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: 228d, last: 3d06h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill prio:high mm 1 syz, C error 86 12h42m 89d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/20 03:58
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill origin:lts-only 1 syz, C error 9 10d 134d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/06 04:01
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill 1 16 1d07h 239d 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): P8904/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=41237, q=206 ncpus=2)
task:syz.5.517       state:R  running task     stack:18536 pid:8904  ppid:6382   flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbf/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7011
 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:unwind_get_return_address+0x0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:365
Code: 3f ff ff ff 89 d9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 49 ff ff ff 48 89 df e8 ae 51 a4 00 e9 3c ff ff ff e8 54 17 54 09 0f 1f 40 00 <f3> 0f 1e fa 55 41 57 41 56 53 48 89 fb 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000fecef20 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81331c62 RBX: ffffc9000fecefe0 RCX: ffff888024909e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: ffffc9000fecef28
RBP: ffffc9000fecefb0 R08: ffff888024909e00 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81525eed
R13: 1ffff1100492146f R14: ffffffff81761ea0 R15: ffffc9000fecef28
 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: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
 __folio_batch_release+0x71/0xe0 mm/swap.c:1042
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:83 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x5ff/0x1a80 mm/shmem.c:1026
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1135 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x285/0xa70 mm/shmem.c:1264
 evict+0x4b7/0x8a0 fs/inode.c:705
 __dentry_kill+0x412/0x630 fs/dcache.c:611
 dentry_kill+0xb8/0x290 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0xfe/0x1e0 fs/dcache.c:918
 __fput+0x5b2/0x940 fs/file_table.c:426
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:245
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0x986/0x2530 kernel/exit.c:890
 do_group_exit+0x22d/0x2f0 kernel/exit.c:1032
 get_signal+0x12a6/0x1390 kernel/signal.c:2911
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc2/0x7b0 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: 0033:0x7fd485a53bd7
RSP: 002b:00007fd486a81120 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000b RCX: 00007fd485b9e159
RDX: 00007fd486a81140 RSI: 00007fd486a81270 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: 00007fd485c3503b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fd485e26038 R14: 00007fd485e25fa0 R15: 00007ffc873291c8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10559 jiffies! g41237 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:27848 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:
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 09/08/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: b9 19 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 63 76 38 00 fb f4 <c3> 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 50 8b 2f eb 2c 89 cb 80 f9
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8ce07d80 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 94bd262061a77f00 RBX: ffffffff81631c41 RCX: 94bd262061a77f00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acacce0 RDI: ffffffff8b1d35e0
RBP: ffffffff8ce07eb8 R08: ffff8880b8e36b6b R09: 1ffff110171c6d6d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6d6e 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: 000000110c44e5c1 CR3: 000000006129b000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
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+0x221/0x5c0 kernel/sched/idle.c:302
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 rest_init+0x2e2/0x300 init/main.c:705
 arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10 init/main.c:801
 start_kernel+0x461/0x4e0 init/main.c:1046
 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 (20):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/14 10:19 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/09/09 21:11 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f 4e8b1cc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/08/28 12:10 linux-6.6.y a4a971135a2f e2fa417d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/08/27 20:21 linux-6.6.y 93e0c9521fa8 69a01293 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/08/27 00:40 linux-6.6.y dc6160265ffc a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/07/29 06:04 linux-6.6.y c5596480c50e 19622d9d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/07/25 01:28 linux-6.6.y da47cbc25466 dd737a83 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/06/25 09:12 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 cfa969bf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/06/24 04:29 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 042555ff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/06/07 19:47 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/06/05 08:59 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/06/02 07:41 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb 1095583b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/05/13 05:37 linux-6.6.y 3b9f64db0496 a0949470 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/05/04 17:51 linux-6.6.y 258cf62a6dfd 85f1bcf2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/04/15 09:36 linux-6.6.y 8cee53b8eaeb e2e976a8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/04/13 05:14 linux-6.6.y 8cee53b8eaeb 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/04/12 10:28 linux-6.6.y 8cee53b8eaeb 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/03/26 05:39 linux-6.6.y c09fbcd31ae6 c6143aac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
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.