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BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many (2)

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/06/08 12:36
Subsystems: net
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+381d82bbf0253710b35d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 28d, last: 4d10h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
f2e79ce4-c393-4bd8-be60-0b8df461dfd1 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ✅ BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many (2) 2026/05/30 02:43 2026/05/30 02:43 2026/05/30 03:35 6b4a844333e83556da95d61d7f207e7ef5cd4bc6
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH net] net: watchdog: fix refcount tracking races 4 (4) 2026/06/08 20:59
[syzbot] [net?] BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many (2) 0 (1) 2026/06/08 12:36
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many net 19 C 22 41d 280d 29/29 fixed on 2026/05/06 16:40
upstream KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in dev_deactivate_many net 17 1 610d 610d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/13 04:11
Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/06/08 09:06 20m edumazet@google.com patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing OK log
2026/06/08 05:27 27m edumazet@google.com patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing report log

Sample crash report:
list_del corruption, ffff888114a18c00->next is NULL
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kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:52!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 91 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound linkwatch_event
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report.cold+0x22/0x2a lib/list_debug.c:52
Code: e8 9d d8 fa ff 90 0f 0b 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 80 85 b0 87 e8 8b d8 fa ff 90 0f 0b 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 20 85 b0 87 e8 79 d8 fa ff 90 <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000517870 EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: 0000000000000033 RBX: ffff888114a18c00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000033 RSI: ffffffff819207d9 RDI: fffff520000a2eff
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000080000202 R11: fffffffffffeb4a0 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffc900005178c0 R14: ffff888135550678 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8882687a5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007febffbd4e9c CR3: 0000000120bc2000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __list_del_entry_valid include/linux/list.h:132 [inline]
 __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:246 [inline]
 list_move_tail include/linux/list.h:341 [inline]
 ref_tracker_free+0x1a7/0x6c0 lib/ref_tracker.c:329
 netdev_tracker_free include/linux/netdevice.h:4491 [inline]
 netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4508 [inline]
 netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4504 [inline]
 netdev_watchdog_down net/sched/sch_generic.c:600 [inline]
 dev_deactivate_many+0x28c/0xfe0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1363
 dev_deactivate+0x109/0x1d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1397
 linkwatch_do_dev net/core/link_watch.c:184 [inline]
 linkwatch_do_dev+0xd3/0x120 net/core/link_watch.c:166
 __linkwatch_run_queue+0x3a5/0x810 net/core/link_watch.c:240
 linkwatch_event+0x8f/0xc0 net/core/link_watch.c:314
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x69a/0xc80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report.cold+0x22/0x2a lib/list_debug.c:52
Code: e8 9d d8 fa ff 90 0f 0b 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 80 85 b0 87 e8 8b d8 fa ff 90 0f 0b 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 20 85 b0 87 e8 79 d8 fa ff 90 <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000517870 EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: 0000000000000033 RBX: ffff888114a18c00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000033 RSI: ffffffff819207d9 RDI: fffff520000a2eff
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000080000202 R11: fffffffffffeb4a0 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffc900005178c0 R14: ffff888135550678 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8882687a5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007febffbd4e9c CR3: 0000000120bc2000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/04 21:38 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 511e746700ee 197909be .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many
2026/05/28 21:29 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 9a5a7e5e .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many
2026/06/05 02:52 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 511e746700ee 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many
2026/06/03 04:15 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 55311a92bc95 3c0d2131 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many
2026/05/21 05:12 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing e18b0dbb6ec6 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many
2026/05/15 05:05 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing e18b0dbb6ec6 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many
2026/05/12 10:18 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing e18b0dbb6ec6 07aeade5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb BUG: corrupted list in dev_deactivate_many
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.