From: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: brauner@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, oleg@redhat.com,
tglx@kernel.org, npiggin@gmail.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, kees@kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
include@grrlz.net,
syzbot+8fdf0d8e10bdde1c2e88@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] reboot: enable IRQs before do_exit in the halt and power off fallback
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:52:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260712125300.31501-1-include@grrlz.net> (raw)
The reboot syscall calls do_exit(0) after kernel_halt() or
kernel_power_off(). Those are expected to stop the machine and not
return. When they do return (no PM info, power off failed), the
shutdown path has already disabled interrupts: native_machine_shutdown()
calls local_irq_disable() on x86, and do_exit() then hits its
WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()) at kernel/exit.c:930.
do_exit only warns by design; make_task_dead() is the path that fixes
the IRQs disabled state (commit 001c28e57187 ("exit: Detect and fix irq
disabled state in oops")). The reboot fallback is not an oops and wants
a clean do_exit, so enable IRQs at the two call sites instead, matching
the make_task_dead pattern.
Splat from syzbot:
ACPI: PM: Preparing to enter system sleep state S5
kvm: exiting hardware virtualization
reboot: Power down
------------[ cut here ]------------
irqs_disabled()
WARNING: kernel/exit.c:930 at do_exit+0x1cf7/0x2ae0 kernel/exit.c:930, CPU#0: init/6193
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6193 Comm: init Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__do_sys_reboot+0x36e/0x400 kernel/reboot.c:784
do_syscall_64+0x115/0x840 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
Fixes: 001c28e57187 ("exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops")
Reported-by: syzbot+8fdf0d8e10bdde1c2e88@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8fdf0d8e10bdde1c2e88
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69f5ec0c.050a0220.312cd3.0023.GAE@google.com/T/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
---
kernel/reboot.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/reboot.c b/kernel/reboot.c
index bed6967bfa96..7e8ebb470721 100644
--- a/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -777,10 +777,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(reboot, int, magic1, int, magic2, unsigned int, cmd,
case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT:
kernel_halt();
+ /* kernel_halt() was expected to not return. */
+ if (irqs_disabled()) {
+ pr_info("reboot: halt returned with irqs disabled\n");
+ local_irq_enable();
+ }
do_exit(0);
case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF:
kernel_power_off();
+ /* kernel_power_off() was expected to not return. */
+ if (irqs_disabled()) {
+ pr_info("reboot: power off returned with irqs disabled\n");
+ local_irq_enable();
+ }
do_exit(0);
break;
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-12 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-12 12:52 Bradley Morgan [this message]
2026-07-13 2:54 ` [PATCH] reboot: enable IRQs before do_exit in the halt and power off fallback Eric W. Biederman
2026-07-13 5:57 ` Bradley Morgan
2026-07-13 19:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
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