BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in bucket_table_alloc

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/21 16:57
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+0dbf6d295b3350944f0b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: mm/mempolicy: fix sleeping allocation in alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave()
Patched on: [ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 5d14h, last: 5d14h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
a5b67244 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in bucket_table_alloc 2026/08/23 00:56 2026/08/23 00:56 2026/08/23 01:06 1e72964b
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] mm/mempolicy: Fix sleeping allocation in alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave() 12 (12) 2026/08/24 18:39
[syzbot] [mm?] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in bucket_table_alloc 0 (1) 2026/08/21 16:57

Sample crash report:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/sched/mm.h:322
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 15133, name: syz.6.1501
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
locks held by syz.6.1501/15133: 2, last CPU#1:
 #0: ffffffff90250500 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:80 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff90250500 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x767/0xc00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7138
 #1: ffffffff8ed5ca60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:309 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8ed5ca60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:849 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8ed5ca60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rhashtable_insert_slow+0x1cf/0x2000 lib/rhashtable.c:683
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 15133 Comm: syz.6.1501 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 __might_resched+0x36a/0x4c0 kernel/sched/core.c:9236
 might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:322 [inline]
 slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4636 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4974 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0xef/0x720 mm/slub.c:5439
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave mm/mempolicy.c:2682 [inline]
 alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy_noprof+0xaef/0x1690 mm/mempolicy.c:2785
 vm_area_alloc_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3736 [inline]
 __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:3914 [inline]
 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0xa0a/0x1540 mm/vmalloc.c:4104
 __vmalloc_node_noprof mm/vmalloc.c:4165 [inline]
 __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:3890 [inline]
 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x58b/0x1540 mm/vmalloc.c:4104
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x5a1/0x820 mm/slub.c:7033
 bucket_table_alloc+0x75/0x380 lib/rhashtable.c:197
 rhashtable_insert_rehash lib/rhashtable.c:503 [inline]
 rhashtable_try_insert lib/rhashtable.c:671 [inline]
 rhashtable_insert_slow+0x1c66/0x2000 lib/rhashtable.c:684
 __rhashtable_insert_fast include/linux/rhashtable.h:789 [inline]
 rhashtable_lookup_insert_fast include/linux/rhashtable.h:966 [inline]
 vxlan_vni_add drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c:744 [inline]
 vxlan_vni_add_del drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c:824 [inline]
 vxlan_process_vni_filter drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c:891 [inline]
 vxlan_vnifilter_process+0x357a/0x4d40 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c:973
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7b9/0xc00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7141
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7bd/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x13a/0x180 net/socket.c:800
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x54e/0x850 net/socket.c:2713
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2767
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2799 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2804 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2802 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1b1/0x290 net/socket.c:2802

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/21 12:47 linux-next 7079a12d7506 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in bucket_table_alloc
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.