INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread (6)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/22 10:23
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+2d47e0896b84fae323c7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 157d, last: 2d07h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [kernel?] INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread (6) 0 (2) 2026/08/15 20:30
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread mm 1 1 2963d 2963d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/09/10 16:00
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread (3) origin:upstream 1 syz error 2 114d 213d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/03/22 04:20
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread (3) kernel 1 12 593d 903d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/05 06:00
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread (2) 1 1 316d 316d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/20 03:20
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread 1 1 587d 587d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/21 04:55
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread (4) kernel 1 1 436d 436d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/10 02:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread (5) kernel 1 2 253d 317d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/11 18:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread (2) kernel 1 11 2869d 2958d 0/29 closed as dup on 2019/01/02 16:35
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread origin:lts-only 1 syz error 1 93d 129d 0/2 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/06/14 13:42
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread 1 2 1845d 1877d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/01/30 14:43
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (3)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/29 04:53 24m retest repro upstream report job log log
2026/09/29 04:53 22m retest repro upstream report job log log
2026/08/01 11:55 26m retest repro upstream report log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=13061, q=1051 ncpus=2)
rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 10500 (4294955331-4294944831), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x0
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10500 jiffies! g13061 f0x2 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:27592 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5510 [inline]
 __schedule+0x125c/0x6730 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x50/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7556
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_preempt include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:468 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x205/0xa00 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1a9/0x900 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2123
Code: f6 c5 02 75 42 48 8b 05 fd fc ef 0c 48 85 c0 75 0c 48 8b 05 71 fd ef 0c 48 85 c0 74 2a 48 85 db 74 25 48 89 df e8 87 23 d0 09 <48> 89 c3 ba 02 04 00 00 4c 89 ee 48 c7 c7 98 3a df 8e e8 50 6b f3
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000157ca8 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88801f280000 RSI: ffffffff8bbf5da1 RDI: ffffffff8c600380
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8ea0f280
R13: ffffc90000157d10 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffff9200002af96
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x179/0x230 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2325
 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: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5954 Comm: syz.0.26 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:188 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x29/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:206
Code: 90 f3 0f 1e fa 53 48 8b 74 24 08 48 89 fb 48 83 c7 18 e8 fa 90 26 f6 48 89 df e8 82 e0 26 f6 e8 fd 49 53 f6 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> 32 ee 15 f6 65 8b 05 5b a7 c4 08 85 c0 74 06 5b e9 81 4b 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000202fc88 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 000000000515ac11 RBX: ffff88802e28ef00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e3aced0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000021
R13: ffff88802e28f300 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff888021f3a540
FS:  00007f8b813fb6c0(0000) GS:ffff888123bde000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000058 CR3: 0000000078326000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock.h:402 [inline]
 get_signal+0x195a/0x21e0 kernel/signal.c:3049
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x91/0x7e0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:66 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x139/0x6f0 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __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:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x666/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f8b8059e0d7
Code: 83 c8 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
RSP: 002b:00007f8b813fb0e8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 00000000000000ca RBX: 00007f8b80825fa8 RCX: 00007f8b8059e0d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f8b80825fa8
RBP: 00007f8b80825fa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8b80826038 R14: 00007fff1b59f550 R15: 00007fff1b59f638
 </TASK>

Crashes (16):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/15 20:30 upstream 15ef2f78c49d 746171ee .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/09/11 21:24 upstream 08df884136f1 b6a5eeb7 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/07/18 10:06 upstream af5e34a41cd6 72524a66 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/10/19 20:13 upstream c03c1a14507d 440f8011 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/10/18 02:55 upstream 58161ead29e5 432c0077 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/10/08 20:22 upstream 7b63ef2d55f2 4f6a9fcf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/10/07 12:42 upstream 602042bf29f6 f7710056 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/09/30 05:32 upstream 6f8319e3e9a4 7808aef4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/09/05 06:42 upstream 654ae5d73c05 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/08/22 10:10 upstream 26260251022f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/08/18 07:23 upstream ff68e5f557f6 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/08/14 09:48 upstream 3aa1dcaa4f6f b13552fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/08/12 12:56 upstream f5bbbfec59b4 f8d35649 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/05/17 09:45 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/09/14 16:31 net-next 879e280b8486 924033e8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
2026/08/23 20:19 linux-next 903c1cf6dff9 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kthread
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.