kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (4)

Status: closed as invalid on 2020/03/18 10:26
Subsystems: kernel
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First crash: 2986d, last: 2371d
Cause bisection: the issue happens on the oldest tested release (bisect log)
Crash: kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (20)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-15 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! origin:upstream missing-backport 2 syz, C error inconclusive 547 10d 1430d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2022/10/13 06:16
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (5) kernel 2 syz, C done inconclusive 9 1747d 1987d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/05 15:05
linux-6.1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 29 1h02m 50d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/24 21:58
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) 2 syz 1 3229d 3229d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/12/06 10:59
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 3322d 3322d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/08/11 14:48
android-6-1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 5 39d 41d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/08/02 19:40
linux-4.14 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 1295d 1401d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/11/11 22:11
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 3289d 3289d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/09/12 18:13
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) kernel 2 syz 347 3187d 3180d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/12/28 09:40
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (6) kernel 2 2 1235d 1246d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/25 19:19
android-54 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 2204d 2204d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/14 11:56
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) kernel 2 syz, C 9 3066d 3178d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/06/14 08:46
android-414 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 3 2602d 2712d 0/1 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/10 16:04
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (7) kernel 2 4063 629d 647d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/10 07:38
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (8) kernel 2 2 381d 467d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/25 11:57
linux-5.15 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz 18 38d 50d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/07/24 21:50
linux-6.6 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! origin:upstream 2 syz, C 38 31d 50d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/25 00:26
android-5-10 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C error inconclusive 875 47d 1226d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2023/05/05 07:30
android-44 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 8 2847d 2710d 0/2 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) 2 syz, C 22 2602d 2710d 0/3 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00
▶ ▼ Fix bisection attempts (5)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2020/03/17 00:31 24m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2020/02/12 00:43 25m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2020/01/13 00:19 23m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2019/12/11 04:55 25m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2019/08/09 09:40 28m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000005
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.20.0-rc4+ #131
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x244/0x39d lib/dump_stack.c:113
 panic+0x2ad/0x55c kernel/panic.c:188
 find_child_reaper kernel/exit.c:579 [inline]
 forget_original_parent.cold.17+0x7b/0xd5 kernel/exit.c:671
 exit_notify kernel/exit.c:708 [inline]
 do_exit+0x1b4b/0x26d0 kernel/exit.c:887
 do_group_exit+0x177/0x440 kernel/exit.c:970
 get_signal+0x8b0/0x1980 kernel/signal.c:2517
 do_signal+0x9c/0x21c0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:816
 exit_to_usermode_loop+0x2e5/0x380 arch/x86/entry/common.c:162
 prepare_exit_to_usermode arch/x86/entry/common.c:197 [inline]
 syscall_return_slowpath arch/x86/entry/common.c:268 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x6be/0x820 arch/x86/entry/common.c:293
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x7f66b4e1cdd3
Code: Bad RIP value.
RSP: 002b:00007fffe538fe38 EFLAGS: 00000346 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000017
RAX: fffffffffffffdfe RBX: 00007fffe538ffe0 RCX: 00007f66b4e1cdd3
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fffe5390190 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: 00007fffe5390190 R08: 00007fffe5390210 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000346 R12: 00000000ffffffff
R13: 00007fffe5390570 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
Kernel Offset: disabled
Rebooting in 86400 seconds..

Crashes (19):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2018/11/27 09:57 upstream 6f8b52ba442c ac912200 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root
2018/10/23 10:12 upstream ca9eb48fe01f ecb386fe .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root
2018/10/22 18:35 upstream 84df9525b0c2 ecb386fe .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root
2018/10/12 13:44 upstream 90ad18418c2d ba6ddb43 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root
2018/10/12 01:14 upstream 0778a9f2dd92 ba6ddb43 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root
2018/10/11 23:55 upstream 9dcd936c5312 ba6ddb43 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root
2018/08/14 08:47 upstream 7796916146b8 7a88b141 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root
2018/08/08 04:39 upstream 1236568ee3cb 1beb8136 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root
2018/07/30 20:13 upstream acb1872577b3 1a381291 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root
2018/07/15 16:38 upstream 37b5dca2898d 92a49505 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root
2018/07/12 05:13 upstream c25c74b7476e 2e0e3130 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root
2018/11/27 20:49 linux-next 442b8cea2477 4b6d14f2 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root
2018/08/14 08:20 linux-next 5ed5da74de9e 7a88b141 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root
2018/08/13 10:28 https://github.com/google/kmsan.git master 0cc51dc9a291 7a88b141 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kmsan-gce
2018/08/13 05:08 linux-next 4110b42356f3 7a88b141 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root
2018/08/09 05:17 https://github.com/google/kmsan.git master 0cc51dc9a291 2eeda842 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-kmsan-gce
2018/08/08 07:37 linux-next 2b769bb85b48 1beb8136 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root
2018/07/18 08:01 linux-next 1dcbe5f2c615 6d5bd5b5 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root
2018/07/10 06:53 linux-next d00d6d9a339d f25e5770 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.