crashes,hangs and filesystem corruption while compiling with GCC

[JordanYates]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26100.2894]

WSL Version

2.4.10.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.167.4-1

Distro Version

Ubuntu 24.04

Other Software

arm-zephyr-eabi-gcc: (Zephyr SDK 0.16.8) 12.2.0

Repro Steps

Cross compiling embedded software, specifically Zephyr RTOS.

• Install Zephyr RTOS tooling: https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/develop/getting_started/index.html
• Run builds in a loop until problems appear

while [ 1 ]
do
    rm -rf build
    west build -b nrf52840dk/nrf52840 zephyr/samples/hello_world
done

Expected Behavior

Compiling should complete without problems.

Actual Behavior

Three different failure modes have been observed.

1. WSL instance crashes:

jordan@TAURUS:~/code/workspace$
[process exited with code 1 (0x00000001)]
You can now close this terminal with Ctrl+D, or press Enter to restart.

2. VHD disk becomes corrupted, is remounted as read-only

jordan@TAURUS:~/code/workspace$ touch test.txt
touch: cannot touch 'test.txt': Read-only file system

3. C compiler process hangs forever in a mmap syscall

jordan@TAURUS:~$ sudo cat /proc/23923/stack
[<0>] rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x1a4/0x4e0
[<0>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0xaa/0x180
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0xd6

Diagnostic Logs

Failure 1:
WslLogs-2025-02-08_11-15-54_Crash.zip
Failure 2:
WslLogs-2025-02-08_11-21-01_RO_FS.zip
Failure 3:
WslLogs-2025-02-08_11-30-53_Hang.zip

jordan@TAURUS:~$ sudo cat /proc/23923/status
Name:   cc1
Umask:  0022
State:  D (disk sleep)
Tgid:   23923
Ngid:   0
Pid:    23923
PPid:   23919
TracerPid:      0
Uid:    1000    1000    1000    1000
Gid:    1000    1000    1000    1000
FDSize: 64
Groups: 4 20 24 25 27 29 30 44 46 100 107 1000
NStgid: 23923
NSpid:  23923
NSpgid: 23916
NSsid:  279
VmPeak:    84088 kB
VmSize:    84088 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmPin:         0 kB
VmHWM:     67436 kB
VmRSS:     67436 kB
RssAnon:           48944 kB
RssFile:           18492 kB
RssShmem:              0 kB
VmData:    51980 kB
VmStk:       144 kB
VmExe:     28692 kB
VmLib:      2260 kB
VmPTE:       188 kB
VmSwap:        0 kB
HugetlbPages:          0 kB
CoreDumping:    0
THP_enabled:    1
Threads:        1
SigQ:   5/127895
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
ShdPnd: 0000000000000000
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000001000
SigCgt: 00000000000004e8
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000
CapBnd: 000001ffffffffff
CapAmb: 0000000000000000
NoNewPrivs:     0
Seccomp:        0
Seccomp_filters:        0
Speculation_Store_Bypass:       thread vulnerable
SpeculationIndirectBranch:      conditional enabled
Cpus_allowed:   fffffff
Cpus_allowed_list:      0-27
Mems_allowed:   1
Mems_allowed_list:      0
voluntary_ctxt_switches:        1
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:     26

Attempting to run ps in this state also fails, as attempts to read a subset of files in /proc/N/ also blocks forever:

jordan@TAURUS:~$ sudo strace cat /proc/23923/cmdline
...
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/23923/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fadvise64(3, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL) = 0
mmap(NULL, 139264, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fe081bc7000
read(3, ^C^C^C^C^C

[github-actions]

No logs.etl found in the archive. Make sure that you ran collect-wsl-logs.ps1 as administrator and that the logs.etl file is in the archive.

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• WSL crashes when building application (#12238), similarity score: 0.72
• gcc build and tar cfv gcc-10.1.0.tar gcc-10.1.0 crashes WSL2 - just build and compression of directory? (#5532), similarity score: 0.70

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Diagnostic information

Multiple log files found, using: https://github.com/user-attachments/files/18716297/WslLogs-2025-02-08_11-15-54_Crash.zip
.wslconfig found
Detected appx version: 2.4.10.0
No logs.etl found in archive.
Error while parsing the logs. See action page for details

[JordanYates]

No logs.etl found in the archive. Make sure that you ran collect-wsl-logs.ps1 as administrator and that the logs.etl file is in the archive.

It looks like the log collection process did not complete properly in the case of the full VM crash. The other two log archives do contain the logs.etl file.

[JordanYates]

Based on the linked "similar issues" I have updated my BIOS (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K) and will see if that resolves the issue.

[OneBlue]

Thank you @JordanYates. Let us know if this reproduces again after the bios update.