Re: [PATCH] xfs: take hm->lock in xfs_ioc_health_monitor() before insert

From: Christoph Hellwig

Date: Thu Sep 10 2026 - 01:09:53 EST


On Sun, Sep 06, 2026 at 09:51:50PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2026 at 08:16:29PM +0530, Deepanshu Kartikey wrote:
> > __xfs_healthmon_insert() asserts that hm->lock is held
> > (lockdep_assert_held), but xfs_ioc_health_monitor() called it right
> > after allocating hm, before ever taking the lock, triggering a
> > lockdep warning.
> >
> > Take hm->lock around the call.
> >
> > Fixes: b3a289a2a9397 ("xfs: create event queuing, formatting, and discovery infrastructure")
> > Reported-by: syzbot+ccdf3469f5f653bff7ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ccdf3469f5f653bff7ac
> > Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Heh, I added a patch just like this one to my own tree.
> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Can we get this queued up ASAP? It's also causing a lot of failures in
our zoned XFS CI.