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INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/20 16:30
Reported-by: syzbot+65ac49fdda307761ac49@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d02h, last: 1d02h
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl 1 8 15d 144d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/01/28 08:04
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl 1 1 183d 183d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/30 11:32

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=d37c/0/0x1 softirq=13411/13417 fqs=0
	(t=10501 jiffies g=14729 q=308 ncpus=2)
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g14729 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:27840 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6638
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x303/0x1350 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1905
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </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: 5123 Comm: syz.3.174 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:arch_static_branch arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 [inline]
RIP: 0010:static_key_false include/linux/jump_label.h:207 [inline]
RIP: 0010:native_write_msr arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:147 [inline]
RIP: 0010:wrmsr arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:254 [inline]
RIP: 0010:native_apic_msr_write+0x35/0x50 arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:206
Code: 74 2a 83 ff 30 74 25 eb 10 81 ff d0 00 00 00 74 1b 81 ff e0 00 00 00 74 13 c1 ef 04 81 c7 00 08 00 00 89 f9 89 f0 31 d2 0f 30 <66> 90 c3 89 f6 31 d2 e9 ff 50 00 03 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007e60 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 00000000000208aa RBX: 00000000000208aa RCX: 0000000000000838
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000208aa RDI: 0000000000000838
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8e200f6f R09: 1ffffffff1c401ed
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c401ee R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000010007068 R14: ffffffff8c651b40 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007efcc71f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000058 CR3: 0000000078e4f000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 apic_write arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:394 [inline]
 lapic_next_event+0x5b/0x70 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:478
 clockevents_program_event+0x1bc/0x310 kernel/time/clockevents.c:334
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x561/0x980 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1890
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1107 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x153/0x5a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1124
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9b/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x225/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5666
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 04 f8 0f 85 f0 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:ffffc900044dfa00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 419247a0e69dcb00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c2920 RDI: ffffffff8adee1a0
RBP: ffffc900044dfb08 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff215e44a
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff215e44b R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 1ffff9200089bf4c R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 fs_reclaim_acquire+0x94/0x100 mm/page_alloc.c:4766
 might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:271 [inline]
 slab_pre_alloc_hook+0x2a/0x300 mm/slab.h:710
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3279 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3367 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3374 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x56/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:3383
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:689 [inline]
 locks_alloc_lock fs/locks.c:270 [inline]
 fcntl_setlk+0xa5/0x10e0 fs/locks.c:2360
 do_fcntl+0x543/0x1280 fs/fcntl.c:355
 __do_sys_fcntl fs/fcntl.c:446 [inline]
 __se_sys_fcntl+0xc9/0x190 fs/fcntl.c:431
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7efcc8f9ce59
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:00007efcc71f6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000048
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007efcc9215fa0 RCX: 00007efcc8f9ce59
RDX: 0000200000000280 RSI: 0000000000000026 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007efcc9032e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007efcc9216038 R14: 00007efcc9215fa0 R15: 00007fffaba7ccb8
 </TASK>
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:742
Code: 48 89 df e8 47 77 9e f7 e9 44 ff ff ff e8 2d 08 f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 66 90 0f 00 2d 97 d5 51 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000177de8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 1faddade16a7ff00 RBX: ffffffff8a34d677 RCX: 1faddade16a7ff00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a8c17a0 RDI: ffffffff8adee1a0
RBP: ffffc90000177f20 R08: ffff8880b8f3580b R09: 1ffff110171e6b01
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6b02 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff888017739e00 R15: 1ffff9200002efc8
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007efcc71d4ff8 CR3: 0000000078e4f000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 default_idle_call+0x84/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:109
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x250/0x680 kernel/sched/idle.c:323
 cpu_startup_entry+0x3f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:422
 start_secondary+0xe4/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:281
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xcf/0xdb
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/20 16:30 linux-6.1.y fdb6fcb41cc7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.