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BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/05 09:26
Bug presence: origin:lts
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Reported-by: syzbot+52b0ee3e9925623eb458@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 93d, last: 7d02h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/03/05 lts (merge base) 0182cb5b74ee C [report] BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/03/05 upstream (ToT) c107785c7e8d C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc 1 C done done 53 835d 867d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/06 04:01
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc (2) origin:lts 1 C 14 3d16h 18d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/22 06:27
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc origin:lts 1 C done done 254 924d 979d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/09 01:01
linux-5.15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc origin:upstream 1 C error 1 1013d 1013d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/11 01:53
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc 1 3 605d 644d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/23 00:42
linux-6.1 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc origin:upstream 1 C done 1 1012d 1012d 3/3 fixed on 2023/07/10 11:22
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc 1 C done done 314 926d 979d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/07 07:54
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc net 1 C done 626 5d19h 2052d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/07/29 05:53
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc (2) origin:upstream 1 C error 20 61d 489d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/11/08 00:04
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc origin:lts-only 1 C error 23 12d 575d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/08/13 15:46
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc (2) 1 C 81 7d22h 188d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/05 07:56
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc 1 1 265d 265d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/27 23:42
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc (2) 1 1 94d 94d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/12/07 12:53

Sample crash report:
RBP: 00007fc76c232bd9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fc76c416128 R14: 00007fc76c416090 R15: 00007fffc6c8b3d8
 </TASK>
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 287s! [syz.4.21:427]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 427 Comm: syz.4.21 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:preempt_count arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:27 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:182 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:245 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_cmp4+0x10/0x90 kernel/kcov.c:287
Code: 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 b8 7d 47 2f 67 55 48 89 e5 48 8b 45 08 65 48 8b 15 00 ff 90 7e <65> 8b 0d 01 ff 90 7e 81 e1 00 01 ff 00 74 11 81 f9 00 01 00 00 75
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e76e38 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff84091355 RBX: 00000000ffff0000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888111a83cc0 RSI: 00000000ffff0000 RDI: 00000000ffff0000
RBP: ffffc90000e76e38 R08: ffff888111a83cc0 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888113b9e000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88811845d000 R15: 00000000ffff0000
FS:  00007fc76d1286c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fcb2748aff8 CR3: 000000010d798000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 qdisc_match_from_root net/sched/sch_api.c:268 [inline]
 qdisc_lookup_rcu+0x305/0x4e0 net/sched/sch_api.c:330
 qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog+0x111/0x360 net/sched/sch_api.c:792
 fq_change+0xc4c/0x1240 net/sched/sch_fq.c:912
 fq_init+0x3e3/0x5d0 net/sched/sch_fq.c:960
 qdisc_create+0x895/0x1180 net/sched/sch_api.c:1306
 tc_modify_qdisc+0x900/0x19d0 net/sched/sch_api.c:-1
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xb3b/0xe00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6150
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x20f/0x460 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2521
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6168
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x8ab/0xa30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b9/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1873
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5cc/0x990 net/socket.c:2508
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a2/0x360 net/socket.c:2562
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2591 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2600 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2598 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x205/0x2d0 net/socket.c:2598
 x64_sys_call+0x171/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fc76c19c799
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fc76d128028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fc76c416090 RCX: 00007fc76c19c799
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000200000001200 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fc76c232bd9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fc76c416128 R14: 00007fc76c416090 R15: 00007fffc6c8b3d8
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:741

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/05 09:22 android14-6.1 6bfa51973214 a9fe5c9e .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2025/12/17 04:01 android14-6.1 66807f9400bc d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2025/12/08 21:50 android14-6.1 5ddae867b428 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.