WARNING in bpf_prog_pack_free

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/11/02 17:33
Reported-by: syzbot+5b071725a50ff66b14f8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10d, last: 10d

Sample crash report:
421877 pages reserved
8192 pages cma reserved
2 pages hwpoisoned
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bpf_prog_pack bug: missing bpf_arch_text_invalidate?
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4542 at kernel/bpf/core.c:1019 bpf_prog_pack_free+0x3b0/0x430 kernel/bpf/core.c:1018
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 4542 Comm: syz.1.28 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/23/2026
pstate: 62400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : bpf_prog_pack_free+0x3b0/0x430 kernel/bpf/core.c:1018
lr : bpf_prog_pack_free+0x3b0/0x430 kernel/bpf/core.c:1018
sp : ffff8000226076c0
x29: ffff8000226076c0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 1fffe0001b5a8002
x26: ffff8000163dd000 x25: 1ffff00002c7bb35 x24: dfff800000000000
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff800018db3000
x20: ffff8000163dd9a8 x19: ffff0000dad40000 x18: 1fffe00033c2597e
x17: ffff8000163dd000 x16: ffff8000082de324 x15: 0000000040000000
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 1fffe00033c28088 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ff0080000a932840 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : e3c70aba3f26a500
x8 : e3c70aba3f26a500 x7 : ffff80000825b754 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000080 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000006 x1 : ffff800011cfdca0 x0 : ffff800187df6000
Call trace:
 bpf_prog_pack_free+0x3b0/0x430 kernel/bpf/core.c:1018
 bpf_dispatcher_change_prog+0x2d0/0x874 kernel/bpf/dispatcher.c:156
 bpf_prog_change_xdp+0x30/0x40 net/core/filter.c:11650
 bpf_prog_test_run_xdp+0x5bc/0xd10 net/bpf/test_run.c:1454
 bpf_prog_test_run+0x2dc/0x36c kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3748
 __sys_bpf+0x504/0x660 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5112
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5198 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5196 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_bpf+0x80/0x98 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5196
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x290 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
 el0_svc_common+0x13c/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 do_el0_svc+0x5c/0x134 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:204
 el0_svc+0x58/0x12c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655
 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:589
irq event stamp: 2986
hardirqs last  enabled at (2985): [<ffff80000825b7e8>] raw_spin_rq_unlock_irq kernel/sched/sched.h:1375 [inline]
hardirqs last  enabled at (2985): [<ffff80000825b7e8>] finish_lock_switch+0xb0/0x1c8 kernel/sched/core.c:5016
hardirqs last disabled at (2986): [<ffff800011b9d7f8>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:405
softirqs last  enabled at (2968): [<ffff8000081aec5c>] softirq_handle_end kernel/softirq.c:439 [inline]
softirqs last  enabled at (2968): [<ffff8000081aec5c>] handle_softirqs+0xb1c/0xc90 kernel/softirq.c:624
softirqs last disabled at (2953): [<ffff800008020e6c>] __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:630
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/11/02 17:33 linux-6.1.y 08889840163e 6969b601 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 WARNING in bpf_prog_pack_free
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.