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WARNING: ODEBUG bug in handle_softirqs

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/26 16:28
Reported-by: syzbot+474a0f95923afb446ae8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d22h, last: 22h33m
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING: ODEBUG bug in handle_softirqs hams -1 C 1686 9h47m 154d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/27 17:00

Sample crash report:
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ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: ffff888077a23278 object type: timer_list hint: br_ip6_multicast_port_query_expired+0x0/0x20
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at lib/debugobjects.c:518 debug_print_object lib/debugobjects.c:515 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at lib/debugobjects.c:518 __debug_check_no_obj_freed lib/debugobjects.c:990 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at lib/debugobjects.c:518 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x446/0x540 lib/debugobjects.c:1020
Modules linked in:

CPU: 0 PID: 16 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:debug_print_object lib/debugobjects.c:515 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__debug_check_no_obj_freed lib/debugobjects.c:990 [inline]
RIP: 0010:debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x446/0x540 lib/debugobjects.c:1020
Code: 4c 8b 4d 00 48 c7 c7 a0 8a 1c 8b 48 c7 c6 00 87 1c 8b 48 c7 c2 20 8c 1c 8b 8b 0c 24 4d 89 f8 41 55 e8 3e 56 20 fd 48 83 c4 08 <0f> 0b 4c 8b 6c 24 18 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df ff 05 73 8d 5a
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001578b8 EFLAGS: 00010286

RAX: 5e56e77a03797700 RBX: ffffffff974c1e30 RCX: ffff88801b665a00
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: ffffffff8accab20 R08: ffffffff8e8ad9ef R09: 1ffffffff1d15b3d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d15b3e R12: ffff888077a23400
R13: ffffffff89613390 R14: ffff888077a23000 R15: ffff888077a23278
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f499220a286 CR3: 0000000058ec9000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1786 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xd2/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:3843
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x221/0x460 lib/kobject.c:737
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2194 [inline]
 rcu_core+0xcfb/0x1770 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2467
 handle_softirqs+0x280/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
 run_ksoftirqd+0xa8/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:950
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x635/0xa00 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/28 16:21 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 004c195c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING: ODEBUG bug in handle_softirqs
2026/01/26 16:27 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 a4c52dd6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING: ODEBUG bug in handle_softirqs
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.