| Title | Replies (including bot) | Last reply |
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| [PATCH] perf: Fix deadlock in perf_mmap() | 15 (15) | 2026/03/27 12:34 |
| [syzbot] [perf?] possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock (2) | 3 (6) | 2026/03/09 06:40 |
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| [PATCH] perf: Fix deadlock in perf_mmap() | 15 (15) | 2026/03/27 12:34 |
| [syzbot] [perf?] possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock (2) | 3 (6) | 2026/03/09 06:40 |
| Kernel | Title | Rank 🛈 | Repro | Cause bisect | Fix bisect | Count | Last | Reported | Patched | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| upstream | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock nbd | 4 | 1 | 2408d | 2404d | 0/29 | auto-closed as invalid on 2019/11/20 04:39 | |||
| linux-4.19 | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | 4 | C | done | done | 5 | 2309d | 2365d | 1/1 | fixed on 2020/01/28 16:29 |
| linux-4.14 | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | 4 | C | done | 10 | 2312d | 2384d | 1/1 | fixed on 2020/01/25 22:00 |
R10: 0000000000000013 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007ff784215fac R14: 00007ff784215fa0 R15: 00007ff784215fa0
</TASK>
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
syzkaller #0 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
syz.0.17/5460 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88801f26c9e0 (&event->mmap_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock+0x30/0xa0 lib/refcount.c:118
but task is already holding lock:
ffff88801f26c9e0 (&event->mmap_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: class_mutex_constructor include/linux/mutex.h:253 [inline]
ffff88801f26c9e0 (&event->mmap_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: perf_mmap+0x1bb/0x4b0 kernel/events/core.c:7453
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(&event->mmap_mutex);
lock(&event->mmap_mutex);
*** DEADLOCK ***
May be due to missing lock nesting notation
2 locks held by syz.0.17/5460:
#0: ffff888011a94080 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: mmap_write_lock_killable include/linux/mmap_lock.h:554 [inline]
#0: ffff888011a94080 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: vm_mmap_pgoff+0x234/0x4f0 mm/util.c:579
#1: ffff88801f26c9e0 (&event->mmap_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: class_mutex_constructor include/linux/mutex.h:253 [inline]
#1: ffff88801f26c9e0 (&event->mmap_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: perf_mmap+0x1bb/0x4b0 kernel/events/core.c:7453
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5460 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_deadlock_bug+0x279/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3041
check_deadlock kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3093 [inline]
validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3895 [inline]
__lock_acquire+0x253f/0x2cf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237
lock_acquire+0xf0/0x2e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:614 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x19f/0x1300 kernel/locking/mutex.c:776
refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock+0x30/0xa0 lib/refcount.c:118
perf_mmap_close+0x953/0xf90 kernel/events/core.c:7064
perf_mmap+0x418/0x4b0 kernel/events/core.c:7488
vfs_mmap include/linux/fs.h:2070 [inline]
mmap_file mm/internal.h:167 [inline]
__mmap_new_file_vma mm/vma.c:2468 [inline]
__mmap_new_vma mm/vma.c:2532 [inline]
__mmap_region mm/vma.c:2759 [inline]
mmap_region+0x18fe/0x2240 mm/vma.c:2837
do_mmap+0xc39/0x10c0 mm/mmap.c:559
vm_mmap_pgoff+0x2c9/0x4f0 mm/util.c:581
ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x51e/0x760 mm/mmap.c:605
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff783f9c799
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:00007ffeef4c8518 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff784215fa0 RCX: 00007ff783f9c799
RDX: 0000000001000008 RSI: 0000000000002000 RDI: 0000200000ffe000
RBP: 00007ffeef4c8580 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000013 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007ff784215fac R14: 00007ff784215fa0 R15: 00007ff784215fa0
</TASK>
| Time | Kernel | Commit | Syzkaller | Config | Log | Report | Syz repro | C repro | VM info | Assets (help?) | Manager | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/03/06 18:41 | upstream | 5ee8dbf54602 | 41d8037d | .config | console log | report | syz / log | C | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | |
| 2026/03/06 18:11 | upstream | 5ee8dbf54602 | 41d8037d | .config | console log | report | syz / log | C | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | |
| 2026/04/17 20:35 | upstream | 43cfbdda5af6 | 24ecfc1e | .config | console log | report | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | |||
| 2026/04/14 19:17 | upstream | d60bc1401583 | 362d1323 | .config | console log | report | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | |||
| 2026/04/09 04:28 | upstream | 7f87a5ea75f0 | 38c8e246 | .config | console log | report | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | |||
| 2026/04/01 06:31 | upstream | dbf00d8d23b4 | fb8b2c26 | .config | console log | report | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | |||
| 2026/03/13 04:37 | upstream | 8004279c41ad | 2f7f359d | .config | console log | report | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | |||
| 2026/03/08 14:16 | upstream | c23719abc330 | 5cb44a80 | .config | console log | report | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock | |||
| 2026/03/06 17:43 | upstream | 5ee8dbf54602 | 41d8037d | .config | console log | report | [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci-snapshot-upstream-root | possible deadlock in refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock |