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INFO: rcu detected stall in flock (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/14 22:22
Reported-by: syzbot+1fb5d86a3d931a51a29e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 97d, last: 97d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in flock 1 1 230d 230d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/12 22:11
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in flock (2) bpf 1 1 475d 475d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/02 07:58
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in flock kernel 1 1 1190d 1190d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/19 06:57
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in flock 1 1 55d 55d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/03/28 08:14
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_flock (3) mm 1 1 292d 292d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/01 23:21
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_flock fs 1 1 666d 666d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/23 09:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_flock (2) fs 1 1 519d 519d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/20 01:25

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=4f7/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=60683/60684 fqs=458 
	(t=10500 jiffies g=91581 q=117)
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9555 jiffies! g91581 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:27416 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2117
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2be/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9b/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </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:729
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 16034 Comm: syz.6.1863 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 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+0x6ea/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021
 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:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4ad/0xb70 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811
 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+0x9b/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:flock_make_lock fs/locks.c:-1 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__do_sys_flock fs/locks.c:2200 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__se_sys_flock+0x1fc/0x580 fs/locks.c:2181
Code: e8 03 80 3c 28 00 74 05 e8 91 64 dc ff 4d 89 6f 30 4d 8d 6f 38 4c 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 ef e8 74 64 dc ff <4d> 89 6f 38 49 8d 7f 40 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 28 00 74 05 e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000320fec8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 1ffff1100cdd512d RBX: ffff888049afb181 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888066ea8960
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff888066ea8957 R09: ffff888066ea8948
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100cdd512b R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888066ea8968 R14: ffff888049afb180 R15: ffff888066ea8930
 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: 0033:0x7f049dddaf79
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:00007f049c035028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000049
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f049e054fa0 RCX: 00007f049dddaf79
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f049de717e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f049e055038 R14: 00007f049e054fa0 R15: 00007ffc2ff1aa58
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/14 22:22 linux-5.15.y e45d5d41c134 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in flock
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.