| Date | Name | Commit | Repro | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/09/06 | linux-6.1.y (ToT) | 28c695c365e1 | C | [report] possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach |
| 2025/09/06 | upstream (ToT) | d1d10cea0895 | C | Didn't crash |
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| Date | Name | Commit | Repro | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/09/06 | linux-6.1.y (ToT) | 28c695c365e1 | C | [report] possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach |
| 2025/09/06 | upstream (ToT) | d1d10cea0895 | C | Didn't crash |
| Kernel | Title | Rank 🛈 | Repro | Cause bisect | Fix bisect | Count | Last | Reported | Patched | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| upstream | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach kernel | 4 | C | unreliable | error | 63 | 10d | 1669d | 0/29 | upstream: reported C repro on 2021/03/26 01:19 |
| linux-4.14 | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach | 4 | C | error | 7 | 1137d | 1298d | 0/1 | upstream: reported C repro on 2022/04/01 16:43 | |
| linux-4.19 | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach | 4 | C | error | 11 | 1263d | 1757d | 0/1 | upstream: reported C repro on 2020/12/28 17:12 | |
| linux-5.15 | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach | 4 | syz | 1 | 338d | 338d | 0/3 | auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/24 18:46 |
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WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
6.1.148-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
syz.0.80/4623 is trying to acquire lock:
ffffffff8d3e9c38 (qp_broker_list.mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x110/0xef0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2095
but task is already holding lock:
ffffffff8d3e9c38 (qp_broker_list.mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x110/0xef0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2095
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(qp_broker_list.mutex);
lock(qp_broker_list.mutex);
*** DEADLOCK ***
May be due to missing lock nesting notation
1 lock held by syz.0.80/4623:
#0: ffffffff8d3e9c38 (qp_broker_list.mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x110/0xef0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2095
stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 PID: 4623 Comm: syz.0.80 Not tainted 6.1.148-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x22e lib/dump_stack.c:106
__lock_acquire+0x122f/0x7c50 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:-1
lock_acquire+0x1b4/0x490 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5662
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:603 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x120/0xaf0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:747
vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x110/0xef0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2095
ctx_free_ctx drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:444 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
vmci_ctx_put+0x5ec/0xc00 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:497
vmci_ctx_enqueue_datagram+0x3a7/0x420 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:360
dg_dispatch_as_host drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:276 [inline]
vmci_datagram_dispatch+0x438/0xbc0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:340
qp_notify_peer drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1481 [inline]
vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x8b5/0xef0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2188
ctx_free_ctx drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:444 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
vmci_ctx_put+0x5ec/0xc00 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:497
vmci_host_close+0x97/0x160 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c:143
__fput+0x22c/0x920 fs/file_table.c:320
task_work_run+0x1ca/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:203
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xb1/0x140 kernel/entry/common.c:210
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:292 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:303
do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f4f4e18ebe9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc8c712d78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f4f4e3b7da0 RCX: 00007f4f4e18ebe9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f4f4e3b7da0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000f8c71306f
R10: 00007f4f4e3b7cb0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000023d78
R13: 00007f4f4e3b6090 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 00007ffc8c712e90
</TASK>
| Time | Kernel | Commit | Syzkaller | Config | Log | Report | Syz repro | C repro | VM info | Assets (help?) | Manager | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/08/28 04:17 | linux-6.1.y | 0bc96de781b4 | e12e5ba4 | .config | console log | report | syz / log | C | [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci2-linux-6-1-kasan | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach | |
| 2025/08/28 12:25 | linux-6.1.y | 0bc96de781b4 | e12e5ba4 | .config | console log | report | syz / log | [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci2-linux-6-1-kasan | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach | ||
| 2025/08/28 06:56 | linux-6.1.y | 0bc96de781b4 | e12e5ba4 | .config | console log | report | syz / log | [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci2-linux-6-1-kasan | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach | ||
| 2025/08/28 05:15 | linux-6.1.y | 0bc96de781b4 | e12e5ba4 | .config | console log | report | syz / log | [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci2-linux-6-1-kasan | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach | ||
| 2025/08/28 02:16 | linux-6.1.y | 0bc96de781b4 | e12e5ba4 | .config | console log | report | syz / log | [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci2-linux-6-1-kasan | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach | ||
| 2025/08/28 00:48 | linux-6.1.y | 0bc96de781b4 | e12e5ba4 | .config | console log | report | info | [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] | ci2-linux-6-1-kasan | possible deadlock in vmci_qp_broker_detach |