============================================ WARNING: possible recursive locking detected syzkaller #0 Not tainted -------------------------------------------- syz.3.881/7329 is trying to acquire lock: ffffffff8d3f31d8 (qp_broker_list.mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x114/0xf00 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2095 but task is already holding lock: ffffffff8d3f31d8 (qp_broker_list.mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x114/0xf00 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2095 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(qp_broker_list.mutex); lock(qp_broker_list.mutex); *** DEADLOCK *** May be due to missing lock nesting notation 1 lock held by syz.3.881/7329: #0: ffffffff8d3f31d8 (qp_broker_list.mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x114/0xf00 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2095 stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 7329 Comm: syz.3.881 Not tainted syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106 __lock_acquire+0x123e/0x7d10 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:-1 lock_acquire+0x1bb/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5662 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:603 [inline] __mutex_lock+0x12d/0xaf0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:747 vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x114/0xf00 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2095 ctx_free_ctx drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:444 [inline] kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline] vmci_ctx_put+0x629/0xc40 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:497 vmci_ctx_enqueue_datagram+0x3a7/0x420 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:360 dg_dispatch_as_host drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:276 [inline] vmci_datagram_dispatch+0x449/0xc10 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:340 qp_notify_peer drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1481 [inline] vmci_qp_broker_detach+0x8ca/0xf00 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:2188 ctx_free_ctx drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:444 [inline] kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline] vmci_ctx_put+0x629/0xc40 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:497 vmci_host_close+0x97/0x160 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c:143 __fput+0x22c/0x920 fs/file_table.c:320 task_work_run+0x1d0/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:203 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:292 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:303 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2 RIP: 0033:0x7f5261b9c819 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:00007f5262ac1028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f5261e16090 RCX: 00007f5261b9c819 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: 0000000000000005 RBP: 00007f5261c32c91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007f5261e16128 R14: 00007f5261e16090 R15: 00007ffe66de8238