kernel panic: System is deadlocked on memory

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/04 22:17
Reported-by: syzbot+0d3d0d568286317f6db9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d06h, last: 7d06h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream kernel panic: System is deadlocked on memory (2) prio:high mm 2 syz, C 230 1h14m 729d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/08/12 10:54
upstream kernel panic: System is deadlocked on memory mm 2 syz, C done 43 2220d 2218d 15/29 fixed on 2020/11/16 12:12
linux-5.15 kernel panic: System is deadlocked on memory 2 1 105d 105d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/06 08:51

Sample crash report:
names_cache            15134KB      15499KB
net_namespace             56KB         56KB
lsm_inode_cache         1724KB       1729KB
lsm_file_cache           328KB        496KB
key_jar                   15KB         15KB
uts_namespace             15KB         15KB
nsproxy                    7KB          7KB
vm_area_struct           746KB        918KB
fs_cache                  45KB         84KB
files_cache              253KB        334KB
signal_cache             580KB       1366KB
sighand_cache            601KB        601KB
task_struct             2359KB       3136KB
cred_jar                 185KB        322KB
anon_vma_chain           347KB        429KB
anon_vma                  91KB        119KB
pid                       93KB        202KB
Acpi-Operand             100KB        110KB
Acpi-ParseExt             11KB         11KB
Acpi-Parse                19KB         19KB
Acpi-State                39KB         59KB
Acpi-Namespace            12KB         12KB
numa_policy                3KB          3KB
trace_event_file         472KB        472KB
ftrace_event_field        845KB        845KB
pool_workqueue           192KB        192KB
maple_node              7871KB       9112KB
task_group                30KB         30KB
mm_struct                258KB        567KB
vmap_area                159KB        275KB
debug_objects_cache       1824KB       1824KB
page->ptl                141KB        224KB
kmalloc-cg-8k           1216KB       1216KB
kmalloc-cg-4k          14384KB      14656KB
kmalloc-cg-2k           9056KB       9056KB
kmalloc-cg-1k           2596KB       2720KB
kmalloc-cg-512          1953KB       2112KB
kmalloc-cg-256           192KB        192KB
kmalloc-cg-128           499KB        572KB
kmalloc-8k              7456KB       7744KB
kmalloc-4k             83704KB      83704KB
kmalloc-2k             19452KB      20524KB
kmalloc-1k             25408KB      25408KB
kmalloc-512            44352KB      44352KB
kmalloc-256             5648KB       5648KB
kmalloc-128            16000KB      16000KB
kmem_cache_node          132KB        132KB
kmem_cache               196KB        196KB
Out of memory and no killable processes...
Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory
CPU: 1 PID: 3901 Comm: kworker/1:3 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/02/2026
Workqueue: mld mld_dad_work
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x1c4/0x1f0 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:158
 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:165
 __dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xf4/0x15c lib/dump_stack.c:106
 dump_stack+0x1c/0x5c lib/dump_stack.c:113
 panic+0x2f8/0x7ac kernel/panic.c:339
 out_of_memory+0xee4/0xf70 mm/oom_kill.c:1181
 __alloc_pages_may_oom mm/page_alloc.c:4525 [inline]
 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x1684/0x1e1c mm/page_alloc.c:5333
 __alloc_pages+0x338/0x544 mm/page_alloc.c:5671
 alloc_pages+0x434/0x6fc mm/mempolicy.c:-1
 alloc_slab_page+0x78/0x144 mm/slub.c:1799
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1952 [inline]
 new_slab+0x1f4/0x2d8 mm/slub.c:1997
 ___slab_alloc+0x890/0xe90 mm/slub.c:3154
 __slab_alloc+0x74/0xd0 mm/slub.c:3240
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x298/0x318 mm/slub.c:3398
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xb8/0x174 mm/slab_common.c:956
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:446 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x260/0x728 net/core/skbuff.c:515
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1303 [inline]
 mld_newpack+0x11c/0xa30 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1773
 add_grhead net/ipv6/mcast.c:1884 [inline]
 add_grec+0x1130/0x15b0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2023
 mld_send_initial_cr+0x168/0x2fc net/ipv6/mcast.c:2268
 mld_dad_work+0x40/0x1d8 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2294
 process_one_work+0x7e4/0x13bc kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0x8cc/0xfe8 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x254/0x2e0 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:850
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
Kernel Offset: disabled
CPU features: 0x0a0000,000f0097,a65bfea7
Memory Limit: none
Rebooting in 86400 seconds..

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/04 22:16 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 kernel panic: System is deadlocked on memory
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.