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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (8)

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/02/24 08:50
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+1e663068a97140bb66f3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 102d, last: 4d21h
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[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (8) 0 (1) 2026/02/24 08:50
Similar bugs (16)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (2) mm 1 2 2239d 2239d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 08:13
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (4) 1 3 34d 98d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/11/18 16:53
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (7) fs 1 2 247d 251d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/20 13:58
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (5) fs 1 2 820d 882d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/25 12:55
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (3) 1 1 11d 11d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/02/13 13:02
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (4) fs 1 1 1211d 1211d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/02/25 08:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (3) fs 1 3 1312d 1386d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/21 16:10
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename 1 1 304d 304d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/04 09:07
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename 1 1 872d 872d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/14 17:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (6) fs 1 13 442d 614d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/09 06:53
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (2) 1 1 193d 193d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/23 08:45
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename origin:lts-only 1 C done 1 161d 161d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/16 17:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename mm 1 9 2274d 2276d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:14
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (2) 1 1 566d 566d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/15 17:39
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (3) 1 1 377d 377d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/23 15:25
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_rename 1 2 662d 667d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/01 16:15

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P1034/2:b..l P5873/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10504 jiffies, g=14085, q=669 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:23784 pid:5873  tgid:5873  ppid:5200   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080800
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1585/0x5340 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 irqentry_exit+0x599/0x620 kernel/entry/common.c:239
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x20b/0x2e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: e9 30 ff ff ff e8 c5 f3 18 0a f7 c3 00 02 00 00 0f 84 38 ff ff ff 65 48 8b 05 41 01 a0 11 48 3b 44 24 30 75 33 fb 48 83 c4 38 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d fe 3b 95
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003f073d8 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: a296ff60d4053400 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 00000000112c4056 RSI: ffffffff8e287ccb RDI: ffffffff8c2a0a00
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8176da45 R09: ffffffff8e9602e0
R10: ffffc90003f07538 R11: ffffffff81b115b0 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8e9602e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1193 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x23c0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5219 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x35c/0x760 mm/slub.c:5231
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:966 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe3/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path2_perm+0x2c5/0x760 security/tomoyo/file.c:927
 tomoyo_path_rename+0x14e/0x1b0 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:300
 security_path_rename+0x248/0x460 security/security.c:1518
 filename_renameat2+0x4c1/0x9c0 fs/namei.c:6139
 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:6188 [inline]
 __se_sys_rename+0x55/0x2c0 fs/namei.c:6184
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f6cd687acc7
RSP: 002b:00007ffec20235f8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055db72eaa280 RCX: 00007f6cd687acc7
RDX: 000055db72ea2010 RSI: 00007ffec2023610 RDI: 00007ffec2023a10
RBP: 000055db72ebff10 R08: 00000000000001e0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffec2023610
R13: 00007ffec2023a10 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000055db6bd089dd
 </TASK>
task:kworker/u8:7    state:R  running task     stack:24416 pid:1034  tgid:1034  ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000
Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1585/0x5340 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7091
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk.S:12
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xe1/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:457
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:924 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1e6c/0x38a0 net/core/dev.c:4864
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:246
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 ndisc_send_skb+0xbaa/0x14e0 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:512
 ndisc_send_ns+0xd7/0x160 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:670
 addrconf_dad_work+0xac4/0x14c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4287
 process_one_work+0x949/0x1650 kernel/workqueue.c:3279
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3362 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xb46/0x1140 kernel/workqueue.c:3443
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10573 jiffies! g14085 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=0
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:27616 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1585/0x5340 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6989 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7004
 schedule_timeout+0x158/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x312/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6085 Comm: syz.0.27 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:194 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:246 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x36/0x90 kernel/kcov.c:314
Code: 28 e9 7b 11 65 8b 0d 49 e9 7b 11 81 e1 00 01 ff 00 74 11 81 f9 00 01 00 00 75 5b 83 ba 54 16 00 00 00 74 52 8b 8a 30 16 00 00 <83> f9 03 75 47 48 8b 8a 38 16 00 00 44 8b 8a 34 16 00 00 49 c1 e1
RSP: 0018:ffffc900025e7a88 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff81b67144 RBX: ffff8880b8423e40 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88802df49e40 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff81b32095 R09: ffffffff9a518508
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffff81742750 R12: 00000000100006b5
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 00000000000001ed R15: 0000000000000020
FS:  00007f9fec4f96c0(0000) GS:ffff888125002000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000058 CR3: 0000000075658000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 clockevents_program_event+0x1d4/0x350 kernel/time/clockevents.c:336
 hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x1687/0x1ff0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1331
 __posixtimer_deliver_signal kernel/time/posix-timers.c:314 [inline]
 posixtimer_deliver_signal+0x1ce/0x410 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:340
 dequeue_signal+0x249/0x370 kernel/signal.c:660
 get_signal+0x55d/0x1330 kernel/signal.c:2914
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x830 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x86/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f9feb59c629
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f9fec4f90e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00007f9feb815fa8 RCX: 00007f9feb59c629
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f9feb815fa8
RBP: 00007f9feb815fa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9feb816038 R14: 00007ffda92b66d0 R15: 00007ffda92b67b8
 </TASK>

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/20 08:46 linux-next 44982d352c33 17d780d6 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in rename
2026/01/25 02:47 upstream 12a0094839d0 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
2025/12/26 06:58 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
2025/12/21 17:21 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
2025/12/15 04:56 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
2025/12/13 19:12 upstream 9551a26f17d9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
2025/12/05 01:23 upstream 2aa680df6806 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
2025/11/14 08:42 upstream 6da43bbeb691 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
2025/12/02 05:16 net-next cbca440dc329 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
2026/01/05 18:26 linux-next f8f97927abf7 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.