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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: 2d00h, last: 2d00h
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 1055d 1115d 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 3 26d 56d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/10/07 07:00
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink 1 1 825d 825d 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 1319d 1319d 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 489d 514d 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 729d 732d 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 137d 164d 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 298d 488d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/18 03:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (3) bpf fs 1 2 931d 937d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/14 04:05
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (5) mm 1 syz done 34 39d 409d 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 160d 293d 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 539d 598d 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): P8010/1:b..l P9968/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=68305, q=272 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:27080 pid:9968  ppid:5160   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:7009
 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+0x17e/0x1c0 include/linux/seqlock.h:105
Code: ff 4d 85 ed 75 16 e8 71 7c 95 ff eb 15 e8 6a 7c 95 ff e8 95 19 7f 08 4d 85 ed 74 ea e8 5b 7c 95 ff fb 48 c7 04 24 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 27 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 27 09 00 00 43 c6 44 27 0b 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000f7860 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81f02425 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88807f743c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900000f7910 R08: ffffffff8e4a8e2f R09: 1ffffffff1c951c5
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c951c6 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000200 R14: ffffffff81f0326a R15: 1ffff9200001ef0c
 __follow_mount_rcu fs/namei.c:1521 [inline]
 handle_mounts fs/namei.c:1546 [inline]
 step_into+0x64a/0xf10 fs/namei.c:1848
 walk_component fs/namei.c:2016 [inline]
 link_path_walk+0x6df/0xe00 fs/namei.c:2337
 path_lookupat+0x9d/0x440 fs/namei.c:2490
 filename_lookup+0x1f4/0x510 fs/namei.c:2520
 user_path_at_empty+0x42/0x60 fs/namei.c:2917
 do_readlinkat+0xd8/0x480 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:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f6d003153a7
RSP: 002b:00007ffd1d3c9a18 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000059
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd1d3c9ef0 RCX: 00007f6d003153a7
RDX: 0000000000000400 RSI: 00007ffd1d3c9a20 RDI: 00007ffd1d3c9ef0
RBP: 00007ffd1d3c9a20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000020
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000400
R13: 00007ffd1d3ca725 R14: 00005577d1211ca4 R15: 00005577d1211bcc
 </TASK>
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:20712 pid:8010  ppid:7989   flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6866
 preempt_schedule+0xab/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6890
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:45
 __raw_spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock+0x3a/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186
 spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:391 [inline]
 copy_pte_range mm/memory.c:1107 [inline]
 copy_pmd_range mm/memory.c:1168 [inline]
 copy_pud_range mm/memory.c:1205 [inline]
 copy_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1229 [inline]
 copy_page_range+0x2b7c/0x3600 mm/memory.c:1323
 dup_mmap kernel/fork.c:764 [inline]
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1692 [inline]
 copy_mm+0x11a8/0x1ca0 kernel/fork.c:1741
 copy_process+0x16d3/0x3d70 kernel/fork.c:2506
 kernel_clone+0x21b/0x840 kernel/fork.c:2914
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:3057 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:3041 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x18c/0x1e0 kernel/fork.c:3041
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f3b89185e93
RSP: 002b:00007ffc7efaa1a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f3b89185e93
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 000055557a65d7d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00000000000927c0 R14: 00000000000af0be R15: 00007ffc7efaa340
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10544 jiffies! g68305 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:26568 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6773
 schedule_timeout+0x160/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:2167
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x302/0x1560 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x380 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: 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 c3 f4 38 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <c3> cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56
RSP: 0000:ffffffff8ca07d80 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 1dc4c82e159cc900 RBX: ffffffff8161981b RCX: 1dc4c82e159cc900
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8aaabce0 RDI: ffffffff8afc6f40
RBP: ffffffff8ca07eb8 R08: ffff8880b8e36b2b R09: 1ffff110171c6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6d66 R12: ffffffff8e4a8e28
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffffffff1952688
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa05e1ab7d9 CR3: 000000001ca4c000 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:170 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1eb/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:282
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:380
 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 (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
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.