WARNING in init_timer_key

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/10/18 02:46
Reported-by: syzbot+a887ad2e3ac36481ce67@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 11d, last: 11d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in init_timer_key wireless -1 syz, C done 2 1985d 2091d 20/29 fixed on 2021/11/10 00:50
upstream WARNING in init_timer_key (2) batman -1 1 1454d 1454d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2023/02/17 17:35
linux-5.15 WARNING in init_timer_key origin:lts-only -1 syz, C error 18 278d 656d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/01/11 14:11
linux-6.1 WARNING in init_timer_key origin:lts-only -1 syz, C inconclusive 19 2d07h 733d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/10/26 17:15

Sample crash report:
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ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object: ffff8880b8d28188 object type: timer_list hint: mce_timer_fn+0x0/0x2b0
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at lib/debugobjects.c:518 debug_print_object lib/debugobjects.c:515 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at lib/debugobjects.c:518 __debug_object_init+0x320/0x450 lib/debugobjects.c:692
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
RIP: 0010:debug_print_object lib/debugobjects.c:515 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__debug_object_init+0x320/0x450 lib/debugobjects.c:692
Code: a4 fd 4d 8b 4d 00 48 c7 c7 20 5b 1d 8b 48 c7 c6 20 59 1d 8b 4c 89 f2 8b 0c 24 4c 8b 44 24 08 41 57 e8 b4 89 15 fd 48 83 c4 08 <0f> 0b 4c 8b 7c 24 18 ff 05 23 ca 30 0b 41 83 fc 03 75 35 49 83 c7
RSP: 0000:ffffc90000187aa0 EFLAGS: 00010096
RAX: 5bddc2ceea96ef00 RBX: ffff8880b8d28188 RCX: ffff88801ce43c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffc900001877a7 R09: 1ffff92000030ef4
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000030ef5 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: ffffffff8accb260 R14: ffffffff8b1d5ca0 R15: ffffffff81358960
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000dd32000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 debug_timer_init kernel/time/timer.c:777 [inline]
 debug_init kernel/time/timer.c:825 [inline]
 init_timer_key+0x41/0x2a0 kernel/time/timer.c:869
 identify_cpu+0x2220/0x3b30 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:2068
 identify_secondary_cpu+0x2b/0x200 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:2125
 smp_store_cpu_info arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:442 [inline]
 ap_starting+0x169/0x270 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:201
 start_secondary+0x61/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:291
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/18 09:15 linux-6.6.y cecd39af8a1a 432c0077 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in init_timer_key
2026/10/18 06:01 linux-6.6.y cecd39af8a1a 432c0077 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in init_timer_key
2026/10/18 02:45 linux-6.6.y cecd39af8a1a 432c0077 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in init_timer_key
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.