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INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/01 10:07
Reported-by: syzbot+40ef4113d0cb4e05dc9b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 11d, last: 3d08h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill 1 5 4d14h 23d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/01/20 19:30

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P17331/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=78565, q=435 ncpus=2)
task:syz.0.2563      state:R  running task     stack:22920 pid:17331 ppid:5764   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:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:193 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x36/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:216
Code: 00 a1 7c 7e 65 8b 15 01 a1 7c 7e 81 e2 00 01 ff 00 74 11 81 fa 00 01 00 00 75 35 83 b9 1c 16 00 00 00 74 2c 8b 91 f8 15 00 00 <83> fa 02 75 21 48 8b 91 00 16 00 00 48 8b 32 48 8d 7e 01 8b 89 fc
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004c66e98 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff813b349c RBX: ffffc90004c66ec8 RCX: ffff88802109bc00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: ffffc90004c66ec8
RBP: ffffc90004c66f50 R08: ffff88802109bc00 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81d3052e
R13: 1ffff1100421382e R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc90004c66ec8
 unwind_get_return_address+0x1c/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:365
 arch_stack_walk+0x11d/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 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:1181 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7b2/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2365
 free_unref_page_list+0xbe/0x860 mm/page_alloc.c:2504
 release_pages+0x1f7a/0x2200 mm/swap.c:1022
 __folio_batch_release+0x71/0xe0 mm/swap.c:1042
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:83 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x630/0x1b20 mm/shmem.c:1026
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1135 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x245/0x9e0 mm/shmem.c:1264
 evict+0x4ca/0x8d0 fs/inode.c:705
 __dentry_kill+0x431/0x650 fs/dcache.c:611
 dentry_kill+0xb8/0x290 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0xfe/0x1e0 fs/dcache.c:918
 __fput+0x5e5/0x970 fs/file_table.c:392
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:245
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0x95a/0x2460 kernel/exit.c:883
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1024
 get_signal+0x12fc/0x13f0 kernel/signal.c:2902
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc2/0x800 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:310
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:315
 exc_page_fault+0x8c/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1519
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0033:0x7f50ea39af81
RSP: 002b:fffffffffffffe70 EFLAGS: 00010217
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f50ea615fa0 RCX: 00007f50ea39af79
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: fffffffffffffe70 RDI: 0000000000008000
RBP: 00007f50ea4316e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f50ea616038 R14: 00007f50ea615fa0 R15: 00007ffd14c908d8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10550 jiffies! g78565 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=102859
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10551 jiffies! g78565 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:27368 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 1283 Comm: aoe_tx0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
RIP: 0010:do_raw_spin_lock+0x1f/0x2c0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:113
Code: 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 e4 e0 48 81 ec 80 00 00 00 48 89 fb <65> 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 60 49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004def800 EFLAGS: 00000086
RAX: 30641ac078b05a00 RBX: ffffffff975efd00 RCX: 30641ac078b05a00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acada80 RDI: ffffffff975efd00
RBP: ffffc90004def8b0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff2237ea1
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2237ea2 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000a06 R15: 1ffff920009bdf18
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f79ceff6d58 CR3: 000000002e6d0000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:111 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xc0/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 uart_write_room+0xe7/0x2c0 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:645
 handle_tx+0x15e/0x610 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:226
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4943 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4957 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3632 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x246/0x740 net/core/dev.c:3648
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1ac2/0x36b0 net/core/dev.c:4438
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3113 [inline]
 tx+0x6b/0x180 drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:63
 kthread+0x1d2/0x3b0 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1241
 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>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/09 16:02 linux-6.6.y c56aaf1a85ae df949cd9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/02/01 10:07 linux-6.6.y 2cf6f68313dc 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.