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KMSAN: uninit-value in pwq_dec_nr_in_flight

Status: closed as invalid on 2025/10/27 21:17
Subsystems: kernel
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First crash: 13d, last: 13d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 BUG: corrupted list in pwq_dec_nr_in_flight 8 1 1296d 1296d 0/2 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/07/20 00:33
android-5-10 BUG: corrupted list in pwq_dec_nr_in_flight (2) 8 1 1201d 1201d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/23 00:15

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pwq_dec_nr_active kernel/workqueue.c:1972 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x620/0x1d70 kernel/workqueue.c:1997
 pwq_dec_nr_active kernel/workqueue.c:1972 [inline]
 pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x620/0x1d70 kernel/workqueue.c:1997
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3320 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x171b/0x1d80 kernel/workqueue.c:3346
 worker_thread+0xedf/0x1590 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
 kthread+0xd5c/0xf00 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x1f5/0x4c0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Uninit was created at:
 __netns_tracker_alloc include/net/net_namespace.h:362 [inline]
 sk_alloc+0x5de/0x8a0 net/core/sock.c:2311
 __netlink_create net/netlink/af_netlink.c:628 [inline]
 __netlink_kernel_create+0x19b/0xcc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2020
 netlink_kernel_create include/linux/netlink.h:62 [inline]
 iscsi_transport_init+0x285/0x4e0 drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c:4983
 do_one_initcall+0x237/0xb60 init/main.c:1283
 do_initcall_level+0x157/0x2e0 init/main.c:1345
 do_initcalls+0x176/0x310 init/main.c:1361
 do_basic_setup+0x1d/0x30 init/main.c:1380
 kernel_init_freeable+0x275/0x4a0 init/main.c:1593
 kernel_init+0x2f/0x5e0 init/main.c:1483
 ret_from_fork+0x1f5/0x4c0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3703 Comm: kworker/u8:11 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(none) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Workqueue:  0x0
 (events_unbound)
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/25 05:04 upstream 566771afc7a8 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in pwq_dec_nr_in_flight
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.