INFO: rcu detected stall in free_obj_work

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/05 04:12
Reported-by: syzbot+10e23caf6cb4c8a0252a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 15d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in free_obj_work (2) kernel 1 7 322d 504d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/30 19:31
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in free_obj_work net virt 1 2 791d 802d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/18 07:59

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-....: (1 ticks this GP) idle=007/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=79470/79470 fqs=2100 
	(detected by 1, t=10504 jiffies, g=112857, q=1671)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 10485 Comm: kworker/0:20 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events free_obj_work
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x198/0x7b50 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4911
Code: ff 49 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 49 89 c7 48 85 c0 0f 84 53 26 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 48 8d 98 e8 0a 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <48> 89 44 24 60 42 0f b6 04 00 84 c0 0f 85 93 63 00 00 44 8b 33 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007100 EFLAGS: 00000802
RAX: 1ffff1100e4958cd RBX: ffff8880724ac668 RCX: 1ffff92000000e40
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8c31ef60
RBP: ffffc90000007330 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1b16246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffff8c31ef60 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8fb77f40
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fdeb49972f8 CR3: 000000000c08e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 lock_acquire+0x19e/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5623
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:313
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:740 [inline]
 __perf_output_begin kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:163 [inline]
 perf_output_begin_forward+0xa5/0xa30 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:271
 __perf_event_output kernel/events/core.c:7814 [inline]
 perf_event_output_forward+0x19b/0x2e0 kernel/events/core.c:7832
 __perf_event_overflow+0x35f/0x550 kernel/events/core.c:9525
 perf_swevent_overflow kernel/events/core.c:9601 [inline]
 perf_swevent_event+0x4b8/0x540 kernel/events/core.c:9639
 perf_tp_event+0x324/0xbe0 kernel/events/core.c:10057
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10031
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2aa/0x360 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x7f/0x4a0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: eb 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 42 c7 44 2b 08 f8 f3 f3 f3 65 44 8b 35 f2 0f 9d 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 40 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 42 c7 44 2b 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007c60 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 3715c19749168100 RBX: 1ffff92000000f90 RCX: 3715c19749168100
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: ffffffff8a7a4540
RBP: ffffc90000007d30 R08: ffffffff901ef12f R09: 1ffffffff203de25
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203de26 R12: ffffffff8c323400
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 rebalance_domains+0x88d/0x9b0 kernel/sched/fair.c:10660
 handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:kasan_quarantine_put+0x84/0x210 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:234
Code: e8 81 f6 c0 ff 48 c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 04 24 f7 04 24 00 02 00 00 0f 85 83 00 00 00 41 f7 c7 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 31 c0 <48> 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 8d 80 40 62 03 00 45
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032efa30 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 3715c19749168101 RBX: ffff888024d131f8 RCX: 3715c19749168100
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: ffffffff8a7a4540
RBP: ffffc900032efac8 R08: ffffffff901ef12f R09: 1ffffffff203de25
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203de26 R12: ffff888016c4f8c0
R13: ffff888024d131f8 R14: 00000000000a1b50 R15: 0000000000000282
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x8f/0x210 mm/slub.c:3520
 free_obj_work+0x430/0x5a0 lib/debugobjects.c:335
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/05 04:12 linux-5.15.y 0996e0926f6b 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in free_obj_work
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.