WARNING in process_one_work (2)

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/16 05:57
Reported-by: syzbot+cfd70907b3e618414560@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 54d, last: 18d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.14 WARNING in process_one_work -1 syz, C inconclusive 7 2306d 2541d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2019/10/25 11:01
linux-5.15 WARNING in process_one_work origin:upstream -1 syz error 291 165d 1301d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/06 10:25
linux-4.19 WARNING in process_one_work (2) -1 1 1497d 1497d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/02 02:07
linux-4.19 WARNING in process_one_work -1 syz, C done 9 1944d 2509d 1/1 fixed on 2021/07/14 12:04

Sample crash report:
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sysfs group 'power' not found for kobject 'bt0'
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1107 at fs/sysfs/group.c:281 sysfs_remove_group+0x177/0x290 fs/sysfs/group.c:279
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1107 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events delete_netdev
RIP: 0010:sysfs_remove_group+0x177/0x290 fs/sysfs/group.c:279
Code: 8b 1b 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 2b 2a d0 ff 49 8b 17 48 c7 c7 c0 b2 39 8a 48 89 de e8 89 2b c8 07 <0f> 0b 48 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 e8 43 f6 8a ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900052178a0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 43ef289c27220b00 RBX: ffffffff8a9cab60 RCX: ffff888021cc0000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900052179d0 R08: ffff8880b9133d7f R09: 1ffff110172267af
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10172267b0 R12: 1ffffffff1539570
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff888018384d98 R15: ffff88807756c608
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f3e9e869030 CR3: 0000000074946000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 device_del+0x2ab/0xa80 drivers/base/core.c:3592
 unregister_netdevice_many+0x1530/0x1a40 net/core/dev.c:11187
 unregister_netdevice_queue+0x2e1/0x320 net/core/dev.c:11093
 unregister_netdevice include/linux/netdevice.h:3047 [inline]
 lowpan_unregister_netdevice net/6lowpan/core.c:65 [inline]
 lowpan_unregister_netdev+0x18/0x20 net/6lowpan/core.c:73
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/21 16:31 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 853b104b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan WARNING in process_one_work
2026/08/16 05:57 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf WARNING in process_one_work
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.