INFO: rcu detected stall in unix_stream_connect (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/07 13:52
Reported-by: syzbot+659311986c8ec407d212@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 72d, last: 50d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in unix_stream_connect 1 2 204d 205d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/06 05:16

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=b65/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=6285/6286 fqs=51 
	(t=10502 jiffies g=5785 q=577)
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10401 jiffies! g5785 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:27024 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4350 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2117
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2be/0x11f0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9a/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x42e/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
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 4274 Comm: syz.0.1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x22d/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:349
 print_cpu_stall+0x31f/0x5f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:633
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:727 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x6ec/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4b0/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x397/0x8b0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9b/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x208/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5627
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 04 f8 0f 85 f1 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 43 c7 44 3d 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000326fb00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0573d0f3511e0c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b3e80 RDI: ffffffff8a79c980
RBP: ffffc9000326fc08 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff2039618
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2039619 R12: ffffffff8c31ef20
R13: 1ffff9200064df6c R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:313
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:740 [inline]
 percpu_ref_tryget_many include/linux/percpu-refcount.h:241 [inline]
 percpu_ref_tryget include/linux/percpu-refcount.h:266 [inline]
 css_tryget include/linux/cgroup.h:355 [inline]
 cgroup_tryget+0x52/0x270 include/linux/cgroup.h:428
 cgroup_sk_alloc+0x223/0x380 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:6772
 sk_alloc+0x20b/0x310 net/core/sock.c:1942
 unix_create1+0xad/0x610 net/unix/af_unix.c:-1
 unix_stream_connect+0x308/0xf80 net/unix/af_unix.c:1352
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1933 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3cb/0x450 net/socket.c:1950
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1960 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1957 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x76/0x80 net/socket.c:1957
 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: 0033:0x7f613e87ce59
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f613cad6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f613eaf5fa0 RCX: 00007f613e87ce59
RDX: 000000000000006e RSI: 0000200000000440 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f613e912e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f613eaf6038 R14: 00007f613eaf5fa0 R15: 00007ffc0da30528
 </TASK>
sched: RT throttling activated
hrtimer: interrupt took 620082171 ns

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/29 15:38 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 6a0c72dc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in unix_stream_connect
2026/06/07 13:51 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in unix_stream_connect
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.