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possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/15 07:28
Subsystems: net
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+9bb8bd77f3966641f298@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d07h, last: now
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[syzbot] [net?] possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings 0 (1) 2026/06/15 07:28

Sample crash report:
8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device bond0
8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device team0
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
syzkaller #0 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
syz.3.1475/10822 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: netdev_lock include/linux/netdevice.h:2837 [inline]
ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: netdev_lock_ops include/net/netdev_lock.h:42 [inline]
ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x109/0x250 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:463

but task is already holding lock:
ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: netdev_lock include/linux/netdevice.h:2837 [inline]
ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: netdev_lock_ops include/net/netdev_lock.h:42 [inline]
ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: do_setlink+0x3d4/0x4670 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3117
and the lock comparison function returns 0:

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(&dev_instance_lock_key#3);
  lock(&dev_instance_lock_key#3);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

 May be due to missing lock nesting notation

2 locks held by syz.3.1475/10822:
 #0: ffffffff8fdbd640 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:80 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8fdbd640 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:341 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8fdbd640 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_newlink+0x8a3/0x1bd0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4150
 #1: ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: netdev_lock include/linux/netdevice.h:2837 [inline]
 #1: ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: netdev_lock_ops include/net/netdev_lock.h:42 [inline]
 #1: ffff888034254e60 (&dev_instance_lock_key#3){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: do_setlink+0x3d4/0x4670 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3117

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 10822 Comm: syz.3.1475 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_deadlock_bug+0x279/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3041
 check_deadlock kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3093 [inline]
 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3895 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0x24bf/0x2cd0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237
 lock_acquire+0x106/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:646 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x19d/0x1590 kernel/locking/mutex.c:820
 netdev_lock include/linux/netdevice.h:2837 [inline]
 netdev_lock_ops include/net/netdev_lock.h:42 [inline]
 __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x109/0x250 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:463
 bond_update_speed_duplex drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:801 [inline]
 bond_slave_netdev_event drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:3982 [inline]
 bond_netdev_event+0x643/0xf80 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:4089
 notifier_call_chain+0x1a5/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2288 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2302 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x1aa/0x310 net/core/dev.c:9793
 netif_change_flags+0xde/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:9822
 dev_change_flags+0x128/0x260 net/core/dev_api.c:68
 vlan_device_event+0x1b4e/0x1f00 net/8021q/vlan.c:494
 notifier_call_chain+0x1a5/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2288 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2302 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x1aa/0x310 net/core/dev.c:9793
 netif_change_flags+0xde/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:9822
 do_setlink+0xdd6/0x4670 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3207
 rtnl_group_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3855 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4023 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x148e/0x1bd0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4151
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x802/0xc00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7068
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7bb/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x9b9/0xa20 net/socket.c:2699
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2753
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2785 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2790 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2788 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2788
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbbc959ce59
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:00007fbbca4ee028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbbc9815fa0 RCX: 00007fbbc959ce59
RDX: 0000000004000000 RSI: 0000200000000200 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fbbc9632d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fbbc9816038 R14: 00007fbbc9815fa0 R15: 00007ffc623729b8
 </TASK>

Crashes (115):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/17 10:49 net-next d954a67a7dfa 62cc6db3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/17 09:01 net-next d954a67a7dfa 62cc6db3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/17 07:40 net-next d954a67a7dfa 62cc6db3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/17 04:20 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/17 02:50 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/17 01:16 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/17 00:13 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 23:11 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 22:10 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 20:52 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 19:47 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 15:46 net-next 72dfa4700f78 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 15:27 net-next 72dfa4700f78 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 13:31 net-next 72dfa4700f78 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 12:08 net-next 72dfa4700f78 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 10:47 net-next 72dfa4700f78 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 09:08 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 08:00 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 07:53 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 06:52 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 05:30 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 03:53 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 02:16 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 01:12 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 01:09 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 00:53 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 00:45 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 00:18 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/16 00:04 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 23:11 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 22:59 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 22:46 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 22:35 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 21:39 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 20:00 net-next 75983f837d20 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 18:37 net-next 2319688890d9 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 17:04 net-next 2319688890d9 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 16:18 net-next 2319688890d9 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 16:18 net-next 2319688890d9 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 16:18 net-next 2319688890d9 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 15:30 net-next 2319688890d9 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 15:16 net-next 2319688890d9 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 15:11 net-next 2319688890d9 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
2026/06/15 04:38 net-next 2319688890d9 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce possible deadlock in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.