BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/04 22:23
Subsystems: block
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+95fdab36405e5ffdb680@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d01h, last: 2d19h
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e047dc92 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page 2026/09/02 01:02 2026/09/02 01:02 2026/09/02 01:38 587f6b29
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[syzbot] [block?] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page 0 (1) 2026/09/04 22:23

Sample crash report:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/sched/mm.h:323
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 8414, name: syz.7.670
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
1 lock held by syz.7.670/8414:
 #0: ffff800088d271a0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #0: ffff800088d271a0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:840 [inline]
 #0: ffff800088d271a0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: blk_mq_dispatch_queue_requests+0x110/0x6d4 block/blk-mq.c:2872
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8414 Comm: syz.7.670 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/07/2026
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:499 (C)
 __dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:94
 dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:120
 dump_stack+0x1c/0x28 lib/dump_stack.c:129
 __might_resched+0x354/0x4c0 kernel/sched/core.c:9197
 __might_sleep+0x84/0xdc kernel/sched/core.c:9126
 might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:323 [inline]
 slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4537 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4897 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x88/0x5ec mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 null_alloc_page drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:870 [inline]
 null_insert_page+0x94/0x4e8 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1019
 copy_to_nullb drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1157 [inline]
 null_transfer drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1271 [inline]
 null_handle_data_transfer drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1300 [inline]
 null_handle_memory_backed+0x474/0x9d8 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1380
 null_process_cmd+0x118/0x1b0 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1434
 null_handle_cmd drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1457 [inline]
 null_queue_rq+0x788/0xa88 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1703
 null_queue_rqs+0x108/0x204 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1717
 __blk_mq_flush_list block/blk-mq.c:2827 [inline]
 blk_mq_dispatch_queue_requests+0x33c/0x6d4 block/blk-mq.c:2872
 blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x37c/0x494 block/blk-mq.c:2960
 __blk_flush_plug+0x364/0x440 block/blk-core.c:1266
 blk_finish_plug+0x68/0x90 block/blk-core.c:1293
 blkdev_writepages+0x128/0x184 block/fops.c:486
 do_writepages+0x284/0x47c mm/page-writeback.c:2571
 filemap_writeback+0x230/0x2bc mm/filemap.c:387
 filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:412 [inline]
 filemap_write_and_wait_range+0x90/0x114 mm/filemap.c:684
 filemap_write_and_wait include/linux/pagemap.h:65 [inline]
 sync_blockdev block/bdev.c:276 [inline]
 bdev_release+0x114/0x328 block/bdev.c:1129
 blkdev_release+0x20/0x34 block/fops.c:680
 __fput+0x338/0x74c fs/file_table.c:512
 fput_close_sync+0x10c/0x278 fs/file_table.c:617
 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1511 [inline]
 __se_sys_close fs/open.c:1496 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_close+0x80/0x110 fs/open.c:1496
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x244 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0xec/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:121
 do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x5c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 el0_svc+0x64/0x260 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:758
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x44/0x104 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:777
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:590

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/02 04:28 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci f1b8fa82cab7 587f6b29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page
2026/08/31 22:13 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci f1b8fa82cab7 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.