WARNING in gro_cell_poll

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/18 16:57
Subsystems: net
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+f0661448aa9511ce744a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: net: gro_cells: prevent enabling threaded NAPI on gro_cells
Patched on: [ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce 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-net-this-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 29d, last: 1d08h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
30be1843 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ WARNING in gro_cell_poll 2026/09/13 00:07 2026/09/13 00:07 2026/09/13 00:57 70a60e12
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Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH net v3] net: gro_cells: prevent enabling threaded NAPI on gro_cells 3 (3) 2026/10/08 18:10
[PATCH net v2] net: gro_cells: prevent enabling threaded NAPI on gro_cells 4 (4) 2026/10/06 01:15
[PATCH net] net: gro_cells: prevent enabling threaded NAPI on gro_cells 5 (5) 2026/09/22 18:03
[syzbot] [net?] WARNING in gro_cell_poll 0 (1) 2026/09/18 16:57

Sample crash report:
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DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(l->owner)
WARNING: ./include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:47 at local_lock_acquire include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:47 [inline], CPU#0: napi/tunl0-0/23871
WARNING: ./include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:47 at gro_cell_poll+0x5aa/0x6c0 net/core/gro_cells.c:66, CPU#0: napi/tunl0-0/23871
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 23871 Comm: napi/tunl0-0 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
RIP: 0010:local_lock_acquire include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:47 [inline]
RIP: 0010:gro_cell_poll+0x5b1/0x6c0 net/core/gro_cells.c:66
Code: 8d 3d a3 52 98 07 48 c7 c6 20 df 3c 8d 67 48 0f b9 3a e9 59 fe ff ff e8 cd 76 50 f8 48 8d 3d 96 52 98 07 48 c7 c6 e0 de 3c 8d <67> 48 0f b9 3a eb be 31 db e9 88 fd ff ff 48 8b 7c 24 20 e8 07 e2
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000795fb70 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000200
RDX: ffff88803325a580 RSI: ffffffff8d3cdee0 RDI: ffffffff915420a0
RBP: ffffe8ffffda5be8 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffffff9b9a85c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888123b4f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fb293a4e000 CR3: 00000000345cd000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xaf/0x450 net/core/dev.c:7798
 napi_threaded_poll_loop+0x52f/0x870 net/core/dev.c:7918
 napi_threaded_poll+0x3a8/0x4b0 net/core/dev.c:7973
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	8d 3d a3 52 98 07    	lea    0x79852a3(%rip),%edi        # 0x79852a9
   6:	48 c7 c6 20 df 3c 8d 	mov    $0xffffffff8d3cdf20,%rsi
   d:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi
  12:	e9 59 fe ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffe70
  17:	e8 cd 76 50 f8       	call   0xf85076e9
  1c:	48 8d 3d 96 52 98 07 	lea    0x7985296(%rip),%rdi        # 0x79852b9
  23:	48 c7 c6 e0 de 3c 8d 	mov    $0xffffffff8d3cdee0,%rsi
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	eb be                	jmp    0xffffffef
  31:	31 db                	xor    %ebx,%ebx
  33:	e9 88 fd ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffdc0
  38:	48 8b 7c 24 20       	mov    0x20(%rsp),%rdi
  3d:	e8                   	.byte 0xe8
  3e:	07                   	(bad)
  3f:	e2                   	.byte 0xe2

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/29 04:42 upstream 72d3fcf802c4 7bf4ea23 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in gro_cell_poll
2026/09/11 00:36 upstream 08df884136f1 1fe56c0a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in gro_cell_poll
2026/10/09 00:23 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 71c3e5409eef b2734a59 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in gro_cell_poll
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.