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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (4)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/07 07:00
Reported-by: syzbot+4b9bc91b2875afe7c11c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 97d, last: 15d
Similar bugs (12)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) kernel 1 3 1096d 1156d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/24 08:02
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink 1 1 865d 865d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/08 09:32
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink fs 1 1 1360d 1360d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/07/22 05:22
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) 1 3 530d 555d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/07 23:07
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (4) fs 1 2 770d 773d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/02 18:22
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) 1 2 178d 205d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/26 06:03
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink 1 4 339d 529d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/18 03:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (3) bpf fs 1 2 972d 978d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/14 04:05
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (5) kernfs mm 1 syz done 42 1d09h 450d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/10/18 11:28
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink 1 1 42d 42d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/11/30 09:31
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (3) 1 3 201d 334d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/02 16:41
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_readlink 1 2 580d 639d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/08 11:06

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5644/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=16313, q=519)
task:udevadm         state:R  running task     stack:27168 pid: 5644 ppid:  4618 flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6799
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:432
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5627
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f6 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3d 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 0b
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000344f940 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: e3f7ba10a09a2e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b2e80 RDI: ffffffff8a59e800
RBP: ffffc9000344fa48 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff5419
R10: fffffbfff1ff5419 R11: 1ffffffff1ff5418 R12: ffffffff8c11c720
R13: 1ffff92000689f34 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:313
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:740 [inline]
 dput+0x35/0x1a0 fs/dcache.c:879
 step_into+0x31d/0xd00 fs/namei.c:1823
 lookup_last fs/namei.c:2439 [inline]
 path_lookupat+0x169/0x440 fs/namei.c:2463
 filename_lookup+0x1e2/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:2492
 user_path_at_empty+0x40/0x190 fs/namei.c:2891
 do_readlinkat+0xd4/0x480 fs/stat.c:442
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:475 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:472 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x7b/0x90 fs/stat.c:472
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fc6fe12e3a7
RSP: 002b:00007fff653e02e8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000059
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fff653e0b30 RCX: 00007fc6fe12e3a7
RDX: 0000000000000400 RSI: 00007fff653e06f0 RDI: 00007fff653e02f0
RBP: 0000000000000200 R08: 000055568bf9bae2 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fff653e02f0
R13: 00007fff653e06f0 R14: 00005556a7c55d60 R15: 00005556a7c65e60
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9669 jiffies! g16313 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:28064 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x29e/0x11b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x98/0x350 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:729

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/27 17:59 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/11/05 19:00 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/10/28 18:06 linux-5.15.y ac56c046adf4 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/10/07 06:59 linux-5.15.y 29e53a5b1c4f 8ef35d49 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.