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WARNING in _cpu_down

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/09 17:57
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+123e1b70473ce213f3af@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: c8c4a2972f83 padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure
Patched on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce 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-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb], missing on: [ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-upstream-gce-arm64]
First crash: 51d, last: 35d
Discussions (3)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH v2] padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure 2 (2) 2026/03/21 08:51
[syzbot] [kernel?] WARNING in _cpu_down 3 (5) 2026/03/17 03:52
[PATCH] padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure 1 (1) 2026/03/12 17:29

Sample crash report:
smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x1
------------[ cut here ]------------
DEAD callback error for CPU1
WARNING: kernel/cpu.c:1463 at _cpu_down+0x759/0x1020 kernel/cpu.c:1463, CPU#0: syz.0.42/6160
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6160 Comm: syz.0.42 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:_cpu_down+0x75c/0x1020 kernel/cpu.c:1463
Code: 5e 7a f6 89 ee bf 91 00 00 00 e8 df 58 7a f6 81 fd 91 00 00 00 0f 84 6b 02 00 00 e8 1e 5e 7a f6 48 8d 3d f7 f4 4e 05 44 89 ee <67> 48 0f b9 3a e9 3a fa ff ff 45 31 ff e9 32 fa ff ff e8 fd 5d 7a
RSP: 0018:ffffc900025bfaa8 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880b85242e0 RCX: ffffffff8b8dba31
RDX: ffff888023360000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff90dcaf40
RBP: 0000000000000092 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000091
R10: 0000000000000092 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00000000000000ed
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00000000fffffff5
FS:  00007f1ff86986c0(0000) GS:ffff88812434a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f870620bff8 CR3: 0000000077a0a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 cpu_down_maps_locked kernel/cpu.c:1483 [inline]
 cpu_down kernel/cpu.c:1491 [inline]
 cpu_device_down+0x82/0xc0 kernel/cpu.c:1508
 device_offline drivers/base/core.c:4196 [inline]
 device_offline+0x2a7/0x3c0 drivers/base/core.c:4180
 online_store+0xd1/0x180 drivers/base/core.c:2809
 dev_attr_store+0x58/0x80 drivers/base/core.c:2437
 sysfs_kf_write+0xf2/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:142
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e0/0x5f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6ac/0x1070 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x106/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f1ff779c799
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f1ff8698028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1ff7a16090 RCX: 00007f1ff779c799
RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 00002000000002c0 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f1ff7832c99 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1ff7a16128 R14: 00007f1ff7a16090 R15: 00007ffeae6408f8
 </TASK>
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	5e                   	pop    %rsi
   1:	7a f6                	jp     0xfffffff9
   3:	89 ee                	mov    %ebp,%esi
   5:	bf 91 00 00 00       	mov    $0x91,%edi
   a:	e8 df 58 7a f6       	call   0xf67a58ee
   f:	81 fd 91 00 00 00    	cmp    $0x91,%ebp
  15:	0f 84 6b 02 00 00    	je     0x286
  1b:	e8 1e 5e 7a f6       	call   0xf67a5e3e
  20:	48 8d 3d f7 f4 4e 05 	lea    0x54ef4f7(%rip),%rdi        # 0x54ef51e
  27:	44 89 ee             	mov    %r13d,%esi
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	e9 3a fa ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffa6e
  34:	45 31 ff             	xor    %r15d,%r15d
  37:	e9 32 fa ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffa6e
  3c:	e8                   	.byte 0xe8
  3d:	fd                   	std
  3e:	5d                   	pop    %rbp
  3f:	7a                   	.byte 0x7a

Crashes (37):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/17 07:04 upstream 2d1373e4246d 0737c18f .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/17 03:52 upstream 2d1373e4246d 0737c18f .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/22 06:03 upstream 113ae7b4decc 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/22 06:03 upstream 113ae7b4decc 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/20 18:14 upstream 0e4f8f1a3d08 85bf2a64 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/20 12:03 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/20 12:03 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/20 12:00 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/20 05:28 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/20 04:34 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/20 04:33 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/19 21:51 upstream 8a30aeb0d1b4 bd6dcb30 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/19 11:37 upstream 8a30aeb0d1b4 bd6dcb30 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/18 12:43 upstream a989fde763f4 0199f9a1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/18 10:08 upstream f0caa1d49cc0 c8810548 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/18 09:04 upstream f0caa1d49cc0 c8810548 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/18 06:08 upstream f0caa1d49cc0 c8810548 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/17 20:51 upstream 2d1373e4246d c8810548 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/17 20:17 upstream 2d1373e4246d c8810548 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/17 14:42 upstream 2d1373e4246d c01bca74 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/16 17:17 upstream f338e7738378 64e21424 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/15 04:51 upstream 69237f8c1f69 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/15 03:43 upstream 69237f8c1f69 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/15 03:11 upstream 69237f8c1f69 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/15 02:55 upstream 69237f8c1f69 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/14 17:21 upstream 1c9982b49613 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/14 16:00 upstream 1c9982b49613 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/13 13:36 upstream 0257f64bdac7 2f7f359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/13 13:35 upstream 0257f64bdac7 2f7f359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/13 08:59 upstream 8004279c41ad 2f7f359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/13 05:39 upstream 8004279c41ad 2f7f359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/12 15:16 upstream 80234b5ab240 4efadf07 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/11 18:46 upstream b29fb8829bff 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/11 05:19 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/07 10:20 upstream 4ae12d8bd9a8 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/07 10:19 upstream 4ae12d8bd9a8 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
2026/03/05 17:56 upstream c107785c7e8d d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in _cpu_down
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.