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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount (8)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/27 13:07
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+4507914ec56d21bb39ed@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 295d, last: 5d02h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [block?] [ext4?] [btrfs?] INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount (8) 1 (3) 2025/08/27 22:06
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount (6) ntfs 1 C inconclusive 82 804d 1577d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/18 04:52
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount (4) fs 1 2 2149d 2165d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/06/02 15:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount (5) afs 1 C done done 10 1939d 1961d 15/29 fixed on 2020/11/16 12:12
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount 1 2 405d 467d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/22 20:11
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount (3) mm 1 6 2241d 2242d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount nfs 1 1 2647d 2647d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/10/29 13:47
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount (7) fs 1 C inconclusive done 41 394d 636d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/30 13:11
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount (2) exfat 1 1 2597d 2597d 0/29 closed as dup on 2018/12/12 21:01
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mount origin:lts-only 1 C error 3 197d 261d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/05/05 20:18
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount origin:lts-only 1 C inconclusive 7 14d 403d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/12/14 21:36
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_mount origin:lts 1 C error 17 566d 644d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/17 05:03
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __se_sys_mount afs 1 C done done 2 1901d 2025d 15/29 fixed on 2020/12/08 16:15
upstream BUG: soft lockup in sys_mount kernel 1 1 2026d 2025d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/10/04 01:38
Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/09/10 18:20 39m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci OK log
2025/08/27 21:38 27m hdanton@sina.com vfs-fixes OK log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5846/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=9885, q=223 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor292 state:R  running task     stack:25960 pid:5846  tgid:5846  ppid:5841   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5258 [inline]
 __schedule+0x150e/0x5070 kernel/sched/core.c:6866
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7193
 irqentry_exit+0x5d8/0x660 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x16c/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 30 f7 44 24 30 00 02 00 00 0f 85 cd 00 00 00 f7 44 24 08 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 65 48 8b 05 44 41 01 11 <48> 3b 44 24 58 0f 85 e5 00 00 00 48 83 c4 60 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000425f658 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 27524acdd64ae400 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 27524acdd64ae400
RDX: 0000000066223321 RSI: ffffffff8db7ed49 RDI: ffffffff8be07960
RBP: ffffffff81742f85 R08: ffffffff81742f85 R09: ffffffff8e13f2e0
R10: ffffc9000425f818 R11: ffffffff81ad9d50 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8e13f2e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000246
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x23d0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5267 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x37d/0x710 mm/slub.c:5274
 alloc_vfsmnt+0x23/0x430 fs/namespace.c:293
 clone_mnt+0x4b/0x9a0 fs/namespace.c:1252
 copy_tree+0xde/0x930 fs/namespace.c:2165
 do_loopback+0x31d/0x410 fs/namespace.c:2994
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4035 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4224 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x313/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4201
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2fba531c1a
RSP: 002b:00007ffe93061338 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2fba5800f6 RCX: 00007f2fba531c1a
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f2fba5803f8 RDI: 00007f2fba58018e
RBP: 00007f2fba580072 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000045000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f2fba580178
R13: 00007f2fba586e5c R14: 00007f2fba58014e R15: 00007f2fba5ad590
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10543 jiffies! g9885 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=1
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:27456 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5258 [inline]
 __schedule+0x150e/0x5070 kernel/sched/core.c:6866
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6948 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6963
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x599/0xb30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 33 9e 2a 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <e9> 48 ee 02 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197de0 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 4d98a470f0b1d900 RBX: ffffffff819786ba RCX: 4d98a470f0b1d900
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d997e54 RDI: ffffffff8be07960
RBP: ffffc90000197f10 R08: ffff8880b87336db R09: 1ffff110170e66db
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170e66dc R12: ffffffff8fa22f70
R13: 1ffff11003ad6b70 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125d25000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2fb9cbdd58 CR3: 0000000075e0e000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x73/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1ea/0x520 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x44/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 start_secondary+0x101/0x110 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x147
 </TASK>

Crashes (26):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/24 11:26 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2026/01/17 01:41 upstream 983d014aafb1 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount
2025/12/18 04:24 upstream ea1013c15392 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount
2025/12/12 02:42 upstream d358e5254674 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount
2025/06/29 09:23 upstream aaf724ed6926 fc9d8ee5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount
2025/06/09 16:29 upstream 19272b37aa4f 4826c28e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount
2025/04/01 16:36 upstream 08733088b566 d863cf4b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mount
2025/12/05 05:09 upstream 2aa680df6806 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/09/25 23:04 upstream bf40f4b87761 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/08/27 14:14 upstream fab1beda7597 e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/08/11 20:49 upstream 8f5ae30d69d7 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/07/13 20:42 upstream 5d5d62298b8b 3cda49cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/07/03 19:27 upstream 17bbde2e1716 115ceea7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/06/20 08:30 upstream 75f5f23f8787 ed3e87f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/05/14 14:54 upstream 9f35e33144ae a4fa04ef .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/04/21 03:14 upstream 6fea5fabd332 2a20f901 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/11/03 06:52 upstream 6146a0f1dfae 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2026/01/17 08:58 linux-next 46fe65a2c28e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2026/01/01 12:25 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2026/01/01 11:01 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/12/14 05:42 linux-next d9771d0dbe18 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/11/22 22:18 linux-next d724c6f85e80 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2025/09/15 19:53 linux-next 590b221ed425 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in mount
2026/01/05 14:24 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: soft lockup in sys_mount
2025/08/27 09:13 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 8f5ae30d69d7 e12e5ba4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: soft lockup in sys_mount
2025/08/27 05:23 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 8f5ae30d69d7 e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 BUG: soft lockup in sys_mount
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.