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WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
5.15.185-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
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net/sched/sch_api.c:304 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
4 locks held by ksoftirqd/1/20:
 #0: ffffffff8c11bfa0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x9/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:312
 #1: ffff8880776ed948 (dev->qdisc_running_key ?: &qdisc_running_key){+...}-{0:0}, at: net_tx_action+0x6bc/0x870 net/core/dev.c:5128
 #2: ffff8880776ed908 (&sch->q.lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:363 [inline]
 #2: ffff8880776ed908 (&sch->q.lock){+.-.}-{2:2}, at: sch_direct_xmit+0x305/0x4a0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:354
 #3: ffffffff8c11bfa0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x5/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:311

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.15.185-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 qdisc_lookup+0xa6/0x650 net/sched/sch_api.c:304
 qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog+0x213/0x4e0 net/sched/sch_api.c:800
 codel_qdisc_dequeue+0x1523/0x2100 net/sched/sch_codel.c:102
 qdisc_peek_dequeued+0x6e/0x1f0 include/net/sch_generic.h:1115
 tbf_dequeue+0x7d/0xce0 net/sched/sch_tbf.c:265
 dequeue_skb net/sched/sch_generic.c:292 [inline]
 qdisc_restart net/sched/sch_generic.c:397 [inline]
 __qdisc_run+0x237/0x1480 net/sched/sch_generic.c:415
 qdisc_run+0x103/0x2f0 include/net/pkt_sched.h:132
 net_tx_action+0x6bc/0x870 net/core/dev.c:5128
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 run_ksoftirqd+0x98/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:943
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x4f6/0x970 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>