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INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_ioctl (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/05/11 07:59
Reported-by: syzbot+12a99337276c7bf42c3d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 160d, last: 22d
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_ioctl 1 2 467d 469d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/16 15:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_ioctl mm 1 1 2146d 2146d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_ioctl (2) mm 1 78 285d 445d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/17 09:34
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in kcov_ioctl 1 8 517d 549d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/17 12:17

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P18037/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=100197, q=327 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:23968 pid:18037 ppid:4254   flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
 __schedule+0x10ec/0x40b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6561
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6873
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:439
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x20f/0x490 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5666
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f5 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3d 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 0b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003287880 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: a8f2c56c97bd0000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c1680 RDI: ffffffff8adefce0
RBP: ffffc90003287988 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff215c449
R10: fffffbfff215c449 R11: 1ffffffff215c448 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 1ffff92000650f1c R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 page_ext_get+0x3a/0x2a0 mm/page_ext.c:157
 __page_table_check_zero+0x134/0x4b0 mm/page_table_check.c:146
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2539 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a26/0x1ac0 mm/page_alloc.c:4328
 __alloc_pages+0x1df/0x4e0 mm/page_alloc.c:5614
 vm_area_alloc_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3002 [inline]
 __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:3071 [inline]
 __vmalloc_node_range+0x959/0x1390 mm/vmalloc.c:3243
 vmalloc_user+0x70/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3397
 kcov_ioctl+0x54/0x640 kernel/kcov.c:713
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fba15b8eacb
RSP: 002b:00007ffd68a16280 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000080000 RCX: 00007fba15b8eacb
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff80086301 RDI: 00000000000000da
RBP: 00007fba15de6218 R08: 00000000000000d9 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000009 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10525 jiffies! g100197 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:27456 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
 __schedule+0x10ec/0x40b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6561
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6637
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:1965
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2f2/0x1310 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x95/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1905
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:741

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/26 13:49 linux-6.1.y 7b34dc04e4ff 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_ioctl
2025/07/20 09:46 linux-6.1.y 3369c6df2fae 7117feec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_ioctl
2025/05/11 07:58 linux-6.1.y 02b72ccb5f9d 77908e5f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.