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kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2022/11/11 22:11
Reported-by: syzbot+20afa8b61409231ea709@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1345d, last: 1240d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (16)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-15 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! origin:upstream missing-backport 2 C error inconclusive 538 451d 1375d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2022/10/13 06:16
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (5) kernel 2 C done inconclusive 9 1692d 1931d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/05 15:05
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) 2 syz 1 3174d 3174d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/12/06 10:59
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 1 3267d 3266d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/08/11 14:48
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 1 3234d 3234d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/09/12 18:13
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) kernel 2 syz 347 3132d 3125d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/12/28 09:40
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (6) kernel 2 2 1180d 1191d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/25 19:19
android-54 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 1 2149d 2149d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/14 11:56
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (4) kernel 2 C done 19 2315d 2931d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/03/18 10:26
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) kernel 2 C 9 3011d 3123d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/06/14 08:46
android-414 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 3 2547d 2657d 0/1 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/10 16:04
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (7) kernel 2 4063 574d 592d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/10 07:38
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (8) kernel 2 2 326d 412d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/25 11:57
android-5-10 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C error inconclusive 868 447d 1171d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2023/05/05 07:30
android-44 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 C 8 2791d 2654d 0/2 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) 2 C 22 2547d 2654d 0/3 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00
▶ ▼ Fix bisection attempts (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2023/02/25 17:07 27m bisect fix linux-4.14.y OK (0) job log log
2023/01/25 06:15 24m bisect fix linux-4.14.y OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.14.299-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x1b2/0x281 lib/dump_stack.c:58
 panic+0x1f9/0x42d kernel/panic.c:183
 do_exit.cold+0x69/0x18c kernel/exit.c:837
 do_group_exit+0x100/0x2e0 kernel/exit.c:965
 get_signal+0x38d/0x1ca0 kernel/signal.c:2412
 do_signal+0x7c/0x1550 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:792
 exit_to_usermode_loop+0x160/0x200 arch/x86/entry/common.c:160
 prepare_exit_to_usermode arch/x86/entry/common.c:199 [inline]
 syscall_return_slowpath arch/x86/entry/common.c:270 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4a3/0x640 arch/x86/entry/common.c:297
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5e/0xd3
Kernel Offset: disabled
Rebooting in 86400 seconds..

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2022/11/11 22:11 linux-4.14.y e911713e40ca f42ee5d8 .config console log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-4-14 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.