BUG: soft lockup in sys_bpf (4)

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/09/26 08:05
Reported-by: syzbot+a380dd996b5dc5f20323@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d04h, last: 1d04h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (14)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in sys_bpf 1 1 590d 590d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/15 12:21
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_bpf (5) bpf 1 syz, C unreliable 56 1708d 1801d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:34
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_bpf origin:upstream 1 syz, C error 108 744d 912d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/29 12:25
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_bpf (9) bpf net 1 syz, C error 74 612d 851d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/03 05:23
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_bpf (3) 1 2 97d 100d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/09/19 15:02
upstream BUG: soft lockup in sys_bpf prio:low mm 1 syz, C error 244 13h11m 522d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/23 05:48
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_bpf 1 2 825d 829d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/22 11:37
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_bpf (2) 1 1 258d 258d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/12 02:06
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_bpf origin:lts-only 1 syz, C inconclusive 103 22h50m 413d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/10 11:50
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_bpf (2) origin:lts-only 1 syz, C error 302 1d06h 900d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/09 19:57
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_bpf 1 2 1024d 1067d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/16 17:33
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_bpf (8) bpf 1 1 1043d 1043d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/17 03:10
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_bpf origin:lts-only 1 syz, C inconclusive 286 13h13m 890d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/20 10:27
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_bpf (6) net 1 7 1520d 1670d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/28 06:32

Sample crash report:
RBP: 00007f9e38a0706b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9e38bf8038 R14: 00007f9e38bf7fa0 R15: 00007ffc8661cb88
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 123s! [syz.1.7531:31675]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 31675 Comm: syz.1.7531 Tainted: G        W         syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x0/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:181
Code: 00 00 00 0f 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb e8 13 00 00 00 48 8b 3d 5c c4 5e 05 48 89 de e8 74 e2 39 00 5b 5d c3 00 <55> 48 89 e5 48 8b 45 08 65 48 8b 0d c0 b8 9d 7e 65 8b 15 c5 b8 9d
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000131f8e8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88814ab0d010 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: ffffc90004947000 RSI: 000000000007ffff RDI: 0000000000080000
RBP: ffffc9000131f930 R08: ffffc9000131f5b7 R09: ffffc9000131f5a0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000263eb7 R12: ffff88814ab0d3e8
R13: ffffffff86606db8 R14: ffff8881116e1810 R15: ffff88814ab0d000
FS:  00007f9e373c96c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f9e37387d58 CR3: 000000012817c000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 perf_event_ksymbol+0x28e/0x340 kernel/events/core.c:8778
 perf_event_bpf_emit_ksymbols kernel/events/core.c:8834 [inline]
 perf_event_bpf_event+0x33e/0x540 kernel/events/core.c:8865
 bpf_prog_load+0x1146/0x14e0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:2261
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4435 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf+0x49a/0x740 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4391
 __x64_sys_bpf+0x7b/0x90 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4391
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f9e38970159
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:00007f9e373c9028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9e38bf7fa0 RCX: 00007f9e38970159
RDX: 0000000000000048 RSI: 0000200000000200 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f9e38a0706b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9e38bf8038 R14: 00007f9e38bf7fa0 R15: 00007ffc8661cb88
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 31690 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Tainted: G        W         syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:229 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_single+0x209/0x490 kernel/smp.c:517
Code: 48 44 89 f6 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 63 90 0a 00 41 83 e6 01 49 bc 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 0a e8 9e 8c 0a 00 e9 a4 00 00 00 f3 90 <f7> 44 24 48 01 00 00 00 0f 84 8f 00 00 00 e8 84 8c 0a 00 eb e9 e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e57700 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff815a282c RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88811de8e400
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90000e577f0 R08: ffff8881f7057647 R09: 1ffff1103ee0aec8
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed103ee0aec9 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 1ffff920001caee4
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f543541d29e CR3: 000000000640f000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 smp_call_function_many_cond+0x8f5/0x9d0 kernel/smp.c:653
 smp_call_function_many kernel/smp.c:716 [inline]
 smp_call_function kernel/smp.c:738 [inline]
 on_each_cpu+0xab/0x180 kernel/smp.c:837
 text_poke_sync arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:1568 [inline]
 text_poke_bp_batch+0x1cb/0x5f0 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:1768
 text_poke_flush arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:1959 [inline]
 text_poke_finish+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:1966
 arch_jump_label_transform_apply+0x15/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:126
 __jump_label_update+0x38f/0x3b0 kernel/jump_label.c:459
 jump_label_update+0x34c/0x3e0 kernel/jump_label.c:825
 static_key_disable_cpuslocked+0xc5/0x1a0 kernel/jump_label.c:207
 static_key_disable+0x1a/0x30 kernel/jump_label.c:215
 toggle_allocation_gate+0x3a5/0x440 mm/kfence/core.c:638
 process_one_work+0x6fd/0xbc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2301
 worker_thread+0xa8e/0x13c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2447
 kthread+0x324/0x3b0 kernel/kthread.c:313
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/26 08:04 android13-5.10-lts c5d8ec7afea2 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10-perf BUG: soft lockup in sys_bpf
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.