BUG: workqueue leaked atomic, lock or RCU: ksoftirqd/NUM[NUM] (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/09/09 05:50
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+9b25b5d931e13234f586@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d03h, last: 4d03h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
90128335 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ BUG: workqueue leaked atomic, lock or RCU: ksoftirqd/NUM[NUM] (2) 2026/09/07 00:01 2026/09/07 00:01 2026/09/07 00:25 4f7b22a0
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream BUG: workqueue leaked atomic, lock or RCU: ksoftirqd/NUM[NUM] kernel -1 1 359d 355d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/14 03:11

Sample crash report:
BUG: workqueue leaked atomic, lock or RCU: ksoftirqd/0[15]
     preempt=0x00000000 lock=4->0 RCU=2->2 workfn=usb_giveback_urb_bh
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 15 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3417 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x12c7/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
 bh_worker+0x47f/0x8e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3782
 tasklet_action+0xc/0x70 kernel/softirq.c:997
 handle_softirqs+0x1da/0x6d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
 run_ksoftirqd+0x53/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:1108
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x565/0xa70 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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
2026/09/05 05:47 upstream 654ae5d73c05 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root BUG: workqueue leaked atomic, lock or RCU: ksoftirqd/NUM[NUM]
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.