WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/31 06:58
Subsystems: net
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+c0e99a1aa85a286d7a3b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d12h, last: 6d07h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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1 upstream 2026/07/31 10:06 Discussion 8977f559-3a7e-4bb5-b4d6-1196956260b6
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
8977f559 patching WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast 2026/07/31 07:04 2026/07/31 07:18 2026/07/31 08:11 aaffb173

			
		
9043257f assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast 2026/07/28 00:40 2026/07/28 00:40 2026/07/28 01:19 4cb2b096

			
		
Duplicate bugs (1)
Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_send_migrate_state net prio:normal 4 syz, C 18 2d20h 3d12h 0/29 closed as dup on 2026/07/31 10:05
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] xfrm: add missing RCU read lock in xfrm_send_migrate_state() 1 (1) 2026/07/31 10:06
[syzbot] [net?] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast 0 (1) 2026/07/31 06:58

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
syzkaller #0 Not tainted
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net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:1630 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by syz.0.17/5947:
 #0: ffff888029cda048 (&net->xfrm.xfrm_cfg_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x6a/0x90 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3928

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5947 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x13f/0x1d0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6876
 xfrm_nlmsg_multicast+0x1d8/0x1f0 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:1630
 xfrm_send_migrate_state+0x870/0xae0 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3340
 xfrm_do_migrate_state+0x1749/0x1e90 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3507
 xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x7a8/0xf30 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3907
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x79/0x90 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3929
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7f5/0x990 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x13a/0x180 net/socket.c:775
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x565/0x870 net/socket.c:2684
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2738
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2770 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2775 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2773 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x290 net/socket.c:2773
 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: 0033:0x7fb235fede99
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:00007ffc10a8b768 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb236275fa0 RCX: 00007fb235fede99
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fb236083eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb236275fac R14: 00007fb236275fa0 R15: 00007fb236275fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (108):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/27 08:04 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:53 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:47 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 23:26 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 22:27 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 21:46 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 20:55 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 19:49 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 18:56 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 18:04 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 17:17 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 17:13 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 16:08 net 53658c6f3682 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 14:03 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 13:01 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 12:02 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 11:22 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 10:31 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 09:52 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 09:18 net 53658c6f3682 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 09:11 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 08:22 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:41 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 23:30 net-next 04026c998c24 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 22:46 net-next 04026c998c24 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 21:36 net-next 04026c998c24 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 20:41 net-next 04026c998c24 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 16:23 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 14:12 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 12:10 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 11:46 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 11:22 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 10:57 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 10:32 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 10:05 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 09:51 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 09:14 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 09:11 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 08:30 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 08:24 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:44 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:37 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 08:34 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c 492bab15 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/28 10:50 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/28 09:21 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:13 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:13 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:00 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:00 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:00 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:00 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:00 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/28 12:00 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:57 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:54 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:01 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:01 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:01 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:01 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/28 07:33 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 45ae1df4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:00 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:59 bpf 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:58 net 53658c6f3682 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:58 net 53658c6f3682 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 13:46 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:59 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:59 bpf-next 4748a67f7111 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:55 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 06:55 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 08:36 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
2026/07/27 07:33 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in xfrm_nlmsg_multicast
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.