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WARNING in perf_event_throttle_group

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/10 18:19
Subsystems: perf
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Reported-by: syzbot+a945e9d15c8a49a7a7f0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d23h, last: 1d15h
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) [merge commit]:
commit 63eb28bb1402891b1ad2be02a530f29a9dd7f1cd
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu Jul 31 00:14:01 2025 +0000

  Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Crash: WARNING in perf_event_throttle_group (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
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[syzbot] [perf?] WARNING in perf_event_throttle_group 0 (1) 2025/11/10 18:19

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7448 at kernel/events/core.c:2703 perf_event_throttle_group+0x375/0x3d0 kernel/events/core.c:2703
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7448 Comm: syz.0.1231 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:perf_event_throttle_group+0x375/0x3d0 kernel/events/core.c:2703
Code: 8a 32 00 e9 ec fe ff ff e8 38 d5 cc ff eb 05 e8 31 d5 cc ff 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc e8 1c d5 cc ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 54 fe ff ff 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c c9
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000ca07490 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff81f34174 RBX: ffff88806fddf6c0 RCX: ffff888026e3bc80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffc9000ca07137 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000ca07120 R11: fffff52001940e27 R12: ffff88806fddf8d8
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88806fddf8f8 R15: ffffffff8dff1598
FS:  0000555573ca6500(0000) GS:ffff88812623d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000040 CR3: 0000000028a98000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __perf_event_account_interrupt+0x23c/0x250 kernel/events/core.c:10180
 __perf_event_overflow+0x105/0xe40 kernel/events/core.c:10327
 perf_swevent_overflow kernel/events/core.c:10467 [inline]
 perf_swevent_event+0x530/0x5e0 kernel/events/core.c:10505
 perf_tp_event+0x4f6/0x1380 kernel/events/core.c:11012
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xee/0x170 kernel/events/core.c:10936
 do_perf_trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:24 [inline]
 perf_trace_lock_acquire+0x335/0x410 include/trace/events/lock.h:24
 __do_trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:24 [inline]
 trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:24 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x311/0x360 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5831
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 futex_hash+0x5d/0x2d0 kernel/futex/core.c:308
 class_hb_constructor kernel/futex/futex.h:240 [inline]
 futex_wake+0x161/0x560 kernel/futex/waitwake.c:172
 do_futex+0x395/0x420 kernel/futex/syscalls.c:135
 __do_sys_futex kernel/futex/syscalls.c:207 [inline]
 __se_sys_futex+0x36f/0x400 kernel/futex/syscalls.c:188
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdfcf98f6c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe276dac28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdfcfbe5fa8 RCX: 00007fdfcf98f6c9
RDX: 00000000000f4240 RSI: 0000000000000081 RDI: 00007fdfcfbe5fac
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 3fffffffffffffff R09: 0000000a276daf1f
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fdfcfbe5fac
R13: 00007fdfcfbe5fa0 R14: 0000000000000843 R15: 0000000000000003
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/10 02:48 bpf e427054ae7bc 4e1406b4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in perf_event_throttle_group
2025/11/09 23:19 bpf e427054ae7bc 4e1406b4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in perf_event_throttle_group
2025/11/09 21:30 bpf e427054ae7bc 4e1406b4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in perf_event_throttle_group
2025/11/09 19:57 bpf e427054ae7bc 4e1406b4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in perf_event_throttle_group
2025/11/09 18:29 bpf e427054ae7bc 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in perf_event_throttle_group
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.