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KMSAN: uninit-value in psi_task_change

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/10 14:14
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+6a41c3d25697203c245a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d03h, last: 6d03h
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[syzbot] [kernel?] KMSAN: uninit-value in psi_task_change 0 (1) 2025/10/10 14:14

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in kernfs_ino include/linux/kernfs.h:368 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in cgroup_ino include/linux/cgroup.h:590 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in cgroup_psi include/linux/psi.h:37 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in task_psi_group kernel/sched/psi.c:889 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in psi_task_change+0x4ba/0x710 kernel/sched/psi.c:921
 kernfs_ino include/linux/kernfs.h:368 [inline]
 cgroup_ino include/linux/cgroup.h:590 [inline]
 cgroup_psi include/linux/psi.h:37 [inline]
 task_psi_group kernel/sched/psi.c:889 [inline]
 psi_task_change+0x4ba/0x710 kernel/sched/psi.c:921
 psi_enqueue kernel/sched/stats.h:166 [inline]
 enqueue_task+0x32d/0x390 kernel/sched/core.c:2094
 activate_task kernel/sched/core.c:2134 [inline]
 ttwu_do_activate+0x1dd/0x9d0 kernel/sched/core.c:3706
 ttwu_queue kernel/sched/core.c:3969 [inline]
 try_to_wake_up+0xf83/0x1f50 kernel/sched/core.c:4293
 wake_up_process+0x2a/0x40 kernel/sched/core.c:4424
 hrtimer_wakeup+0x85/0xd0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2013
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1777 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x559/0xd80 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1841
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x456/0xb80 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1903
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1041 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa7/0x420 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1058
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7f/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702
 finish_task_switch+0x184/0x920 kernel/sched/core.c:5193
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5328 [inline]
 __schedule+0x2331/0x7790 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7011 [inline]
 schedule+0x17d/0x3c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7026
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x6c/0x370 kernel/entry/common.c:31
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x1e3/0x210 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:
 __netns_tracker_alloc include/net/net_namespace.h:362 [inline]
 sk_alloc+0x5de/0x8a0 net/core/sock.c:2311
 __netlink_create net/netlink/af_netlink.c:628 [inline]
 __netlink_kernel_create+0x19b/0xcc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2020
 netlink_kernel_create include/linux/netlink.h:62 [inline]
 rtnetlink_net_init+0x6b/0x110 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7038
 ops_init+0x2b3/0x9f0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137
 __register_pernet_operations net/core/net_namespace.c:1314 [inline]
 register_pernet_operations+0x649/0xfa0 net/core/net_namespace.c:1391
 register_pernet_subsys+0x5b/0xa0 net/core/net_namespace.c:1432
 rtnetlink_init+0x29/0xa0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7093
 netlink_proto_init+0x1f8/0x280 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2948
 do_one_initcall+0x237/0xb60 init/main.c:1283
 do_initcall_level+0x157/0x2e0 init/main.c:1345
 do_initcalls+0x176/0x310 init/main.c:1361
 do_basic_setup+0x1d/0x30 init/main.c:1380
 kernel_init_freeable+0x275/0x4a0 init/main.c:1593
 kernel_init+0x2f/0x5e0 init/main.c:1483
 ret_from_fork+0x233/0x380 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 31572 Comm: syz.3.9106 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(none) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/06 14:12 upstream 9b0d551bcc05 91305dbe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in psi_task_change
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.