kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/26 18:23
Subsystems: netfilter
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+5a8667f002726fc59f88@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d01h, last: 4d18h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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d34ffab7 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ✅ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum 2026/09/23 02:53 2026/09/23 02:53 2026/09/23 03:30 5207b90e
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[PATCH nf] netfilter: ip6t_SYNPROXY: check TCP header before verifying checksum 1 (1) 2026/09/26 20:45
[syzbot] [netfilter?] kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum 0 (1) 2026/09/26 18:23

Sample crash report:
ip6_tables: ip6tables: counters copy to user failed while replacing table
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kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:3606!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5631 Comm: syz-executor206 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:skb_checksum+0x8b2/0x8c0 net/core/skbuff.c:3606
Code: c4 3d 8c f8 e9 43 f9 ff ff 44 89 f9 80 e1 07 38 c1 0f 8c 59 f9 ff ff 4c 89 ff e8 49 3d 8c f8 e9 4c f9 ff ff e8 ef 35 1c f8 90 <0f> 0b 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a3f000 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff89ab9c91 RBX: 000000000000053c RCX: ffff88807f8abe80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000053c RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff88807f8abe80 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000003c R14: 000000000000003c R15: 0000000000000578
FS:  0000555590f26400(0000) GS:ffff888124cca000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000556b4bcc5000 CR3: 000000006f904000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 nf_ip6_checksum+0x1bd/0x320 net/netfilter/utils.c:89
 synproxy_tg6+0x1a4/0x6e0 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_SYNPROXY.c:21
 ip6t_do_table+0xd37/0x15b0 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:366
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:165 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xc5/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:619
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:280 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x21f/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:323
 ip6_input+0x16a/0x270 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:545
 NF_HOOK+0x336/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6264 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6377 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6463 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb+0x278/0xbf0 net/core/dev.c:6522
 tun_rx_batched+0x1de/0x790 drivers/net/tun.c:1571
 tun_get_user+0x2be0/0x44d0 drivers/net/tun.c:2045
 tun_chr_write_iter+0x113/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:2091
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x612/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 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: 0033:0x7f993fdff367
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 78 1e 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffcd131e8b0 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000555590f26400 RCX: 00007f993fdff367
RDX: 000000000000004a RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f993fe6ebe0 R15: 0000000000000002
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:skb_checksum+0x8b2/0x8c0 net/core/skbuff.c:3606
Code: c4 3d 8c f8 e9 43 f9 ff ff 44 89 f9 80 e1 07 38 c1 0f 8c 59 f9 ff ff 4c 89 ff e8 49 3d 8c f8 e9 4c f9 ff ff e8 ef 35 1c f8 90 <0f> 0b 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a3f000 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff89ab9c91 RBX: 000000000000053c RCX: ffff88807f8abe80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000053c RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff88807f8abe80 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000003c R14: 000000000000003c R15: 0000000000000578
FS:  0000555590f26400(0000) GS:ffff888124cca000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000556b4bcc5000 CR3: 000000006f904000 CR4: 00000000003526f0

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/23 00:43 net-next eabc76156e86 3e2106e5 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum
2026/09/22 23:35 net-next eabc76156e86 3e2106e5 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum
2026/09/22 22:05 net-next eabc76156e86 3e2106e5 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum
2026/09/22 20:46 net-next eabc76156e86 3e2106e5 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum
2026/09/22 19:31 net-next eabc76156e86 3e2106e5 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum
2026/09/22 18:18 net-next eabc76156e86 3e2106e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce kernel BUG in nf_ip6_checksum
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.