kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2022/11/11 22:11
Reported-by: syzbot+20afa8b61409231ea709@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1362d, last: 1256d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (20)
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 syz, C error inconclusive 541 13h37m 1391d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2022/10/13 06:16
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (5) kernel 2 syz, C done inconclusive 9 1708d 1948d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/05 15:05
linux-6.1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 23 9m 11d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/24 21:58
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) 2 syz 1 3190d 3190d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/12/06 10:59
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 3283d 3283d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/08/11 14:48
android-6-1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 5 7h03m 2d04h 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/08/02 19:40
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 3250d 3250d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/09/12 18:13
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) kernel 2 syz 347 3148d 3141d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/12/28 09:40
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (6) kernel 2 2 1196d 1207d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/25 19:19
android-54 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 2165d 2165d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/14 11:56
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (4) kernel 2 syz, C done 19 2331d 2947d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/03/18 10:26
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) kernel 2 syz, C 9 3027d 3139d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/06/14 08:46
android-414 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 3 2563d 2673d 0/1 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/10 16:04
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (7) kernel 2 4063 590d 608d 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 342d 428d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/25 11:57
linux-5.15 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz 17 40m 11d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/07/24 21:50
linux-6.6 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! origin:upstream 2 syz, C 32 now 10d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/25 00:26
android-5-10 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C error inconclusive 875 8d11h 1187d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2023/05/05 07:30
android-44 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 8 2808d 2671d 0/2 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) 2 syz, C 22 2563d 2671d 0/3 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00
▶ ▼ Fix bisection attempts (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2023/02/25 17:07 27m bisect fix linux-4.14.y OK (0) job log log
2023/01/25 06:15 24m bisect fix linux-4.14.y OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.14.299-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x1b2/0x281 lib/dump_stack.c:58
 panic+0x1f9/0x42d kernel/panic.c:183
 do_exit.cold+0x69/0x18c kernel/exit.c:837
 do_group_exit+0x100/0x2e0 kernel/exit.c:965
 get_signal+0x38d/0x1ca0 kernel/signal.c:2412
 do_signal+0x7c/0x1550 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:792
 exit_to_usermode_loop+0x160/0x200 arch/x86/entry/common.c:160
 prepare_exit_to_usermode arch/x86/entry/common.c:199 [inline]
 syscall_return_slowpath arch/x86/entry/common.c:270 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4a3/0x640 arch/x86/entry/common.c:297
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5e/0xd3
Kernel Offset: disabled
Rebooting in 86400 seconds..

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2022/11/11 22:11 linux-4.14.y e911713e40ca f42ee5d8 .config console log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-4-14 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.