WARNING in kthread_affine_node

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/01 00:45
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+37ca7ae3e98cb65c3209@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d14h, last: 4d00h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
d72e191a patching 💥 WARNING in kthread_affine_node 2026/08/02 19:13 2026/08/02 19:13 2026/08/02 19:24 e611ffe1
reproducer did not crash
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[syzbot] [kernel?] WARNING in kthread_affine_node 0 (1) 2026/08/01 00:45

Sample crash report:
 alloc_cpumask_var_node+0xfc/0x138 lib/cpumask.c:35
 alloc_cpumask_var include/linux/cpumask.h:1054 [inline]
 zalloc_cpumask_var include/linux/cpumask.h:1060 [inline]
 kthread_affine_node+0x148/0x2e8 kernel/kthread.c:358
 kthread+0x29c/0x3d4 kernel/kthread.c:430
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:842
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WARNING: kernel/kthread.c:359 at kthread_affine_node+0x200/0x2e8 kernel/kthread.c:359, CPU#0: napi/wg2-0/5207
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5207 Comm: napi/wg2-0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/02/2026
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : kthread_affine_node+0x200/0x2e8 kernel/kthread.c:359
lr : kthread_affine_node+0x200/0x2e8 kernel/kthread.c:359
sp : ffff800095fe7d80
x29: ffff800095fe7df0 x28: 1fffe000198cf3ad x27: 1fffe000198cf483
x26: ffff0000cc67a418 x25: 1fffe000198cf3ad x24: dfff800000000000
x23: ffff700012bfcfb0 x22: ffff800095fe7d80 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: ffff0000f1573400 x19: ffff0000cc679d40 x18: 1fffe00035bc5428
x17: 70202c31206c6176 x16: 0000000000000001 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000001 x12: 0000000000000004
x11: ffff800080156ee8 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000008 x3 : ffff800080131d60
x2 : 0000000000000080 x1 : ffff0000cc679d40 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 kthread_affine_node+0x200/0x2e8 kernel/kthread.c:359 (P)
 kthread+0x29c/0x3d4 kernel/kthread.c:430
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:842
irq event stamp: 20
hardirqs last  enabled at (19): [<ffff800080131d48>] dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:123
hardirqs last disabled at (20): [<ffff8000868dfe78>] el1_brk64+0x20/0x54 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:425
softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffff8000802edeb0>] copy_process+0x13a4/0x32e8 kernel/fork.c:2238
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/28 23:50 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 365f9c7a6b81 19622d9d .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in kthread_affine_node
2026/07/30 13:07 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 365f9c7a6b81 2377cd3d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in kthread_affine_node
2026/07/30 12:42 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 365f9c7a6b81 2377cd3d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in kthread_affine_node
2026/07/30 04:47 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 365f9c7a6b81 cb1587ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in kthread_affine_node
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.