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WARNING in __run_timer_base (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/06 18:20
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+b65655bc21a8355d65c8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 114d, last: 114d
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
7a6d5cf5-c3ff-44fa-a6d1-06bc4266e8df assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ✅ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ✅ WARNING in __run_timer_base (2) 2026/05/31 06:45 2026/05/31 06:45 2026/05/31 07:46 6b4a844333e83556da95d61d7f207e7ef5cd4bc6

			
		
9e307823-3a2f-45bc-8e48-ca255a995005 assessment-security 💥 WARNING in __run_timer_base (2) 2026/05/14 14:29 2026/05/14 14:29 2026/05/14 14:30 6ccb967e465e832a7bfd7a116ad00d52a0923a5d
failed to run ["git" "pull" "origin" "HEAD" "--depth=1" "--allow-unrelated-histories"]: exit status 128
From /app/workdir/repo/linux
 * branch                HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating files:  ...
truncated to first 200 bytes; open job for full error
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[syzbot] [kernel?] WARNING in __run_timer_base (2) 0 (1) 2026/03/02 18:23
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in __run_timer_base kernel -1 11 226d 287d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/05 21:57

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: kernel/time/timer.c:1786 at expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1786 [inline], CPU#0: ktimers/0/16
WARNING: kernel/time/timer.c:1786 at __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2373 [inline], CPU#0: ktimers/0/16
WARNING: kernel/time/timer.c:1786 at __run_timer_base+0x7d2/0x9f0 kernel/time/timer.c:2385, CPU#0: ktimers/0/16
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16 Comm: ktimers/0 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1786 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2373 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__run_timer_base+0x7d2/0x9f0 kernel/time/timer.c:2385
Code: 27 4d 85 e4 74 7d e8 4d ee 13 00 e9 48 fe ff ff e8 43 ee 13 00 48 8b 5c 24 30 43 80 7c 35 00 00 75 d4 eb da e8 2f ee 13 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 48 8b 44 24 48 42 80 3c 30 00 48 8b 5c 24 30 74 a9 48 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000157b40 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: ffffffff81b064e1 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88801caa8000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000100
RBP: ffffc90000157cb8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000100
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1ed4517 R12: ffff88803c019f38
R13: 1ffff9200002af81 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc90000157c08
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888126343000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f718355de06 CR3: 0000000059208000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2394 [inline]
 run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
 handle_softirqs+0x1de/0x6f0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 run_ktimerd+0x69/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:1138
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x541/0xa50 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/26 18:19 upstream f4d0ec0aa20d ffa54287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in __run_timer_base
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.