kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/08/02 19:40
Reported-by: syzbot+a201e6d7925a55f666b9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 50d, last: 48d
▶ ▼ 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 548 1d21h 1440d 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 1756d 1996d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/05 15:05
linux-6.1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 29 9d13h 59d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/24 21:58
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) 2 syz 1 3238d 3238d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/12/06 10:59
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 3331d 3331d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/08/11 14:48
linux-4.14 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 1304d 1410d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/11/11 22:11
android-49 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 1 3299d 3299d 0/3 closed as invalid on 2017/09/12 18:13
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (2) kernel 2 syz 347 3196d 3190d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2017/12/28 09:40
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (6) kernel 2 2 1244d 1255d 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 2214d 2214d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/14 11:56
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (4) kernel 2 syz, C done 19 2380d 2996d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/03/18 10:26
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (3) kernel 2 syz, C 9 3076d 3188d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/06/14 08:46
android-414 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 3 2612d 2721d 0/1 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/10 16:04
upstream kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! (7) kernel 2 4063 639d 657d 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 391d 476d 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 48d 59d 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 39 9d10h 59d 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 876 2d06h 1236d 0/2 premoderation: reported C repro on 2023/05/05 07:30
android-44 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 2 syz, C 8 2856d 2719d 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 2612d 2719d 0/3 public: reported C repro on 2019/04/13 00:00

Sample crash report:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000007
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G        W          syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 dump_stack+0x15/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:113
 panic+0x280/0x698 kernel/panic.c:339
 do_exit+0x1ffd/0x2850 kernel/exit.c:847
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2e0 kernel/exit.c:1030
 get_signal+0x167c/0x1700 kernel/signal.c:2895
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xd1/0x11c0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:871
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x7a/0xb0 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x87/0xd0 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x10 kernel/entry/common.c:316
 irqentry_exit+0x12/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:419
 exc_page_fault+0x5e/0xb0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1520
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0033:0x7fa1e5a4e407
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7fa1e5a4e3dd.
RSP: 002b:00007ffcd00c5ec0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000011 RBX: 00007fa1e58fec80 RCX: 00007fa1e5a4e407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007fa1e5c68498
RBP: 00007fa1e5c68490 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fa1e5c68490
R13: 00007ffcd00c5f3c R14: 00007fa1e5ca0000 R15: 0000555eaeaa5d98
 </TASK>
Kernel Offset: disabled
Rebooting in 86400 seconds..

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/04 17:03 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
2026/08/04 16:54 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
2026/08/04 16:19 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
2026/08/04 15:00 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
2026/08/02 19:39 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.