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WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
syzkaller #0 Tainted: G             L     
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net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:3395 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
locks held by syz.0.5253/26290: 2, last CPU#0:
 #0: ffffffff9aeec4e0 (nfnl_subsys_ctnetlink_exp){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: nfnl_lock net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:96 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff9aeec4e0 (nfnl_subsys_ctnetlink_exp){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0xa69/0x12b0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:293
 #1: ffffffff8ea74d58 (nf_conntrack_expect_lock){+...}-{3:3}, at: spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:353 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8ea74d58 (nf_conntrack_expect_lock){+...}-{3:3}, at: nf_ct_expect_iterate_net+0x38/0x180 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c:623

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 26290 Comm: syz.0.5253 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x140/0x1d0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6972
 expect_iter_name+0xfb/0x100 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:3395
 nf_ct_expect_iterate_net+0xf2/0x180 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c:633
 ctnetlink_del_expect+0x45d/0x640 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:3457
 nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0xcc2/0x12b0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:300
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2575
 nfnetlink_rcv+0x2b9/0x28c0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:667
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7bd/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1364
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1919
 sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x13a/0x180 net/socket.c:800
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x54e/0x850 net/socket.c:2713
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2767
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2799 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2804 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2802 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1b1/0x290 net/socket.c:2802
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f98dc99e159
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:00007f98dd866028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f98dcc25fa0 RCX: 00007f98dc99e159
RDX: 0000000020000080 RSI: 0000200000000180 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f98dca3506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f98dcc26038 R14: 00007f98dcc25fa0 R15: 00007f98dcd4fa48
 </TASK>