Register r1 information: slab radix_tree_node start c4277e40 pointer offset 0
[   28.017024] Register r2 information: 0-page vmalloc region starting at 0xd0000000 allocated at iotable_init+0x0/0xf4
[   28.027619] Register r3 information: 0-page vmalloc region starting at 0xd0000000 allocated at iotable_init+0x0/0xf4
[   28.038199] Register r4 information: NULL pointer
[   28.042930] Register r5 information: 2-page vmalloc region starting at 0xe0f38000 allocated at kernel_clone+0x88/0x338
[   28.053693] Register r6 information: slab kmalloc-1k start c2b24000 pointer offset 0 size 1024
[   28.062369] Register r7 information: non-paged memory
[   28.067449] Register r8 information: non-paged memory
[   28.072527] Register r9 information: non-paged memory
[   28.077605] Register r10 information: non-paged memory
[   28.082771] Register r11 information: slab ext4_inode_cache start c4304620 pointer offset 216 size 60
[   28.092056] Register r12 information: NULL pointer
[   28.096875] Process tar (pid: 736, stack limit = 0x116a0825)
[   28.102562] Stack: (0xe0f39b60 to 0xe0f3a000)
[   28.106955] 9b60: e0f39b5c 00000000 c0c1b414 c2916000 c2b24000 c42e55d8 c2b24000 c29162a8
[   28.115162] 9b80: 00000048 c4589000 0000000b c035f804 00000001 00000001 00000001 c2b24000
[   28.123368] 9ba0: c2916000 0000001d 00000010 00000000 00000009 00000024 00000000 00000000
[   28.131573] 9bc0: c2b92300 00000001 00000000 00000000 e0f39d30 00000000 c2b92300 c42e55d8
[   28.139778] 9be0: c2b24000 0000000c 0000000b d21b9611 00000000 c4589000 c2b24000 e0f39d30
[   28.147983] 9c00: 00000001 c2916000 00000000 c42fbf60 00000001 c03628c0 00000001 00000000
[   28.156188] 9c20: e0f39d14 c2b92300 00000001 00000000 00000029 00000000 00000000 c03328b4
[   28.164393] 9c40: 00000000 00000000 c4886a60 c033be7c 00000000 c0294008 00000000 00000000
[   28.172597] 9c60: c48867d0 d21b9611 c2b92300 00000001 00000001 c2916000 00000000 00000000
[   28.180802] 9c80: 00000000 c48868a8 e0f39e10 c0336970 e0f39d24 47ffffff c2b24000 00000000
[   28.189007] 9ca0: c48868a8 00000000 e0f39d88 c0330844 00000000 00000001 c2b92300 c42fbf60
[   28.197212] 9cc0: e0f39d88 ffffffff 00000000 ffffffff c308da80 00000000 00000001 c308da98
[   28.205416] 9ce0: 00000000 c03362f4 ffffffff ffffffff 00000008 00000010 00000000 cf358340
[   28.213620] 9d00: c42fbf60 00000000 c0c1b2c8 00000000 c308da80 00000000 00000000 c4540001
[   28.221825] 9d20: 00000000 c0395154 c2b92300 000009dd c48868a8 00000001 00000000 00000000
[   28.230029] 9d40: 00000000 c034c0c0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   28.238234] 9d60: 00000000 00000000 c4886a60 d21b9611 00000020 e0f39e10 c48868a8 00000000
[   28.246438] 9d80: 00000001 c42fbf60 c2b92300 00001000 00000000 c034ccdc 00000000 00000000
[   28.254642] 9da0: 00000000 00000000 c42fbf60 c4886890 00000000 00000000 c48868a8 00000000
[   28.262847] 9dc0: c4886a60 00000000 ffffffff e0f39e70 ffffffff 47ffffff 00000000 d21b9611
[   28.271052] 9de0: c2b92300 c48868a8 c48868a8 c42fbf60 c2b92300 00000000 00000001 00001000
[   28.279256] 9e00: 00000000 c034dc98 c48868a8 c038d7f4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
[   28.287461] 9e20: 00000000 cf358300 00000000 d21b9611 c48868f0 c48868a8 00000000 c42fbf60
[   28.295666] 9e40: c2b92300 e0f39ec0 00000001 c034ded0 c48868a8 00000000 c42fbf60 c0367fec
[   28.303871] 9e60: 0000001d 000041ed 00000000 c42ffcd8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
[   28.312076] 9e80: 00000000 c48868a8 69c15bf6 d21b9611 119d9a05 c48868a8 c2b24000 00000000
[   28.320281] 9ea0: 00000000 c42fbf60 c2b92300 c036e134 00000000 c036b544 00000000 c43043e8
[   28.328486] 9ec0: 00000000 d21b9611 0000000c c48868a8 c48868a8 c42fbf60 c43043e8 c0c1bc80
[   28.336690] 9ee0: 000041ed c2b92300 c120d3e8 c036e410 c42ffcd8 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   28.344895] 9f00: 00000004 00000bfa 00000027 c02a9b20 00000000 00000027 c42ffcd8 c42ffcc0
[   28.353100] 9f20: 00000000 d21b9611 00000002 c43043e8 c036e298 c120d3e8 c42ffcc0 00000000
[   28.361305] 9f40: 00000002 c2b92300 be83b824 c02ab1a0 c34dc010 d21b9611 01db0478 c34dc000
[   28.369510] 9f60: c42ffcc0 c34dc000 ffffff9c 000041ed 00000000 c02b0268 be83b824 c20c6910
[   28.377715] 9f80: c42e2a18 d21b9611 01db0478 01db01f8 00000000 00000027 c01002e8 c2b92300
[   28.385920] 9fa0: 00000027 c0100080 01db0478 01db01f8 01db0478 000041ed 00000020 00004000
[   28.394124] 9fc0: 01db0478 01db01f8 00000000 00000027 00000000 00000007 01db01f8 be83b824
[   28.402330] 9fe0: 00545dbc be83b754 004f9b0b b6e5ff98 600f0030 01db0478 00000000 00000000
[   28.410535]  ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp from ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x318/0xee0
[   28.417826]  ext4_mb_regular_allocator from ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x724/0x1000
[   28.424847]  ext4_mb_new_blocks from ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x7d8/0x1600
[   28.431351]  ext4_ext_map_blocks from ext4_map_blocks+0x21c/0x604
[   28.437492]  ext4_map_blocks from ext4_getblk+0x68/0x298
[   28.442844]  ext4_getblk from ext4_bread+0x8/0xa0
[   28.447587]  ext4_bread from ext4_append+0x98/0x1b4
[   28.452514]  ext4_append from ext4_init_new_dir+0x7c/0x1e0
[   28.458061]  ext4_init_new_dir from ext4_mkdir+0x178/0x384
[   28.463608]  ext4_mkdir from vfs_mkdir+0xcc/0x168
[   28.468364]  vfs_mkdir from do_mkdirat+0x80/0x104
[   28.473107]  do_mkdirat from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54
[   28.478285] Exception stack(0xe0f39fa8 to 0xe0f39ff0)
[   28.483367] 9fa0:                   01db0478 01db01f8 01db0478 000041ed 00000020 00004000
[   28.491573] 9fc0: 01db0478 01db01f8 00000000 00000027 00000000 00000007 01db01f8 be83b824
[   28.499775] 9fe0: 00545dbc be83b754 004f9b0b b6e5ff98
[   28.504856] Code: ebfbad72 e3700a01 e1a04000 8a00005d (e5903000)
[   28.511102] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---


The bug is not systematic, and I do not see myself having the time to
bisect it in the next couple of days (it was reproduced by our CI / Lava
infrastructure).

I have added some of the ext4 folks to this thread, in case they know
how to help.

Francesco