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INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/23 05:23
Subsystems: bpf trace
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+085983798339fb1b6e51@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 161d, last: 5d00h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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75cd67f3-cd7b-41a3-8a57-9374a5e483c7 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog (2) 2026/05/25 21:22 2026/05/25 21:22 2026/05/25 22:21 c69befb30ac10e158cc9d1557b508ee3f0eca1de
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[syzbot] [kernel?] INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog (2) 3 (4) 2026/01/07 16:54
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog bpf 1 C error done 14 259d 1381d 29/29 fixed on 2025/11/14 12:00
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (3)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/03/31 16:03 31m retest repro net-next report log
2026/03/25 13:58 1h10m retest repro upstream report log
2026/01/04 07:06 41m retest repro net-next error

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=18609, q=500 ncpus=2)
rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 10502 (4294978752-4294968250), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x0
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g18609 f0x2 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:27272 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14bc/0x5000 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6960
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x599/0xb30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:183 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:246 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x97/0x130 kernel/kcov.c:351
Code: 54 53 48 8b 54 24 20 65 4c 8b 04 25 08 b0 7e 92 45 31 c9 eb 08 49 ff c1 4c 39 c8 74 77 4e 8b 54 ce 10 65 44 8b 1d c9 f7 bc 10 <41> 81 e3 00 01 ff 00 74 13 41 81 fb 00 01 00 00 75 d9 41 83 b8 6c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a082e0 EFLAGS: 00000016
RAX: 0000000000000020 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 0000000000000005
RDX: ffffffff81c39275 RSI: ffffffff8df9a280 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000006100d347d2 R08: ffff88801e2b0000 R09: 000000000000001b
R10: 000000000000001b R11: 0000000080010005 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88801bed6010 R14: ffff88801bed64c0 R15: 00000000000667c4
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125f35000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055d3cfba3a38 CR3: 00000000727a4000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 rb_event_length+0x45/0x400 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:222
 rb_read_data_buffer+0x438/0x580 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1858
 check_buffer+0x28a/0x750 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:4410
 __rb_reserve_next+0x592/0xdb0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:4509
 rb_reserve_next_event kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:4646 [inline]
 ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xbb5/0x1010 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:4705
 __trace_buffer_lock_reserve kernel/trace/trace.c:1079 [inline]
 trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1d0/0x6f0 kernel/trace/trace.c:2808
 trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x248/0x340 kernel/trace/trace_events.c:672
 do_trace_event_raw_event_bpf_trace_printk kernel/trace/bpf_trace.h:11 [inline]
 trace_event_raw_event_bpf_trace_printk+0x100/0x260 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.h:11
 __do_trace_bpf_trace_printk kernel/trace/bpf_trace.h:11 [inline]
 trace_bpf_trace_printk+0x153/0x1b0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.h:11
 ____bpf_trace_printk kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:379 [inline]
 bpf_trace_printk+0x11e/0x190 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:362
 bpf_prog_b1367f0be6c54012+0x39/0x3f
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1378 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:723 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:730 [inline]
 __bpf_trace_run kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:2075 [inline]
 bpf_trace_run1+0x27f/0x4c0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:2115
 __bpf_trace_rcu_utilization+0xa1/0xf0 include/trace/events/rcu.h:27
 __traceiter_rcu_utilization+0x7a/0xb0 include/trace/events/rcu.h:27
 __do_trace_rcu_utilization include/trace/events/rcu.h:27 [inline]
 trace_rcu_utilization+0x191/0x1c0 include/trace/events/rcu.h:27
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0xd3/0x1280 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2693
 update_process_times+0x23c/0x2f0 kernel/time/timer.c:2474
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:298 [inline]
 tick_nohz_handler+0x3e9/0x710 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:319
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1777 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4d0/0xc30 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1841
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x45b/0xaa0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1903
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1045 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x102/0x3e0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa1/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:console_trylock_spinning kernel/printk/printk.c:2037 [inline]
RIP: 0010:vprintk_emit+0x4d0/0x5f0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2425
Code: 0f 84 34 ff ff ff e8 cf 62 20 00 fb eb 44 e8 c7 62 20 00 e8 82 72 ba 09 4d 85 f6 74 94 e8 b8 62 20 00 fb 48 c7 c7 e0 58 f3 8d <31> f6 ba 01 00 00 00 31 c9 41 b8 01 00 00 00 45 31 c9 53 e8 28 26
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a77a80 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81a14f98 RBX: ffffffff81a14df1 RCX: ffff88801e2b0000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8df358e0
RBP: ffffc90000a77b90 R08: ffffffff8f822077 R09: 1ffffffff1f0440e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f0440f R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000040 R14: 0000000000000200 R15: 1ffff9200014ef54
 _printk+0xcf/0x120 kernel/printk/printk.c:2451
 check_hung_task kernel/hung_task.c:255 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:331 [inline]
 watchdog+0xb35/0xfe0 kernel/hung_task.c:515
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x599/0xb30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/21 06:23 net-next 7b8e9264f55a d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog
2026/03/11 11:55 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog
2026/05/26 06:18 net f6f1bfc1980a c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog
2026/05/18 16:23 net aaec7096f996 55156e84 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog
2026/04/16 21:53 net 104f082f5ed6 321ae225 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in watchdog
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.