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INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2023/10/07 20:25
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+628d3507228ad7472be1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1367d, last: 19d
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Fix bisection: the issue occurs on the latest tested release (bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [kernel?] INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime (2) 0 (1) 2023/10/07 20:25
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime kernel 1 2 1509d 1519d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __do_sys_clock_adjtime kernel 1 C done inconclusive 17 1686d 2010d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/05 19:07
Last patch testing requests (11)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/01/10 14:44 30m retest repro upstream OK log
2025/12/20 21:58 18m retest repro upstream report log
2025/12/20 21:19 28m retest repro upstream report log
2025/12/20 21:19 30m retest repro upstream report log
2025/12/06 19:54 19m retest repro upstream report log
2025/10/23 04:02 21m retest repro upstream report log
2025/10/10 07:25 57m retest repro upstream report log
2025/10/03 22:42 23m retest repro upstream report log
2025/09/14 17:39 17m retest repro upstream report log
2025/08/01 00:20 37m retest repro upstream report log
2023/10/08 11:41 23m hdanton@sina.com patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master OK log
Fix bisection attempts (8)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/13 14:30 7h05m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log
2025/07/11 15:57 5h10m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2025/04/13 05:29 3h19m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2025/03/13 15:03 3h37m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2025/01/14 17:33 4h44m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2024/10/15 17:24 5h37m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2024/08/29 02:44 2h49m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2024/03/12 06:34 2h13m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0-...D } 2688 jiffies s: 557 root: 0x1/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 5068 Comm: syz-executor299 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc1-syzkaller-00286-g168174d78157 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023
RIP: 0010:hlock_class+0x56/0x130 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:228
Code: 20 66 81 e3 ff 1f 0f b7 db be 08 00 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 06 48 8d 3c c5 40 6f 15 92 e8 c2 67 78 00 48 0f a3 1d 0a da ad 10 <73> 0f 48 69 c3 c8 00 00 00 5b 48 05 60 73 15 92 c3 48 c7 c0 a0 56
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007ae8 EFLAGS: 00000047
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff8167952e
RDX: fffffbfff242ade9 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff92156f40
RBP: ffffffff9215c3d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff242ade8
R10: ffffffff92156f47 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff88802812a8d0
R13: ffffed100502550f R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000002
FS:  00007f8d749ff6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000600 CR3: 000000001cde8000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <NMI>
 </NMI>
 <IRQ>
 lookup_chain_cache_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3781 [inline]
 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3837 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0x1502/0x3b30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5137
 lock_acquire kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x1ae/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5719
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 debug_object_deactivate+0x138/0x370 lib/debugobjects.c:763
 debug_hrtimer_deactivate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:427 [inline]
 debug_deactivate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:483 [inline]
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1656 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x470/0xc20 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1752
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x31b/0x800 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1814
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1065 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x105/0x400 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1082
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x90/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1076
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:649
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x31/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: f5 53 48 8b 74 24 10 48 89 fb 48 83 c7 18 e8 e6 a5 d6 f6 48 89 df e8 de 1d d7 f6 f7 c5 00 02 00 00 75 1f 9c 58 f6 c4 02 75 2f <bf> 01 00 00 00 e8 d5 bd c8 f6 65 8b 05 96 f2 71 75 85 c0 74 12 5b
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000430fa60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000006 RBX: ffff8880b982bac0 RCX: 1ffffffff242af27
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8accae80 RDI: ffffffff8b2fd380
RBP: 0000000000000286 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbfff242ade8
R10: ffffffff92156f47 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: fffffe32150ec417
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000eeb5ec417 R15: dffffc0000000000
 clock_was_set+0x592/0x850 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:972
 timekeeping_inject_offset+0x4d1/0x640 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:1395
 do_adjtimex+0x373/0xaa0 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2444
 do_clock_adjtime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1159 [inline]
 __do_sys_clock_adjtime+0x173/0x280 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1171
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b
RIP: 0033:0x7f8d75253069
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 81 1f 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f8d749ff168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000131
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8d752dc1c8 RCX: 00007f8d75253069
RDX: ffffffffffffffb0 RSI: 0000000020000200 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f8d752dc1c0 R08: 00007f8d749ff6c0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007f8d749ff6c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f8d752dc1cc
R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007ffc71294930 R15: 00007ffc71294a18
 </TASK>

Crashes (112):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2024/01/27 04:55 upstream 168174d78157 cc4a4020 .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/11/11 22:10 upstream 3ca112b71f35 6d6dbf8a .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/10/07 20:24 upstream 82714078aee4 5e837c76 .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2025/12/27 12:42 upstream 3f0e9c8cefa9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2025/11/22 19:47 upstream 89edd36fd801 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2025/06/04 19:04 upstream 1af80d00e1e0 fd5e6e61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2025/05/22 22:45 upstream d608703fcdd9 0919b50b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2025/05/08 13:29 upstream d76bb1ebb558 dbf35fa1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2025/01/28 07:04 upstream 9c5968db9e62 18070896 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/12/11 03:56 upstream 7cb1b4663150 cfc402b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/11/29 22:40 upstream 509f806f7f70 68914665 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/11/27 19:51 upstream aaf20f870da0 5df23865 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/11/27 08:16 upstream 445d9f05fa14 52b38cc1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/11/02 01:01 upstream 6c52d4da1c74 f00eed24 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/10/20 22:17 upstream c55228220dd3 cd6fc0a3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/09/01 16:15 upstream 431c1646e1f8 1eda0d14 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/09/01 03:31 upstream e8784b0aef62 1eda0d14 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/07/30 00:07 upstream dc1c8034e31b 5187fc86 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/06/21 03:36 upstream 50736169ecc8 dac2aa43 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/06/13 06:10 upstream cea2a26553ac 2aa5052f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/05/15 19:00 upstream 1b294a1f3561 0b3dad46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/05/12 09:08 upstream cf87f46fd34d 9026e142 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/05/12 01:41 upstream cf87f46fd34d 9026e142 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/05/03 12:02 upstream f03359bca01b 375d4445 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/04/30 10:57 upstream 98369dccd2f8 27e33c58 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/04/29 18:48 upstream b947cc5bf6d7 27e33c58 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/04/25 09:21 upstream e88c4cfcb7b8 8bdc0f22 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/04/07 04:43 upstream fe46a7dd189e ca620dd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/04/01 11:04 upstream fe46a7dd189e 6baf5069 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/03/31 02:14 upstream fe46a7dd189e 6baf5069 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/03/27 21:22 upstream fe46a7dd189e 454571b6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/03/15 02:33 upstream fe46a7dd189e d615901c .config console log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/01/25 13:47 upstream 6098d87eaf31 1e153dc8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/01/25 01:02 upstream 443b349019f2 1e153dc8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2024/01/18 02:23 upstream 1b1934dbbdcf 915053c7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/12/30 05:47 upstream f016f7547aee fb427a07 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/12/22 20:40 upstream 5414aea7b750 fb427a07 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/12/21 02:41 upstream 1a44b0073b92 4f9530a3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/12/20 14:47 upstream 55cb5f43689d 3ad490ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/12/20 00:17 upstream 55cb5f43689d 3ad490ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/11/24 01:00 upstream d3fa86b1a7b4 fc59b78e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/11/05 03:02 upstream aea6bf908d73 500bfdc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/10/15 00:52 upstream 70f8c6f8f880 6388bc36 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/07/07 07:45 upstream a452483508d7 22ae5830 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/05/09 23:22 upstream 1dc3731daf1f 30aa2a7e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/05/01 23:57 upstream c8c655c34e33 62df2017 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2022/04/19 21:06 upstream 559089e0a93d c334415e .config console log report info ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/12/18 10:55 linux-next ceb2fe0d4386 3222d10c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/12/13 07:56 linux-next 48e8992e33ab ebcad15c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/12/06 09:39 linux-next 577a4ee0b96f f819d6f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/11/30 07:41 linux-next 3cd3fe06ff81 f819d6f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/11/13 05:05 linux-next d173336e238b 6d6dbf8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/11/04 14:08 linux-next e27090b1413f 500bfdc4 .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/10/28 09:25 linux-next 66f1e1ea3548 3c418d72 .config console log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/10/27 04:23 linux-next 2ef7141596ee bf285f0c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
2023/05/09 16:27 linux-next 52025ebbb518 30aa2a7e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clock_adjtime
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.