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WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/02 17:52
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+268eaa983b2fb27e5e38@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 23h41m, last: 13m
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[syzbot] [fs?] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare 0 (2) 2025/07/02 22:25

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
6.16.0-rc4-next-20250702-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
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fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:934 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
3 locks held by syz-executor380/5849:
 #0: ffff88807c496428 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write+0x41/0x90 fs/namespace.c:557
 #1: ffff88803391cc30 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock_shared include/linux/fs.h:884 [inline]
 #1: ffff88803391cc30 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10){++++}-{4:4}, at: open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3806 [inline]
 #1: ffff88803391cc30 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10){++++}-{4:4}, at: path_openat+0x8cb/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4043
 #2: ffff888077fdf560 (&lockref->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline]
 #2: ffff888077fdf560 (&lockref->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: d_wait_lookup fs/dcache.c:2537 [inline]
 #2: ffff888077fdf560 (&lockref->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: d_alloc_parallel+0xbe4/0x15e0 fs/dcache.c:2624

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5849 Comm: syz-executor380 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-next-20250702-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x140/0x1d0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6871
 proc_sys_compare+0x27d/0x2c0 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:934
 d_same_name fs/dcache.c:2179 [inline]
 d_alloc_parallel+0x1060/0x15e0 fs/dcache.c:2637
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3630 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3807 [inline]
 path_openat+0xa3b/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4043
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4073
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1434
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1449 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1465 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1460 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1460
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f6a7f31fb11
Code: 75 57 89 f0 25 00 00 41 00 3d 00 00 41 00 74 49 80 3d 3a 03 08 00 00 74 6d 89 da 48 89 ee bf 9c ff ff ff b8 01 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 93 00 00 00 48 8b 54 24 28 64 48 2b 14 25
RSP: 002b:00007ffc32d38280 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000080001 RCX: 00007f6a7f31fb11
RDX: 0000000000080001 RSI: 00007f6a7f3636e6 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 00007f6a7f3636e6 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffc32d38320
R13: 585858582e72656c R14: 00007ffc32d388a0 R15: 0000000000000001
 </TASK>
chnl_net:caif_netlink_parms(): no params data found
bridge0: port 1(bridge_slave_0) entered blocking state
bridge0: port 1(bridge_slave_0) entered disabled state
bridge_slave_0: entered allmulticast mode
bridge_slave_0: entered promiscuous mode
bridge0: port 2(bridge_slave_1) entered blocking state
bridge0: port 2(bridge_slave_1) entered disabled state
bridge_slave_1: entered allmulticast mode
bridge_slave_1: entered promiscuous mode
bond0: (slave bond_slave_0): Enslaving as an active interface with an up link
bond0: (slave bond_slave_1): Enslaving as an active interface with an up link
team0: Port device team_slave_0 added
team0: Port device team_slave_1 added
batman_adv: batadv0: Adding interface: batadv_slave_0
batman_adv: batadv0: The MTU of interface batadv_slave_0 is too small (1500) to handle the transport of batman-adv packets. Packets going over this interface will be fragmented on layer2 which could impact the performance. Setting the MTU to 1560 would solve the problem.
batman_adv: batadv0: Not using interface batadv_slave_0 (retrying later): interface not active
batman_adv: batadv0: Adding interface: batadv_slave_1
batman_adv: batadv0: The MTU of interface batadv_slave_1 is too small (1500) to handle the transport of batman-adv packets. Packets going over this interface will be fragmented on layer2 which could impact the performance. Setting the MTU to 1560 would solve the problem.
batman_adv: batadv0: Not using interface batadv_slave_1 (retrying later): interface not active
hsr_slave_0: entered promiscuous mode
hsr_slave_1: entered promiscuous mode
debugfs: 'hsr0' already exists in 'hsr'
Cannot create hsr debugfs directory
netdevsim netdevsim0 netdevsim0: renamed from eth0
netdevsim netdevsim0 netdevsim1: renamed from eth1
netdevsim netdevsim0 netdevsim2: renamed from eth2
netdevsim netdevsim0 netdevsim3: renamed from eth3
8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device bond0
8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device team0
8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device batadv0

Crashes (292):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/03 02:30 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 01:56 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 00:45 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 00:23 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 22:25 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 07:27 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 05:05 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 02:31 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 01:42 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 01:33 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 23:50 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 23:29 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 22:21 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 19:00 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 16:28 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config strace log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 10:05 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 115ceea7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 09:02 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 115ceea7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 08:13 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 115ceea7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 07:15 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 06:14 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 06:10 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 04:54 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 03:33 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/03 01:27 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 22:51 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 21:53 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 20:42 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 20:40 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 19:36 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 17:43 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 17:28 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 16:07 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 15:33 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 14:32 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:33 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:30 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:27 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:21 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:20 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:19 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:14 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:14 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:14 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:11 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:11 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:05 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 13:02 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 12:57 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 12:42 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 12:42 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 12:31 linux-next 50c8770a42fa 0cd59a8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 12:16 linux-next 50c8770a42fa ffe4b334 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 12:07 linux-next 50c8770a42fa ffe4b334 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 12:01 linux-next 50c8770a42fa ffe4b334 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 11:59 linux-next 50c8770a42fa ffe4b334 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 11:57 linux-next 50c8770a42fa ffe4b334 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/02 11:51 linux-next 50c8770a42fa ffe4b334 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.