INFO: rcu detected stall in __fsnotify_parent (3)

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/05/19 20:54
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+27ce6cc06c1311c152f5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 98d, last: 47d
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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a2b35132 patching 💥 INFO: rcu detected stall in __fsnotify_parent (3) 2026/05/20 14:46 2026/05/20 20:52 2026/05/20 21:14 cf874a1c
04fed266 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in __fsnotify_parent (3) 2026/05/16 17:40 2026/05/16 18:21 2026/05/16 19:07 de5aae85
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[syzbot] Monthly fs report (Jul 2026) 0 (1) 2026/07/10 20:32
[syzbot] [fs?] [usb?] [input?] INFO: rcu detected stall in __fsnotify_parent (3) 1 (2) 2026/05/25 14:47
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __fsnotify_parent input usb fs 1 syz, C 7 660d 688d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/19 23:52
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __fsnotify_parent (2) mm 1 1 311d 311d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/13 04:46
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/05/30 22:16 34m retest repro upstream log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P4963/1:b..l

rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10506 jiffies, g=15565, q=1900 ncpus=2)
task:acpid           state:R
  running task     stack:22856 pid:4963  tgid:4963  ppid:1      task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080001
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5388 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1295/0x67a0 kernel/sched/core.c:7189
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x50/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7513
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_preempt include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:476 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:547 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x205/0x7e0 kernel/entry/common.c:164
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x5e/0x370 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 05 3b a2 26 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 d9 02 00 00 48 0f a3 05 46 41 f3 0e 0f 82 a4 02 00 00 8b 35 ce 74 f3 0e 85 f6 0f 85 bf 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 dd a1 26 12 0f 85 ed 02 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000342fb30 EFLAGS: 00000206

RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8defcf06 RDI: ffffffff8c1c3a00
RBP: ffffffff8e7e57a0 R08: 0000000086db7919 R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:838 [inline]
 dput.part.0+0x4c/0x570 fs/dcache.c:971
 dput+0x1f/0x30 fs/dcache.c:968
 __fsnotify_parent+0x694/0xca0 fs/notify/fsnotify.c:242
 fsnotify_parent include/linux/fsnotify.h:96 [inline]
 fsnotify_path include/linux/fsnotify.h:113 [inline]
 fsnotify_file include/linux/fsnotify.h:127 [inline]
 fsnotify_file include/linux/fsnotify.h:116 [inline]
 fsnotify_access include/linux/fsnotify.h:425 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x486/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:578
 ksys_read+0x1f8/0x250 fs/read_write.c:717
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x10b/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7feac7fb3407
RSP: 002b:00007ffc6dd51e00 EFLAGS: 00000202
 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007feac7f29780 RCX: 00007feac7fb3407
RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: 00007ffc6dd51e50 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: 00007ffc6dd51e50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000556e2f8031e4
R13: 0000556e4a9f2380 R14: 0000000000000007 R15: 000000000000000b
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 4298 jiffies! g15565 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:27992 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5388 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1295/0x67a0 kernel/sched/core.c:7189
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7268 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x390 kernel/sched/core.c:7283
 schedule_timeout+0x127/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1a9/0x900 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x179/0x230 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 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:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5978 Comm: syz.1.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data+0x40/0x90 kernel/kcov.c:246
Code: 02 12 a9 00 01 ff 00 74 1b f6 c4 01 74 07 a9 00 00 ff 00 74 05 c3 cc cc cc cc 8b 87 d4 16 00 00 85 c0 74 f1 8b 87 b0 16 00 00 <83> f8 03 75 e6 48 8b 87 b8 16 00 00 8b bf b4 16 00 00 48 8b 30 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc900024af648 EFLAGS: 00000246

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff81fc2bcd
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88805a5e0000
RBP: ffff8880b8443320 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: ffffed1017088665 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff8880b853c5c0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88812446d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8c6e1b56e8 CR3: 0000000059a89000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:342 [inline]
 smp_call_function_many_cond+0x5ad/0x1700 kernel/smp.c:892
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x40/0x90 kernel/smp.c:1057
 __flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:46 [inline]
 flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1361 [inline]
 flush_tlb_mm_range+0x45f/0x16f0 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1451
 tlb_flush arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h:23 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly include/asm-generic/tlb.h:509 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly include/asm-generic/tlb.h:499 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:423 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x3fe/0x810 mm/mmu_gather.c:549
 exit_mmap+0x454/0xa10 mm/mmap.c:1313
 __mmput+0x12a/0x410 kernel/fork.c:1178
 mmput+0x67/0x80 kernel/fork.c:1201
 exit_mm kernel/exit.c:582 [inline]
 do_exit+0x8b2/0x2af0 kernel/exit.c:964
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1119
 get_signal+0x20ff/0x2210 kernel/signal.c:3037
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x91/0x7e0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8b/0x4f0 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:238 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x706/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f7a9eb5d68e
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f7a9eb5d664.
RSP: 002b:00007fffdcda5708 EFLAGS: 00000246
 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e6
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000055558fc36500 RCX: 00007f7a9eb5d68e
RDX: 00007fffdcda5760 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fffdcda58b0
R13: 00007f7a9ee15fac R14: 000000000002bbe6 R15: 00007f7a9ee15fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/16 16:52 upstream 6916d5703ddf a15a64a6 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in __fsnotify_parent
2026/07/06 06:22 upstream f105f3631d51 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in __fsnotify_parent
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.