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BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in netif_rx_mode_run

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/29 22:03
Subsystems: net
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+b54df935b5872a351231@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: 5eec4427b89c bridge: Fix sleep in atomic context in netlink path
Patched on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-usb], missing on: [ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce]
First crash: 9d20h, last: 9d20h
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4475e07d-6ce5-4276-8384-918953a8ef60 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in netif_rx_mode_run 2026/06/02 12:58 2026/06/02 12:58 2026/06/02 13:51 1095583bae1d2729a3b4be301cb6ddc85ced9e38
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[syzbot] [net?] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in netif_rx_mode_run 1 (2) 2026/06/01 15:37

Sample crash report:
netlink: 28 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `syz.8.1045'.
vlan2: left promiscuous mode
geneve0: left promiscuous mode
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:1262
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 13679, name: syz.8.1045
preempt_count: 201, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
2 locks held by syz.8.1045/13679:
 #0: ffff800089b97600 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:80 [inline]
 #0: ffff800089b97600 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x38/0x10c net/core/rtnetlink.c:341
 #1: ffff0000d6170e58 (&br->lock){+.-.}-{3:3}, at: spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:348 [inline]
 #1: ffff0000d6170e58 (&br->lock){+.-.}-{3:3}, at: br_port_slave_changelink+0x40/0x15c net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1212
Preemption disabled at:
[<ffff8000857ffa50>] spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:348 [inline]
[<ffff8000857ffa50>] br_port_slave_changelink+0x40/0x15c net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1212
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 13679 Comm: syz.8.1045 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
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+0x350/0x4ac kernel/sched/core.c:9163
 __might_sleep+0x84/0xdc kernel/sched/core.c:9092
 netif_rx_mode_run+0x124/0xb64 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:1262
 netif_rx_mode_sync+0x2c/0xbc net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:1428
 dev_set_promiscuity+0x110/0x1fc net/core/dev_api.c:289
 br_port_clear_promisc net/bridge/br_if.c:135 [inline]
 br_manage_promisc+0x2c0/0x33c net/bridge/br_if.c:172
 nbp_update_port_count+0xf8/0x148 net/bridge/br_if.c:242
 br_port_flags_change+0x60/0xa8 net/bridge/br_if.c:747
 br_setport+0xac4/0x1230 net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1000
 br_port_slave_changelink+0x134/0x15c net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1213
 rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3793 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3973 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0xf80/0x113c net/core/rtnetlink.c:4110
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x66c/0x9c8 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6996
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x22c/0x410 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x38 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7023
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x610/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x63c/0x920 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0xc8/0x138 net/socket.c:802
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x418/0x70c net/socket.c:2698
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x198/0x224 net/socket.c:2752
 __sys_sendmsg+0x160/0x214 net/socket.c:2784
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x80/0x94 net/socket.c:2787
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x244 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0xe8/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:121
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 el0_svc+0x64/0x260 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:740
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x48/0x148 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:759
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:594
geneve0: entered promiscuous mode
bridge0: port 2(bridge_slave_1) entered disabled state
bridge_slave_1: left allmulticast mode
bridge_slave_1: left promiscuous mode
bridge0: port 2(bridge_slave_1) entered disabled state

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/25 21:51 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 4b4362973b6f c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in netif_rx_mode_run
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.