BUG: soft lockup in rtnl_setlink

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/07/27 10:01
Reported-by: syzbot+4b6974eabdac41da7d52@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 823d, last: 823d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.14 BUG: soft lockup in rtnl_setlink 1 1 1539d 1539d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/09/10 23:34
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in rtnl_setlink origin:lts-only 1 syz, C inconclusive 16 875d 1036d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/03 07:39
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in rtnl_setlink (2) 1 1 247d 247d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/05 21:41
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in rtnl_setlink (2) net 1 1 463d 463d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/22 03:11
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in rtnl_setlink 1 2 9d17h 47d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/06/13 18:38
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in rtnl_setlink batman 1 1 1793d 1793d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/11/30 03:45
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in rtnl_setlink (3) net 1 1 226d 226d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/17 00:18

Sample crash report:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 226s! [syz-executor.3:710]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 710 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.15.149-syzkaller-00490-g5d96939590c0 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
RIP: 0010:arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kvm_wait+0x147/0x180 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:918
Code: 4c 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 44 8b 74 24 1c 75 34 41 0f b6 45 00 44 38 f0 75 10 66 90 0f 00 2d 5b 03 f3 03 fb f4 <e9> 24 ff ff ff fb e9 1e ff ff ff 44 89 e9 80 e1 07 38 c1 7c a3 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000b757a0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: 1ffff9200016eaf8 RCX: ffffffff8154fa7f
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff88810bac3768
RBP: ffffc90000b75850 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed10217586ee
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88810bac3768 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 1ffff9200016eafc
FS:  00007ffab305d6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffab440ec68 CR3: 00000001288e6000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 pv_wait arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:597 [inline]
 pv_wait_head_or_lock kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h:470 [inline]
 __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x6bc/0xc40 kernel/locking/qspinlock.c:508
 pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:585 [inline]
 queued_spin_lock_slowpath arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h:51 [inline]
 queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:85 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:187 [inline]
 __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:136 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x139/0x1b0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178
 sock_hash_delete_elem+0xb1/0x2f0 net/core/sock_map.c:937
 bpf_prog_2c29ac5cdc6b1842+0x3a/0xcb0
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:785 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:625 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:632 [inline]
 __bpf_trace_run kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1883 [inline]
 bpf_trace_run2+0xec/0x210 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1920
 __bpf_trace_kfree+0x6f/0x90 include/trace/events/kmem.h:118
 trace_kfree include/trace/events/kmem.h:118 [inline]
 kfree+0x1f3/0x220 mm/slub.c:4569
 sk_psock_free_link include/linux/skmsg.h:420 [inline]
 sock_map_del_link net/core/sock_map.c:160 [inline]
 sock_map_unref+0x352/0x4d0 net/core/sock_map.c:182
 sock_hash_delete_elem+0x274/0x2f0 net/core/sock_map.c:941
 bpf_prog_2c29ac5cdc6b1842+0x3a/0xcb0
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:785 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:625 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:632 [inline]
 __bpf_trace_run kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1883 [inline]
 bpf_trace_run2+0xec/0x210 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1920
 __bpf_trace_kfree+0x6f/0x90 include/trace/events/kmem.h:118
 trace_kfree include/trace/events/kmem.h:118 [inline]
 kfree+0x1f3/0x220 mm/slub.c:4569
 skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:656 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x8a9/0xa80 net/core/skbuff.c:678
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:743 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:757 [inline]
 consume_skb+0xac/0x250 net/core/skbuff.c:930
 netlink_broadcast_filtered+0x10f4/0x1220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1540
 netlink_broadcast net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1562 [inline]
 nlmsg_multicast include/net/netlink.h:1033 [inline]
 nlmsg_notify+0x101/0x1c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2548
 rtnl_notify+0x9c/0xd0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:730
 rtmsg_fib+0x3a1/0x620 net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c:540
 fib_table_delete+0x10fc/0x13f0 net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:1761
 fib_magic net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1095 [inline]
 fib_del_ifaddr+0x1599/0x2580 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1297
 fib_inetaddr_event+0xca/0x310 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1437
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0xbb/0x140 kernel/notifier.c:318
 __inet_del_ifa+0x7ff/0xdb0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:428
 inet_del_ifa net/ipv4/devinet.c:465 [inline]
 inetdev_destroy net/ipv4/devinet.c:318 [inline]
 inetdev_event+0x64f/0x1040 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1598
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x8c/0xf0 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info net/core/dev.c:2025 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers_mtu+0x189/0x220 net/core/dev.c:2074
 dev_set_mtu_ext+0x4b0/0x690 net/core/dev.c:8959
 do_setlink+0x969/0x3ae0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2704
 rtnl_setlink+0x3eb/0x540 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3034
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x951/0xc40 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5630
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1cf/0x410 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2505
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5648
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1330 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x8df/0xac0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1356
 netlink_sendmsg+0xa0a/0xd20 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1924
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x39b/0x530 net/socket.c:1079
 do_iter_readv_writev+0x58e/0x790
 do_iter_write+0x1f5/0x760 fs/read_write.c:855
 vfs_writev+0x2ac/0x560 fs/read_write.c:928
 do_writev+0x1aa/0x340 fs/read_write.c:971
 __do_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1044 [inline]
 __se_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1041 [inline]
 __x64_sys_writev+0x7d/0x90 fs/read_write.c:1041
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7ffab42e9ea9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 e1 20 00 00 90 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 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffab305d0c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000014
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffab4417f80 RCX: 00007ffab42e9ea9
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000200003c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007ffab43364a4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007ffab4417f80 R15: 00007ffc9056f918
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 713 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.15.149-syzkaller-00490-g5d96939590c0 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
RIP: 0010:arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kvm_wait+0x147/0x180 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:918
Code: 4c 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 44 8b 74 24 1c 75 34 41 0f b6 45 00 44 38 f0 75 10 66 90 0f 00 2d 5b 03 f3 03 fb f4 <e9> 24 ff ff ff fb e9 1e ff ff ff 44 89 e9 80 e1 07 38 c1 7c a3 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000c66f80 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 1ffff9200018cdf4 RCX: 1ffffffff0d1aa9c
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff8881f7137ed4
RBP: ffffc90000c67030 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed103ee26fdb
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff8881f7137ed4 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 1ffff9200018cdf8
FS:  0000555556395480(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2e123000 CR3: 000000012b3fc000 CR4: 00000000003526a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <NMI>
 </NMI>
 <TASK>
 pv_wait arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:597 [inline]
 pv_wait_node kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h:325 [inline]
 __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x41b/0xc40 kernel/locking/qspinlock.c:473
 pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:585 [inline]
 queued_spin_lock_slowpath arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h:51 [inline]
 queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:85 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:187 [inline]
 __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:136 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x139/0x1b0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178
 sock_hash_delete_elem+0xb1/0x2f0 net/core/sock_map.c:937
 bpf_prog_2c29ac5cdc6b1842+0x3a/0xcb0
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:785 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:625 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:632 [inline]
 __bpf_trace_run kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1883 [inline]
 bpf_trace_run2+0xec/0x210 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1920
 __bpf_trace_kfree+0x6f/0x90 include/trace/events/kmem.h:118
 trace_kfree include/trace/events/kmem.h:118 [inline]
 kfree+0x1f3/0x220 mm/slub.c:4569
 context_destroy security/selinux/ss/context.h:177 [inline]
 security_compute_sid+0x1d7d/0x1f40 security/selinux/ss/services.c:1913
 security_transition_sid+0x7d/0x90 security/selinux/ss/services.c:1936
 selinux_determine_inode_label+0x29c/0x3b0 security/selinux/hooks.c:1822
 selinux_inode_init_security+0x26a/0x780 security/selinux/hooks.c:3005
 security_inode_init_security+0x15b/0x390 security/security.c:1104
 ext4_init_security+0x34/0x40 fs/ext4/xattr_security.c:58
 __ext4_new_inode+0x31f0/0x40a0 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1329
 ext4_symlink+0x4c3/0xed0 fs/ext4/namei.c:3382
 vfs_symlink+0x29f/0x480 fs/namei.c:4429
 do_symlinkat+0x1ea/0x5a0 fs/namei.c:4458
 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4475 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4472 [inline]
 __x64_sys_symlinkat+0x99/0xb0 fs/namei.c:4472
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7fdc67b8a627
Code: 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 0a 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffcd9468ae8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000010a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcd9468bb0 RCX: 00007fdc67b8a627
RDX: 00007fdc67bd7545 RSI: 00000000ffffff9c RDI: 00007fdc67bd650e
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2024/04/28 09:56 android13-5.15-lts 5d96939590c0 07b455f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in rtnl_setlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.