INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_exit

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/09 08:12
Reported-by: syzbot+397875e054890ee89f31@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10d, last: 10d
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_exit (3) kasan mm 1 1 1012d 1012d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2024/02/01 10:31
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_exit (2) mm 1 1 1123d 1123d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/22 10:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_exit crypto 1 1 1492d 1492d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/11/16 20:12
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_exit (4) mm cgroups 1 1 804d 804d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/05 13:48

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (0 ticks this GP) idle=9994/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=87405/87405 fqs=0
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=117993, q=45 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 21827 Comm: syz.6.5171 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x1f1/0x7d80 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:-1
Code: b6 04 00 84 c0 0f 85 73 17 00 00 4c 89 74 24 68 41 83 fe 30 0f 93 c0 83 3d 0b c8 c6 15 00 74 02 31 c0 84 c0 0f 85 d0 15 00 00 <44> 89 64 24 38 44 89 bc 24 c8 00 00 00 48 89 5c 24 48 44 8b 65 30
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001f08e0 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88802e3d8ae0 RCX: ffffffff972f6403
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888046cc7300
RBP: ffffc900001f0b28 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d191b6 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffffffff90c33380 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c330139 CR3: 000000005c9cc000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 lock_acquire+0x19e/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:133 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:154
 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline]
 advance_sched+0xbb/0xc70 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:940
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x525/0xc10 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1818
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x39d/0x980 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1880
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1077 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xfb/0x3b0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1094
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9f/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:bytes_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:85 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:102 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned_n mm/kasan/generic.c:127 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned mm/kasan/generic.c:159 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:178 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x89/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:187
Code: 00 fc ff df 4d 8d 34 19 4d 89 f4 4d 29 dc 49 83 fc 10 7f 29 4d 85 e4 0f 84 3d 01 00 00 4c 89 cb 48 f7 d3 4c 01 fb 41 80 3b 00 <0f> 85 8d 01 00 00 49 ff c3 48 ff c3 75 ee e9 1d 01 00 00 44 89 dd
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000cc974d0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff813be201 RBX: fffffffffffffffe RCX: ffffffff813be28e
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000060 RDI: ffffc9000cc97588
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffc9000cc975e7 R09: 1ffff92001992ebc
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52001992ebb R12: 000000000000000c
R13: ffff88802e3d8000 R14: fffff52001992ebd R15: 1ffff92001992eb1
 __asan_memset+0x22/0x40 mm/kasan/shadow.c:84
 __unwind_start+0x3e/0x730 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:688
 unwind_start arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h:64 [inline]
 arch_stack_walk+0xf8/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:24
 stack_trace_save+0xaa/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x125/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:128
 __reset_page_owner+0x4e/0x190 mm/page_owner.c:149
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1182 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7d7/0x8f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2366
 free_unref_page_list+0xbe/0x860 mm/page_alloc.c:2505
 release_pages+0x208a/0x2300 mm/swap.c:1022
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:99 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:294 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu+0x379/0x510 mm/mmu_gather.c:301
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xf4/0x220 mm/mmu_gather.c:425
 exit_mmap+0x428/0xb90 mm/mmap.c:3315
 __mmput+0x118/0x3a0 kernel/fork.c:1362
 exit_mm+0x23f/0x340 kernel/exit.c:576
 do_exit+0x909/0x2530 kernel/exit.c:877
 __do_sys_exit kernel/exit.c:999 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit kernel/exit.c:997 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit+0x40/0x40 kernel/exit.c:997
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fb30ed9e159
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7fb30ed9e12f.
RSP: 002b:00007fb30cff5fd8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000003c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb30f025fa0 RCX: 00007fb30ed9e159
RDX: 00007fb30cff69c8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007fb30ee3503b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb30f026038 R14: 00007fb30f025fa0 R15: 00007fff09f04528
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g117993 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:26824 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6775
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x30d/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: 21836 Comm: syz.5.5168 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:311 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xd85/0x1190 kernel/smp.c:855
Code: 45 8b 34 24 44 89 f6 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 14 01 0b 00 41 83 e6 01 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 07 e8 4f fd 0a 00 eb 38 f3 90 <42> 0f b6 04 33 84 c0 75 11 41 f7 04 24 01 00 00 00 74 1e e8 33 fd
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e99f820 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff817c853d RBX: 1ffff110171e83e1 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000bc09000 RSI: 000000000007ffff RDI: 0000000000080000
RBP: ffffc9000e99f990 R08: ffffffff8e8c8daf R09: 1ffffffff1d191b5
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d191b6 R12: ffff8880b8f41f08
R13: ffff8880b8e3d380 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f6a50f5d6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000440 CR3: 000000001c25d000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 clock_was_set+0x756/0x800 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:990
 timekeeping_inject_offset+0x5d0/0x670 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:1395
 do_adjtimex+0x47c/0xa10 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2444
 do_clock_adjtime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1160 [inline]
 __do_sys_clock_adjtime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1172 [inline]
 __se_sys_clock_adjtime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1163 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clock_adjtime+0x244/0x320 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1163
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f6a4ff9e159
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:00007f6a50f5d028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000131
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6a50225fa0 RCX: 00007f6a4ff9e159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f6a5003503b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6a50226038 R14: 00007f6a50225fa0 R15: 00007fff8cdbf608
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/09 08:11 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f 8387c273 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_exit
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.