BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/04 22:23
Subsystems: block
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+95fdab36405e5ffdb680@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10d, last: 1d19h
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
61cc072d repro-c Reproduced: ✅ BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page 2026/09/09 20:28 2026/09/09 20:28 2026/09/09 21:21 b31349d1
e047dc92 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page 2026/09/02 01:02 2026/09/02 01:02 2026/09/02 01:38 587f6b29
Discussions (1)
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[syzbot] [block?] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page 0 (2) 2026/09/09 21:35
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/09 21:22 12m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 893e11787f78e43b534e252249ac3fff4d1333f8 report job log log

Sample crash report:
null_blk: disk syzdev created
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/sched/mm.h:322
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 6031, name: syz-executor254
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
locks held by syz-executor254/6031: 1, last CPU#0:
 #0: ffffffff8edec2e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:309 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8edec2e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:849 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8edec2e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: blk_mq_dispatch_queue_requests+0x148/0x7c0 block/blk-mq.c:2872
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6031 Comm: syz-executor254 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 __might_resched.cold+0x1dc/0x222 kernel/sched/core.c:9256
 might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:322 [inline]
 slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4636 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4974 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3e3/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5559
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 null_alloc_page drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:878 [inline]
 null_insert_page+0x10b/0x6c0 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1027
 copy_to_nullb drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1165 [inline]
 null_transfer drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1279 [inline]
 null_handle_data_transfer+0x7df/0xe20 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1308
 null_handle_memory_backed drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1388 [inline]
 null_process_cmd+0x1e3/0x290 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1442
 null_handle_cmd drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1465 [inline]
 null_queue_rq+0x8e4/0xfb0 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1711
 null_queue_rqs+0xe9/0x2f0 drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:1725
 __blk_mq_flush_list block/blk-mq.c:2827 [inline]
 __blk_mq_flush_list+0x9a/0xc0 block/blk-mq.c:2823
 blk_mq_dispatch_queue_requests+0x184/0x7c0 block/blk-mq.c:2872
 blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x1f2/0x600 block/blk-mq.c:2960
 __blk_flush_plug+0x2c4/0x4b0 block/blk-core.c:1270
 blk_finish_plug+0x5c/0xa0 block/blk-core.c:1297
 blkdev_writepages+0xf6/0x150 block/fops.c:488
 do_writepages+0x278/0x600 mm/page-writeback.c:2560
 filemap_writeback+0x22d/0x2e0 mm/filemap.c:387
 filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:412 [inline]
 file_write_and_wait_range+0xcd/0x140 mm/filemap.c:786
 blkdev_fsync+0x6c/0xd0 block/fops.c:596
 vfs_fsync_range fs/sync.c:186 [inline]
 vfs_fsync fs/sync.c:200 [inline]
 do_fsync+0xbf/0x220 fs/sync.c:211
 __do_sys_fsync fs/sync.c:216 [inline]
 __se_sys_fsync fs/sync.c:214 [inline]
 __x64_sys_fsync+0x32/0x50 fs/sync.c:214
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f756122f3b7
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 98 1d 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007fffc74cf400 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000555566674400 RCX: 00007f756122f3b7
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007f756126bae3
R13: 00007fffc74cf450 R14: 00007f7561268060 R15: 00007f7561268140
 </TASK>

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/09 21:34 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 893e11787f78 587f6b29 .config console log report C ci-qemu-upstream BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page
2026/09/02 04:28 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci f1b8fa82cab7 587f6b29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page
2026/08/31 22:13 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci f1b8fa82cab7 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in null_insert_page
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.