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WARNING in __alloc_skb

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/07/14 09:57
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+bf12cb89f95bee8e5efd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d20h, last: 2d20h
Bug presence (1)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/07/16 upstream (ToT) 155a3c003e55 C [report] WARNING in __alloc_skb
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in __alloc_skb (3) ppp -1 C 2 527d 527d 25/29 fixed on 2024/03/29 01:33
upstream WARNING in __alloc_skb arm-msm net -1 C error 24 1590d 1602d 20/29 fixed on 2021/04/09 19:46
linux-6.1 WARNING in __alloc_skb origin:upstream -1 C done 2 616d 616d 3/3 fixed on 2023/12/11 10:30
upstream WARNING in __alloc_skb (2) ppp -1 C done 2 598d 613d 25/29 fixed on 2024/01/20 21:18

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20 at mm/page_alloc.c:5449 current_gfp_context include/linux/sched/mm.h:-1 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20 at mm/page_alloc.c:5449 __alloc_pages+0x391/0x470 mm/page_alloc.c:5461
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.15.187-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x391/0x470 mm/page_alloc.c:5449
Code: 31 ff e9 b2 fe ff ff e8 bd fd f5 07 44 89 e1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 50 fd ff ff 4c 89 e7 e8 44 ac 09 00 e9 43 fd ff ff <0f> 0b 45 31 ff e9 ef fe ff ff 65 44 8b 2d 75 75 4e 7e 41 83 fd 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000da77c0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffc90000da7800 RBX: 1ffff920001b4efc RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000028 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90000da7828
RBP: ffffc90000da78a8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffc90000da7800
R10: fffff520001b4f05 R11: 1ffff920001b4f00 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000060a20 R15: 0000000000000014
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000561a89084138 CR3: 000000001f93a000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:570 [inline]
 alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:584 [inline]
 kmalloc_large_node+0x7d/0x190 mm/slub.c:4421
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x22e/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:4944
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:364 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x25d/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:427
 __netdev_alloc_skb+0x103/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:494
 rx_submit+0x100/0xa50 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:-1
 rx_alloc_submit+0xa6/0x130 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1533
 usbnet_bh+0x959/0xcd0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1595
 tasklet_action_common+0x298/0x400 kernel/softirq.c:806
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 run_ksoftirqd+0x98/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:943
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x4f6/0x970 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/14 09:56 linux-5.15.y 2f693b607545 3cda49cf .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in __alloc_skb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.