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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_setsockopt

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/13 08:47
Reported-by: syzbot+035e355f20769f1e35a0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 115d, last: 19d
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_setsockopt (2) kvm 1 2 1776d 1817d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/10/27 00:02
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_setsockopt kvm 1 1 1938d 1938d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/05/17 17:51
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_setsockopt (4) prio:high mm 1 C done inconclusive 80 10d 560d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/11/25 08:53
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_setsockopt (3) net 1 4 1649d 1675d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in sys_setsockopt 1 3 1871d 1898d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/08/23 07:10

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P29037/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=195049, q=105 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:21736 pid:29037 ppid:29023  flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbf/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7010
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:815 [inline]
RIP: 0010:is_bpf_text_address+0x1fb/0x2a0 kernel/bpf/core.c:743
Code: ff 4c 8b 24 24 8b 05 b4 73 4c 0b 44 39 e0 74 0a e8 ca a7 f2 ff e9 e4 fe ff ff e8 20 71 f2 08 89 c5 31 ff 89 c6 e8 65 ab f2 ff <85> ed 74 10 e8 8c 6a dc ff 84 c0 74 0e e8 a3 a7 f2 ff eb 56 e8 9c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004ccf588 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81947feb RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88801d6c9e00 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff2238ea0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2238ea1 R12: 0000000000000ba0
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 00007f878239e69a R15: 0000000000000000
 kernel_text_address+0xa0/0xd0 kernel/extable.c:125
 __kernel_text_address+0xd/0x30 kernel/extable.c:79
 unwind_get_return_address+0x5d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:369
 arch_stack_walk+0x11d/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 stack_trace_save+0xaa/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:3843
 xt_free_table_info+0xfc/0x170 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1231
 __do_replace+0x7ca/0x990 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1101
 do_replace net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1158 [inline]
 do_ip6t_set_ctl+0xb48/0xe10 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1644
 nf_setsockopt+0x263/0x280 net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:101
 do_sock_setsockopt+0x175/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2321
 __sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2344 [inline]
 __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2353 [inline]
 __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2350 [inline]
 __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x182/0x200 net/socket.c:2350
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f878239e69a
RSP: 002b:00007ffc360da058 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000036
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc360da0e0 RCX: 00007f878239e69a
RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000029 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 00000000000002e8 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007f87825ea2a0 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007f87825ea240
R13: 00007ffc360da07c R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007f87825eafc0
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10551 jiffies! g195049 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=1
rcu: 	Unless rcu_preempt kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
task:rcu_preempt     state:R  running task     stack:26728 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6774
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x313/0x1590 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: b9 20 02 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d c3 54 41 00 fb f4 <c3> 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 50 8b 2f eb 2e 41 89 de 80
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000187de0 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: cb9a37c5b9e3c100 RBX: ffffffff8162aee1 RCX: cb9a37c5b9e3c100
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acacbe0 RDI: ffffffff8b1c9860
RBP: ffffc90000187f20 R08: ffff8880b8f36b2b R09: 1ffff110171e6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6d66 R12: 1ffff92000030fc8
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffff110037cb780 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f62683ea540 CR3: 0000000075bbe000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:178 [inline]
 do_idle+0x221/0x590 kernel/sched/idle.c:302
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 start_secondary+0xee/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:323
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/21 03:26 linux-6.6.y eac8889a3a1c 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_setsockopt
2026/02/13 08:46 linux-6.6.y 1b4ef5214f17 6a673c50 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_setsockopt
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.