Re: WARNING: bad unlock balance in xfs_iunlock

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Wed May 09 2018 - 09:55:44 EST


>>> C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?id=5719304272084992
>>> syzkaller reproducer:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?id=5767783983874048
>>
>> What a mess. A hand built, hopelessly broken filesystem image made
>> up of hex dumps, written into a mmap()d region of memory, then
>> copied into a tmpfs file and mounted with the loop device.
>>
>> Engineers that can debug broken filesystems don't grow on trees. If
>> we are to have any hope of understanding what the hell this test is
>> doing, the bot needs to supply us with a copy of the built
>> filesystem image the test uses. We need to be able to point forensic
>> tools at the image to decode all the structures into human readable
>> format - if we are forced to do that by hand or jump through hoops
>> to create our own filesystem image than I'm certainly not going to
>> waste time looking at these reports...
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Here is the image:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzhGGe5SBJcqfsjxCLHoh4Kazke1oTfC/view

A suggestion --- insteading of forcing human beings --- either
overworked file system developers, or understaffed fuzzing tool teams,
to have to manually pull out the file system image out from the C
repro, if it's too hard to add a link where the file system iamge can
be downloaded from the Syzkaller web application --- how about adding
an option to the C repro template which causes it to dump the image to
a file and then immediately exit?

- Ted