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INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (4)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/09 14:58
Reported-by: syzbot+16566e2176db580ec63f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d16h, last: 4d16h
Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon kernel 1 C error inconclusive 1904 1236d 1816d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/10/12 18:37
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (3) 1 1 24d 24d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/08/20 14:14
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon 1 1 695d 695d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/28 07:17
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (3) 1 3 348d 355d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/08 17:17
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) 1 1 233d 233d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/03 16:43
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon 1 3 348d 373d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/08 20:04
upstream BUG: soft lockup in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) wireless 1 C error inconclusive 139 9d15h 551d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/11 14:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) 1 1 571d 571d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/30 17:39
upstream BUG: soft lockup in mac80211_hwsim_beacon wireless 1 syz error unreliable 180 1236d 1809d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/21 14:41

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-....: (10498 ticks this GP) idle=1fd/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=7375/7375 fqs=4140 
	(t=10500 jiffies g=8433 q=1746)
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 4554 Comm: syz.4.78 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x397/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x22f/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:349
 print_cpu_stall+0x31d/0x5f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:633
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:727 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x6d8/0x1110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1690 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4fe/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1816
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:__rcu_read_unlock+0x51/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:421
Code: ec 03 43 0f b6 04 3c 84 c0 75 48 ff 0b 75 1d 4c 8d b7 40 04 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 38 84 c0 75 5f 41 83 3e 00 <75> 20 43 0f b6 04 3c 84 c0 75 3a 8b 03 3d 00 00 00 40 73 0a 5b 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007bc8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88801e91843c RCX: ffff88801e918000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: ffffffff8a59a220 RDI: ffff88801e918000
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ad31be
R10: fffffbfff1ad31be R11: 1ffffffff1ad31bd R12: 1ffff11003d23087
R13: 0000000000019000 R14: ffff88801e918440 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:771 [inline]
 ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x132/0x140 net/mac80211/util.c:831
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0x9b/0x180 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1865
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1690 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x53d/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x176/0x240 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1771
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_call_function_single arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:243 [inline]
 sysvec_call_function_single+0x9d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:243
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_call_function_single+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:684
RIP: 0010:finish_lock_switch+0x134/0x280 kernel/sched/core.c:4804
Code: be ff ff ff ff e8 ec 7c 55 08 85 c0 74 4a 4d 85 ff 75 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 df e8 46 e7 5e 08 e8 71 75 2a 00 fb 48 83 c4 08 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 89 df e8 d9 0f fe ff 43 80 3c
RSP: 0018:ffffc900031877c8 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: f82fc05674910200 RBX: ffff8880b903a300 RCX: f82fc05674910200
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1620 RDI: ffffffff8a59a240
RBP: 1ffff1101720760b R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed101720765a
R10: ffffed101720765a R11: 1ffff11017207659 R12: 1ffff110172075b9
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b903adc8 R15: 0000000000000000
 finish_task_switch+0x12f/0x640 kernel/sched/core.c:4921
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5052 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 freezable_schedule include/linux/freezer.h:172 [inline]
 futex_wait_queue_me+0x22d/0x440 kernel/futex/core.c:2863
 futex_wait+0x202/0x5c0 kernel/futex/core.c:2964
 do_futex+0xd1c/0x1240 kernel/futex/core.c:3982
 __do_sys_futex kernel/futex/core.c:4059 [inline]
 __se_sys_futex+0x3a3/0x430 kernel/futex/core.c:4040
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f6152531be9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f61507990e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6152768fa8 RCX: 00007f6152531be9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f6152768fa8
RBP: 00007f6152768fa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6152769038 R14: 00007fff70d33320 R15: 00007fff70d33408
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/09 14:57 linux-5.15.y 7a6c2d093c45 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.