WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/24 07:20
Subsystems: net
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+d5d0d598a4cfdfafdc3b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 113d, last: 1d00h
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462fb050 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ✅ WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init 2026/05/30 18:19 2026/05/30 18:19 2026/05/30 19:39 6b4a8443
7d36043f assessment-security 💥 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init 2026/05/14 11:21 2026/05/14 11:21 2026/05/14 11:22 6ccb967e
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[PATCH net] net: clear transport header during tunnel decapsulation 5 (5) 2026/07/09 05:00
[syzbot] [net?] WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init 0 (1) 2026/06/24 07:20

Sample crash report:
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len > ((int)(~0U >> 1))
WARNING: ./include/linux/skbuff.h:2864 at pskb_may_pull_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:2864 [inline], CPU#1: syz.1.5028/22797
WARNING: ./include/linux/skbuff.h:2864 at pskb_may_pull include/linux/skbuff.h:2882 [inline], CPU#1: syz.1.5028/22797
WARNING: ./include/linux/skbuff.h:2864 at qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init+0x4b4/0xa30 net/core/dev.c:4141, CPU#1: syz.1.5028/22797
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 22797 Comm: syz.1.5028 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:pskb_may_pull_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:2864 [inline]
RIP: 0010:pskb_may_pull include/linux/skbuff.h:2882 [inline]
RIP: 0010:qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init+0x4b4/0xa30 net/core/dev.c:4141
Code: 00 00 02 00 31 ff e8 9b 19 24 f8 81 e3 00 00 02 00 0f 85 fd 00 00 00 e8 4a 15 24 f8 45 89 e7 e9 2c ff ff ff e8 3d 15 24 f8 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 ee fd ff ff 44 89 e7 89 de e8 ea 16 24 f8 41 39 dc 0f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a08660 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffff89a2ff33 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: ffff88801deb9f00
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 00000000fffffffe RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff888075673500 R08: ffff8880462ec067 R09: 1ffff11008c5d80c
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1008c5d80d R12: 00000000fffffffe
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffff1100eace6bb R15: ffff88805720a558
FS:  00007f75f7a886c0(0000) GS:ffff88812504d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00002000002c4000 CR3: 0000000022ac6000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 sch_handle_ingress net/core/dev.c:4482 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x13aa/0x30b0 net/core/dev.c:6063
 __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x24d/0x830 net/core/dev.c:6287
 __netif_receive_skb_list net/core/dev.c:6354 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x995/0xcf0 net/core/dev.c:6445
 gro_normal_list include/net/gro.h:523 [inline]
 gro_flush_normal include/net/gro.h:531 [inline]
 napi_complete_done+0x299/0x730 net/core/dev.c:6813
 gro_cell_poll+0x5ab/0x5d0 net/core/gro_cells.c:74
 __napi_poll+0xaa/0x330 net/core/dev.c:7735
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7798 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x61d/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:7955
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 tun_rx_batched+0x616/0x790 drivers/net/tun.c:-1
 tun_get_user+0x2b44/0x4370 drivers/net/tun.c:1955
 tun_chr_write_iter+0x113/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:2001
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x612/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f75f6b9e019
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f75f7a88028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f75f6e25fa0 RCX: 00007f75f6b9e019
RDX: 000000000000007a RSI: 0000200000000240 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: 00007f75f6c3500c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f75f6e26038 R14: 00007f75f6e25fa0 R15: 00007f75f6f4fa48
 </TASK>

Crashes (41):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/31 07:46 upstream 3708dd948844 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/22 09:11 upstream 248951ddc14d b561ce9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/22 09:05 upstream 248951ddc14d b561ce9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/17 19:17 upstream 9c87e61e3c57 62cc6db3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/15 07:08 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/08/04 04:56 upstream c8e0d43058e6 a68cb31b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/28 08:32 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/21 23:11 upstream 8cd8cf7a07e5 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/20 09:15 upstream 1a3746ccbb0a 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/31 18:55 upstream 174914ea5513 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/23 11:52 upstream 4539944e5151 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/06 15:45 upstream 8e65320d91cd cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/30 09:10 upstream 9215e74f228f 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/19 16:32 upstream ab5fce87a778 2aa09d96 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/10 01:25 upstream a635d6748234 4167ee25 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/05 23:25 upstream 06121e12c27a cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/14 15:01 net 3f1f75536668 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/07 03:56 net 9e05e91a9a84 8e71ce95 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/06 11:12 net a0a558ca7e75 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/24 00:11 net e82d8cc4321c 042555ff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/18 15:43 net 7d8297e26b4e a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/18 07:48 net b85966adbf5d b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/25 14:28 net 87a1e0fe7776 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/22 10:51 net 68993ced0f61 e16cf9f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/08/06 18:01 net-next f37228367375 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/23 09:56 net-next 1df10cef2d1e 881ce5c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/16 11:15 net-next f6f3b36c15ed 27a8bd60 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/14 17:03 net-next f6f3b36c15ed 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/07/13 16:28 net-next f6f3b36c15ed a870962e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/25 14:11 net-next b85966adbf5d 432fd51a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/22 10:46 net-next b85966adbf5d 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/25 21:56 net-next 0f700d144b5a c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/14 11:38 net-next 1f8fd0fe5641 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/06 22:12 net-next 2281958e6007 cbcd9ea0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/05/03 21:34 net-next 98878ed91b68 a0d91488 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/04/23 22:09 net-next 1f5ffc672165 4c3406dc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/04/17 22:31 net-next 1f5ffc672165 24ecfc1e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/08/08 16:43 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ba5cc80fd326 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/30 16:24 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ff4c5a0de1f2 00e8b0fd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/29 16:33 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci dc59e4fea9d8 6a0c72dc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
2026/06/14 04:48 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 596d152bc5e3 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.