| 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 |
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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>
| 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 |