kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/24 21:58
Reported-by: syzbot+181812efe47a5faa4481@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d08h, last: 1d08h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (19)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-15 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! origin:upstream missing-backport 2 C error inconclusive 538 458d 1382d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2022/10/13 06:16
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (5) kernel 2 C done inconclusive 9 1698d 1938d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/05 15:05
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) 2 syz 1 3180d 3180d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/12/06 10:59
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 1 3273d 3273d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/08/11 14:48
linux-4.14 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 1 1246d 1352d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/11/11 22:11
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 1 3241d 3241d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/09/12 18:13
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) kernel 2 syz 347 3138d 3131d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/12/28 09:40
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (6) kernel 2 2 1186d 1197d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/25 19:19
android-54 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 1 2156d 2156d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/14 11:56
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (4) kernel 2 C done 19 2322d 2937d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/03/18 10:26
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) kernel 2 C 9 3017d 3130d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/06/14 08:46
android-414 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 3 2553d 2663d 0/1 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/10 16:04
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (7) kernel 2 4063 580d 598d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/10 07:38
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (8) kernel 2 2 332d 418d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/25 11:57
linux-5.15 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 2 22h42m 1d08h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/24 21:50
linux-6.6 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 2 1d06h 1d06h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/25 00:26
android-5-10 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C error inconclusive 868 454d 1177d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2023/05/05 07:30
android-44 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 8 2798d 2661d 0/2 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) 2 C 22 2553d 2661d 0/3 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00

Sample crash report:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000007
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/02/2026
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
 do_exit+0x1504/0x19ac kernel/exit.c:841
 do_group_exit+0x198/0x238 kernel/exit.c:1024
 get_signal+0x11f4/0x133c kernel/signal.c:2872
 do_signal arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:1095 [inline]
 do_notify_resume+0x2a8/0x2c84 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:1148
 prepare_exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:137 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:142 [inline]
 el0_ia+0xe8/0x1d0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:534
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xd8/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:661
 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:585
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
2026/07/24 21:57 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 dd737a83 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.