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WARNING in _cpu_down

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/09 17:57
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+123e1b70473ce213f3af@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d06h, last: 3d14h
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[syzbot] [kernel?] WARNING in _cpu_down 0 (1) 2026/03/09 17:57

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.0.1960/14614
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14614 Comm: syz.0.1960 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: c5 7a f6 89 ee bf 91 00 00 00 e8 1f c0 7a f6 81 fd 91 00 00 00 0f 84 6b 02 00 00 e8 5e c5 7a f6 48 8d 3d 67 73 4f 05 44 89 ee <67> 48 0f b9 3a e9 3a fa ff ff 45 31 ff e9 32 fa ff ff e8 3d c5 7a
RSP: 0018:ffffc900048f7aa8 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880b85242e0 RCX: ffffffff8b8d4a31
RDX: ffff88802e158000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff90dcbdb0
RBP: 0000000000000092 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000091
R10: 0000000000000092 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00000000000000ed
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00000000fffffff5
FS:  00007f0d3e4e06c0(0000) GS:ffff88812434b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000001b19000 CR3: 0000000059358000 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: 0033:0x7f0d3d59c799
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:00007f0d3e4e0028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0d3d816180 RCX: 00007f0d3d59c799
RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 00002000000002c0 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f0d3d632bd9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0d3d816218 R14: 00007f0d3d816180 R15: 00007ffd5aeaf7e8
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess), 1 bytes skipped:
   0:	7a f6                	jp     0xfffffff8
   2:	89 ee                	mov    %ebp,%esi
   4:	bf 91 00 00 00       	mov    $0x91,%edi
   9:	e8 1f c0 7a f6       	call   0xf67ac02d
   e:	81 fd 91 00 00 00    	cmp    $0x91,%ebp
  14:	0f 84 6b 02 00 00    	je     0x285
  1a:	e8 5e c5 7a f6       	call   0xf67ac57d
  1f:	48 8d 3d 67 73 4f 05 	lea    0x54f7367(%rip),%rdi        # 0x54f738d
  26:	44 89 ee             	mov    %r13d,%esi
* 29:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	e9 3a fa ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffa6d
  33:	45 31 ff             	xor    %r15d,%r15d
  36:	e9 32 fa ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffa6d
  3b:	e8                   	.byte 0xe8
  3c:	3d                   	.byte 0x3d
  3d:	c5                   	.byte 0xc5
  3e:	7a                   	.byte 0x7a

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
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.