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KMSAN: uninit-value in timer_delete_sync

Status: closed as invalid on 2025/09/03 17:36
Subsystems: kernel
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First crash: 39d, last: 39d

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in get_timer_cpu_base kernel/time/timer.c:925 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in get_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:944 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lock_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:1003 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __try_to_del_timer_sync+0x274/0x400 kernel/time/timer.c:1459
 get_timer_cpu_base kernel/time/timer.c:925 [inline]
 get_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:944 [inline]
 lock_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:1003 [inline]
 __try_to_del_timer_sync+0x274/0x400 kernel/time/timer.c:1459
 __timer_delete_sync kernel/time/timer.c:1620 [inline]
 timer_delete_sync+0xca/0x1b0 kernel/time/timer.c:1675
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x240 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:100
 kcompactd+0x470/0x2340 mm/compaction.c:3187
 kthread+0xd59/0xf00 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x1e3/0x310 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Local variable timer created at:
 schedule_timeout+0x44/0x240 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:63
 kcompactd+0x470/0x2340 mm/compaction.c:3187

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 34 Comm: kcompactd1 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(none) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/31 00:20 upstream 11e7861d680c 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root KMSAN: uninit-value in timer_delete_sync
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.