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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/30 09:31
Reported-by: syzbot+3002409a7f7a90f185b9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 142d, last: 5d10h
Similar bugs (12)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) kernel 1 3 1195d 1255d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/24 08:02
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (4) 1 4 114d 196d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/06 17:59
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink 1 1 965d 965d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/08 09:32
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink fs 1 1 1459d 1459d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/07/22 05:22
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) 1 3 629d 654d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/07 23:07
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (4) fs 1 2 869d 873d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/02 18:22
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) 1 2 277d 305d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/26 06:03
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink 1 4 438d 629d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/18 03:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (3) fs bpf 1 2 1071d 1077d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/14 04:05
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (5) kernfs mm 1 syz done error 47 19d 550d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/10/18 11:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (3) 1 3 300d 433d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/02 16:41
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_readlink 1 2 680d 738d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/08 11:06

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5139/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=59493, q=330 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:23144 pid:5139  ppid:1      flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbf/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7010
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:seqcount_lockdep_reader_access+0x199/0x1d0 include/linux/seqlock.h:105
Code: ff 4d 85 ed 75 16 e8 f6 87 94 ff eb 15 e8 ef 87 94 ff e8 ca c0 93 08 4d 85 ed 74 ea e8 e0 87 94 ff fb 48 c7 04 24 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 27 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 27 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032f7980 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81f29a20 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88807e089e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900032f7a28 R08: ffffffff8e8b14ef R09: 1ffffffff1d1629d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d1629e R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000200 R14: ffffffff81f29fce R15: 1ffff9200065ef30
 set_root+0x15e/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:948
 nd_jump_root+0x2a7/0x410 fs/namei.c:969
 path_init+0x3e5/0x1200 fs/namei.c:2401
 path_lookupat+0x27/0x440 fs/namei.c:2481
 filename_lookup+0x228/0x560 fs/namei.c:2520
 user_path_at_empty+0x42/0x60 fs/namei.c:2917
 do_readlinkat+0xdd/0x490 fs/stat.c:494
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:527 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:524 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x7f/0x90 fs/stat.c:524
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fec863153a7
RSP: 002b:00007ffd4f10be18 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000059
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd4f10c660 RCX: 00007fec863153a7
RDX: 0000000000000400 RSI: 00007ffd4f10c220 RDI: 00007ffd4f10be20
RBP: 0000000000000200 R08: 000055d0d69d3c29 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffd4f10be20
R13: 00007ffd4f10c220 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007ffd4f10cb70
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 5251 jiffies! g59493 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:26920 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6774
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x313/0x1590 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: 29 21 02 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 83 e3 41 00 fb f4 <c3> 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 50 8b 2f eb 2e 41 89 de 80
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8ce07d80 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: e4daa1b098828400 RBX: ffffffff8162a8f1 RCX: e4daa1b098828400
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acac9e0 RDI: ffffffff8b1c8e60
RBP: ffffffff8ce07eb8 R08: ffff8880b8e36b2b R09: 1ffff110171c6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6d66 R12: 1ffffffff19c0fbc
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffffffff19d2688 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b34c1cff8 CR3: 000000005a658000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:178 [inline]
 do_idle+0x221/0x590 kernel/sched/idle.c:302
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 rest_init+0x2e2/0x300 init/main.c:744
 arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10 init/main.c:841
 start_kernel+0x459/0x4e0 init/main.c:1086
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:555
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x60/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:536
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/16 05:39 linux-6.6.y 8cee53b8eaeb df15c5f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2026/03/20 22:51 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 ac6f1dff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2026/01/13 21:24 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/11/30 09:30 linux-6.6.y 1e89a1be4fe9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.