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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/16 08:53
Reported-by: syzbot+471267bdd2a353fe2917@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d01h, last: 3d01h
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock mm 1 1 463d 463d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/11 05:27
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock 1 1 89d 89d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/06/21 15:14
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock (2) kasan mm 1 2 315d 327d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/05 20:37
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock 1 1 491d 491d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/23 11:10

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P8657/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=39513, q=969 ncpus=2)
task:syz.9.524       state:R  running task     stack:27048 pid:8657  ppid:8346   flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:7009
 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:lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x410 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f5 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3c 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3c 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3c 0b 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003187440 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 2c241a6cc7ef1f00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aaace20 RDI: ffffffff8afc72c0
RBP: ffffc90003187548 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff21b4ea0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff21b4ea1 R12: 1ffff92000630e94
R13: ffffffff8cd2fe20 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 page_ext_get+0x3e/0x2b0 mm/page_ext.c:508
 __page_table_check_zero+0x138/0x4b0 mm/page_table_check.c:148
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
 __alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
 __folio_alloc+0x10/0x20 mm/page_alloc.c:4489
 vma_alloc_folio+0x47a/0x8f0 mm/mempolicy.c:2242
 do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:4149 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:3686 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5025 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5166 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1a38/0x4920 mm/memory.c:5331
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:868 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x5ea/0x1470 mm/gup.c:1167
 populate_vma_page_range+0x2b6/0x370 mm/gup.c:1593
 __mm_populate+0x24c/0x380 mm/gup.c:1696
 do_mlock+0x58d/0x6f0 mm/mlock.c:616
 __do_sys_mlock mm/mlock.c:624 [inline]
 __se_sys_mlock mm/mlock.c:622 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mlock+0x60/0x70 mm/mlock.c:622
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fd44c18eba9
RSP: 002b:00007fd44cfd6038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000095
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd44c3d6090 RCX: 00007fd44c18eba9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000800000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007fd44c211e19 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fd44c3d6128 R14: 00007fd44c3d6090 R15: 00007fff840b76a8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10450 jiffies! g39513 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:27432 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6773
 schedule_timeout+0x160/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:2167
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x302/0x1560 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x380 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 08/18/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: 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 a3 18 3a 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <c3> cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8ca07d80 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 539fcd5a5c1b2d00 RBX: ffffffff8161925b RCX: 539fcd5a5c1b2d00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8aaabca0 RDI: ffffffff8afc72c0
RBP: ffffffff8ca07eb8 R08: ffff8880b8e36d6b R09: 1ffff110171c6dad
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6dae R12: ffffffff8e4a94e8
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffffffff1952670
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055f42c6ab088 CR3: 0000000076bc4000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
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:170 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1eb/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:282
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:380
 rest_init+0x2e2/0x300 init/main.c:732
 arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10 init/main.c:829
 start_kernel+0x459/0x4e0 init/main.c:1074
 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 (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/16 08:52 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.