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BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/22 06:27
Bug presence: origin:lts
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Reported-by: syzbot+b894e067a04eb2a0b2ce@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 191d, last: 7d11h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/02/22 lts (merge base) e45d5d41c134 C [report] BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/02/22 upstream (ToT) 189f164e573e C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc 1 C done done 53 839d 870d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/06 04:01
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc origin:lts 1 C done done 254 928d 983d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/09 01:01
linux-5.15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc origin:upstream 1 C error 1 1017d 1017d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/11 01:53
android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc (2) origin:lts 1 C 3 10d 10d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/05 09:26
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc 1 3 609d 647d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/23 00:42
linux-6.1 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc origin:upstream 1 C done 1 1016d 1016d 3/3 fixed on 2023/07/10 11:22
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc 1 C done done 314 929d 983d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/07 07:54
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc net 1 C done 626 9d14h 2056d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/07/29 05:53
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc (2) origin:upstream 1 C error 20 65d 493d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/11/08 00:04
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc origin:lts-only 1 C error 23 15d 579d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/08/13 15:46
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc (2) 1 C 81 11d 191d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/05 07:56
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc 1 1 269d 269d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/27 23:42
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in tc_modify_qdisc (2) 1 1 98d 98d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/12/07 12:53

Sample crash report:
RBP: 00007f6cbdecbb39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6cbe0aefac R14: 00007f6cbe0aefa0 R15: 00007f6cbe0aefa0
 </TASK>
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 225s! [syz.2.17:373]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 373 Comm: syz.2.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:qdisc_lookup+0x22d/0x4e0 net/sched/sch_api.c:-1
Code: 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 7c b1 4c 89 e7 e8 bb 71 ce fd eb a7 e8 64 43 8f fd e9 ff 01 00 00 e8 5a 43 8f fd eb 05 e8 53 43 8f fd <4c> 8b 75 d0 49 81 c6 50 03 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002096ec8 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff83da8925 RBX: 00000000ffff0000 RCX: ffff88810e060000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffff0000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90002096ef8 R08: ffff88810e060000 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffffffffffd8 R15: ffff88810f964000
FS:  000055556145a500(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000c006d86000 CR3: 000000011fd6f000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog+0x111/0x340 net/sched/sch_api.c:784
 fq_change+0xc5d/0x1250 net/sched/sch_fq.c:915
 fq_init+0x3e3/0x5d0 net/sched/sch_fq.c:963
 qdisc_create+0x803/0x11b0 net/sched/sch_api.c:1256
 tc_modify_qdisc+0x8ad/0x1570 net/sched/sch_api.c:-1
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xa4b/0xce0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5650
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1f5/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5668
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x876/0xa40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
 netlink_sendmsg+0x879/0xb80 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1922
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5b7/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2435
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2489
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2518 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2527 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2525 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x206/0x2f0 net/socket.c:2525
 x64_sys_call+0x4b/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f6cbde35629
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:00007ffdfc2a9f68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6cbe0aefa0 RCX: 00007f6cbde35629
RDX: 0000000020040080 RSI: 0000200000001200 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f6cbdecbb39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6cbe0aefac R14: 00007f6cbe0aefa0 R15: 00007f6cbe0aefa0
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:729

Crashes (14):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/22 06:19 android13-5.15-lts 13d6d33696ef 6e7b5511 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/03/08 19:53 android13-5.15-lts 4fc7ded323e3 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/02/25 00:04 android13-5.15-lts 13d6d33696ef 787dfb7c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/02/24 13:43 android13-5.15-lts 13d6d33696ef 96b1aa46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/02/21 22:24 android13-5.15-lts 13d6d33696ef 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/02/15 01:01 android13-5.15-lts 13d6d33696ef 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/02/08 17:49 android13-5.15-lts b5b90d209864 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/02/07 07:27 android13-5.15-lts 6b88270ef707 f20fc9f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2026/01/09 07:36 android13-5.15-lts 050dc55b0457 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2025/12/21 05:26 android13-5.15-lts 050dc55b0457 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2025/12/20 21:47 android13-5.15-lts 050dc55b0457 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2025/12/13 06:47 android13-5.15-lts 057fdbf6d3c7 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2025/12/04 07:12 android13-5.15-lts 057fdbf6d3c7 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
2025/09/06 05:54 android13-5.15-lts da3dbfdd15be d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tc_modify_qdisc
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.