Source: linux Version: 6.18~rc6-1~exp1 Severity: serious Justification: breaks other package's autopkgtest
With kernel 6.18 from experimental mksquashfs segfaults roughly 1 in 4 invocations. This does not happen with the kernel in unstable/testing, so it looks like a kernel regression. Filing at serious as it breaks systemd's autopkgtest: https://ci.debian.net/packages/s/systemd/unstable/amd64/66358275/#S67 Trivial to reproduce: mkdir -p bar while mksquashfs bar bar.raw -noappend &>/dev/null; do true; done Decoded backtrace is strange, it looks like a pointer is corrupted. Different invocations result in slightly different crashes, although all seem to be in the xattr code handling, so that looks like a strong hint as to where things might have regressed. https://sources.debian.org/src/squashfs-tools/1%3A4.7.4-1/squashfs-tools/xattr.c#L631 #0 0x000055e3c9fddcd9 in read_xattrs (d=d@entry=0x55e3d1388be0, type=type@entry=1) at ./squashfs-tools/xattr.c:631 entry = 0x40e33 dir_ent = <optimized out> inode = <optimized out> filename = 0x7ffeb945bdbb "bar" xattr_list = 0x0 head = 0x0 count = 0 i = <optimized out> j = <optimized out> l1 = <error reading variable l1 (Cannot access memory at address 0x40e4b)> l2 = <optimized out> l3 = <optimized out> action_add_list = 0x0 __func__ = "read_xattrs" #1 0x000055e3c9fb571f in create_inode (dir_info=dir_info@entry=0x55e3d1388b70, dir_ent=0x55e3d1388be0, type=type@entry=1, byte_size=byte_size@entry=3, start_block=start_block@entry=0, offset=offset@entry=0, block_list=0x0, fragment=0x0, dir_in=0x7ffeb9459840, sparse=0) at ./squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c:1112 buf = 0x55e3d1388c30 inode_header = {base = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632}, dev = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, nlink = 0, rdev = 0}, ldev = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, nlink = 0, rdev = 0, xattr = 24080}, symlink = { inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, nlink = 0, symlink_size = 0, symlink = 0x7ffeb9459748 "\020^"}, reg = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, start_block = 0, fragment = 0, offset = 24080, file_size = 0, block_list = 0x7ffeb9459750}, lreg = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, start_block = 0, file_size = 24080, sparse = 0, nlink = 0, fragment = 0, offset = 0, xattr = 0, block_list = 0x7ffeb9459768}, dir = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, start_block = 0, nlink = 0, file_size = 24080, offset = 0, parent_inode = 0}, ldir = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, nlink = 0, file_size = 0, start_block = 24080, parent_inode = 0, i_count = 0, offset = 0, xattr = 0, index = 0x7ffeb9459758}, ipc = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, nlink = 0}, lipc = {inode_type = 0, mode = 0, uid = 0, guid = 0, mtime = 3599334970, inode_number = 32632, nlink = 0, xattr = 0}} base = 0x7ffeb9459730 inode = <optimized out> filename = 0x7ffeb945bdbb "bar" nlink = 1 xattr = <optimized out> uid = <optimized out> gid = <optimized out> mode = <optimized out> #2 0x000055e3c9fb68a0 in write_dir (dir_info=<optimized out>, dir=0x7ffeb9459840) at ./squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c:1522 dir_size = <optimized out> data_space = <optimized out> directory_block = <optimized out> directory_offset = <optimized out> i_count = 0 index = 16384 c_byte = <optimized out> cache = <optimized out> __func__ = "write_dir" #3 dir_scan8 (inode=<optimized out>, dir_info=<optimized out>) at ./squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c:4647 squashfs_type = <optimized out> dir = <optimized out> dir_ent = <optimized out> file = <optimized out> #4 0x000055e3c9fbaa85 in do_directory_scans (dir_ent=dir_ent@entry=0x55e3d1388be0, progress=progress@entry=1) at ./squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c:3620 inode = 208 pseudo = <optimized out> #5 0x000055e3c9fbc041 in scan_single (pathname=0x7ffeb945bdbb "bar", progress=progress@entry=1) at ./squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c:3675 buf = {st_dev = 32, st_ino = 21, st_nlink = 2, st_mode = 16877, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, __pad0 = 0, st_rdev = 0, st_size = 40, st_blksize = 4096, st_blocks = 0, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1763563405, tv_nsec = 364000000}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1763562938, tv_nsec = 96000000}, st_ctim = { tv_sec = 1763562938, tv_nsec = 96000000}, __glibc_reserved = {0, 0, 0}} dir_ent = 0x55e3d1388be0 #6 0x000055e3c9fac6b7 in dir_scan (directory=<optimized out>, progress=1) at ./squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c:3735 single = <optimized out> #7 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ./squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c:8769 buf = {st_dev = 32, st_ino = 22, st_nlink = 1, st_mode = 33188, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, __pad0 = 0, st_rdev = 0, st_size = 4096, st_blksize = 4096, st_blocks = 8, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1763562951, tv_nsec = 448000000}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1763563405, tv_nsec = 360000000}, st_ctim = { tv_sec = 1763563405, tv_nsec = 360000000}, __glibc_reserved = {0, 0, 0}} source_buf = {st_dev = 32, st_ino = 21, st_nlink = 2, st_mode = 16877, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, __pad0 = 0, st_rdev = 0, st_size = 40, st_blksize = 4096, st_blocks = 0, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1763563405, tv_nsec = 360000000}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1763562938, tv_nsec = 96000000}, st_ctim = { tv_sec = 1763562938, tv_nsec = 96000000}, __glibc_reserved = {0, 0, 0}} res = 0 i = <optimized out> j = <optimized out> root_name = <optimized out> inode = <optimized out> readq = 496 fragq = 498 bwriteq = 496 fwriteq = <optimized out> total_mem = <optimized out> progress = 1 force_progress = <optimized out> percentage = <optimized out> exclude_option = 0 Xhelp = <optimized out> fragment = 0x0 command = <optimized out> single_threaded = <optimized out> overcommit = 0 repro_opt = <optimized out> repro_time_opt = <optimized out> repro_time = 4 __func__ = "main" (gdb) p l1 Cannot access memory at address 0x40e4b (gdb) p xattr_add_list $1 = (struct xattr_add *) 0x0 https://sources.debian.org/src/squashfs-tools/1%3A4.7.4-1/squashfs-tools/xattr.c#L534 #0 0x000055a5314fb9e0 in sort_list (head=head@entry=0x55a531fcfa50 <xattr_add_list>, count=54720) at ./squashfs-tools/xattr.c:534 cur = <optimized out> l1 = <optimized out> l2 = 0x83500e000000005d next = <optimized out> len1 = 0 len2 = <optimized out> stride = 1 #1 0x000055a5314fda75 in sort_list (head=0x55a531fcfa50 <xattr_add_list>, count=<optimized out>) at ./squashfs-tools/xattr.c:534 cur = <optimized out> l1 = <optimized out> l2 = <optimized out> next = <optimized out> len1 = <optimized out> len2 = <optimized out> stride = 1 #2 0x000055a5314ca2cf in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x7fff771b2b58) at ./squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c:8381 buf = {st_dev = 60405, st_ino = 4096, st_nlink = 8192, st_mode = 5, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 61440, __pad0 = 0, st_rdev = 69632, st_size = 67156, st_blksize = 67156, st_blocks = 4096, st_atim = {tv_sec = 61440, tv_nsec = 1}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 69632, tv_nsec = 77824}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 73736, tv_nsec = 73856}, __glibc_reserved = {4096, 65536, 3}} source_buf = {st_dev = 4, st_ino = 17179869188, st_nlink = 1975252, st_mode = 1975252, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 1975252, __pad0 = 0, st_rdev = 32, st_size = 32, st_blksize = 4, st_blocks = 17179869191, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1977176, tv_nsec = 1981272}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1981272, tv_nsec = 16}, st_ctim = { tv_sec = 136, tv_nsec = 8}, __glibc_reserved = {18865251667, 904, 904}} res = 0 i = 4 j = <optimized out> root_name = <optimized out> inode = <optimized out> readq = 496 fragq = 498 bwriteq = 496 fwriteq = <optimized out> total_mem = <optimized out> progress = 1 force_progress = <optimized out> percentage = <optimized out> exclude_option = 0 Xhelp = <optimized out> fragment = 0x0 command = <optimized out> single_threaded = <optimized out> overcommit = 0 repro_opt = <optimized out> repro_time_opt = <optimized out> repro_time = 4 __func__ = "main"

