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INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/13 15:44
Reported-by: syzbot+7452a1b0698e4c564298@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 107d, last: 30d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file 1 1 372d 372d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/01 14:21
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file (2) 1 1 218d 218d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/02 23:08

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-...!: (1 ticks this GP) idle=e79/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=51293/51293 fqs=0 
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=76581, q=605)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 17511 Comm: syz.7.3280 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x0/0x870 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5631
Code: 89 d9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c c1 f8 ff ff 48 89 df e8 b2 b8 5f 00 e9 b4 f8 ff ff bb 2f 00 00 00 e9 ca f8 ff ff 0f 1f 00 <55> 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 e4 e0 48 81 ec e0 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000075f8 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff8198b4ae RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff8880222b1dc0
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: ffffffff8198b4a9 RDI: ffffffff8c11c760
RBP: ffffc90000007710 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed10172067af
R10: ffffed10172067af R11: 1ffff110172067ae R12: 00000000ffffffe4
R13: 1ffff92000000ec4 R14: ffffc90000007640 R15: ffffc90000007800
FS:  000055557b482500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f050af13dac CR3: 000000002441c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:773 [inline]
 __perf_event_output kernel/events/core.c:7813 [inline]
 perf_event_output_forward+0x222/0x280 kernel/events/core.c:7822
 __perf_event_overflow+0x364/0x530 kernel/events/core.c:9515
 perf_tp_event+0x32c/0xb50 kernel/events/core.c:10047
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10021
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2be/0x380 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x84/0x480 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: f1 f1 f1 00 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 66 42 c7 44 2b 09 f3 f3 42 c6 44 2b 0b f3 65 44 8b 35 ed 11 9e 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 45 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 2b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007c60 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 48d1bd3fd5c88b00 RBX: 1ffff92000000f90 RCX: 48d1bd3fd5c88b00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1c60 RDI: ffffffff8a59e580
RBP: ffffc90000007d28 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff7c1f
R10: fffffbfff1ff7c1f R11: 1ffffffff1ff7c1e R12: ffffffff8c120c00
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 rebalance_domains+0xa51/0xb80 kernel/sched/fair.c:10660
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 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:on_stack arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:55 [inline]
RIP: 0010:stack_access_ok arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:347 [inline]
RIP: 0010:deref_stack_reg+0x2d/0x120 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:357
Code: 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 89 d3 49 89 f6 49 89 ff 49 bc 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 83 c7 08 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 <74> 05 e8 cc 9d 87 00 4d 8b 6f 08 49 8d 7f 10 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000317f0b0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 1ffff9200062fe36 RBX: ffffc9000317f1e8 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffffc9000317f1e8 RSI: ffffc9000317f798 RDI: ffffc9000317f1b0
RBP: ffffc9000317f1f0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffc9000317f1f8
R10: fffff5200062fe41 R11: 1ffff9200062fe3f R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffc9000317f798 R15: ffffc9000317f1a8
 unwind_next_frame+0x115d/0x1d90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:-1
 arch_stack_walk+0x10c/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x98/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf3/0x1e0 mm/page_owner.c:119
 __set_page_owner+0x41/0x2d0 mm/page_owner.c:181
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1b77/0x1c60 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1e1/0x470 mm/page_alloc.c:5487
 __get_free_pages+0x8/0x30 mm/page_alloc.c:5524
 kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte+0x21/0xc0 mm/kasan/shadow.c:266
 apply_to_pte_range mm/memory.c:2573 [inline]
 apply_to_pmd_range mm/memory.c:2617 [inline]
 apply_to_pud_range mm/memory.c:2653 [inline]
 apply_to_p4d_range mm/memory.c:2689 [inline]
 __apply_to_page_range+0x983/0xd10 mm/memory.c:2725
 alloc_vmap_area+0x19f7/0x1b20 mm/vmalloc.c:1572
 __get_vm_area_node+0x14f/0x2d0 mm/vmalloc.c:2430
 __vmalloc_node_range+0xef/0x8b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3027
 vmalloc_user+0x70/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3173
 kcov_mmap+0x27/0x120 kernel/kcov.c:474
 call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:2178 [inline]
 mmap_file+0x5d/0xb0 mm/util.c:1092
 __mmap_region mm/mmap.c:1796 [inline]
 mmap_region+0xf8f/0x1660 mm/mmap.c:2933
 do_mmap+0x81f/0xea0 mm/mmap.c:1586
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x1b2/0x2b0 mm/util.c:551
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x542/0x780 mm/mmap.c:1635
 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: 0033:0x7f40354b9783
Code: f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 41 89 ca 41 f7 c1 ff 0f 00 00 75 14 b8 09 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 25 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 c7 c0 a8 ff ff ff 64 c7
RSP: 002b:00007ffd10d0eb88 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4035710308 RCX: 00007f40354b9783
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 00007f40332bd000
RBP: 00007f4035710270 R08: 00000000000000db R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000011 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007f4035710270 R14: 0000000000000095 R15: 0000000000000003
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10501 jiffies! g76581 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=35085
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g76581 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:27232 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
CPU: 0 PID: 17511 Comm: syz.7.3280 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:bytes_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:85 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:102 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned_n mm/kasan/generic.c:128 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned mm/kasan/generic.c:159 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:180 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x77/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
Code: 0c 03 48 8d 5c 37 ff 48 c1 eb 03 4e 8d 14 3b 4d 89 d6 4d 29 ce 49 83 fe 10 7f 26 4d 85 f6 0f 84 39 01 00 00 48 f7 d3 4c 01 db <41> 80 39 00 0f 85 c1 01 00 00 49 ff c1 48 ff c3 75 ee e9 1c 01 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007488 EFLAGS: 00000086
RAX: ffffffff81839301 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: ffffffff81839333
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff8880b903b1f8
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed101720763f
R10: ffffed1017207640 R11: 1ffff1101720763f R12: ffff8880b903b208
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: dffffc0000000001
FS:  000055557b482500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f050af13dac CR3: 000000002441c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_or include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:384 [inline]
 irq_work_claim kernel/irq_work.c:34 [inline]
 irq_work_queue_on+0x83/0x220 kernel/irq_work.c:98
 rcu_read_unlock_special+0x379/0x480 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:667
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 __perf_event_output kernel/events/core.c:7813 [inline]
 perf_event_output_forward+0x216/0x280 kernel/events/core.c:7822
 __perf_event_overflow+0x364/0x530 kernel/events/core.c:9515
 perf_tp_event+0x32c/0xb50 kernel/events/core.c:10047
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10021
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2be/0x380 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x84/0x480 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: f1 f1 f1 00 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 66 42 c7 44 2b 09 f3 f3 42 c6 44 2b 0b f3 65 44 8b 35 ed 11 9e 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 45 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 2b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007c60 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 48d1bd3fd5c88b00 RBX: 1ffff92000000f90 RCX: 48d1bd3fd5c88b00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1c60 RDI: ffffffff8a59e580
RBP: ffffc90000007d28 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff7c1f
R10: fffffbfff1ff7c1f R11: 1ffffffff1ff7c1e R12: ffffffff8c120c00
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 rebalance_domains+0xa51/0xb80 kernel/sched/fair.c:10660
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 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:on_stack arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:55 [inline]
RIP: 0010:stack_access_ok arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:347 [inline]
RIP: 0010:deref_stack_reg+0x2d/0x120 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:357
Code: 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 89 d3 49 89 f6 49 89 ff 49 bc 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 83 c7 08 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 <74> 05 e8 cc 9d 87 00 4d 8b 6f 08 49 8d 7f 10 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000317f0b0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 1ffff9200062fe36 RBX: ffffc9000317f1e8 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffffc9000317f1e8 RSI: ffffc9000317f798 RDI: ffffc9000317f1b0
RBP: ffffc9000317f1f0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffc9000317f1f8
R10: fffff5200062fe41 R11: 1ffff9200062fe3f R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffc9000317f798 R15: ffffc9000317f1a8
 unwind_next_frame+0x115d/0x1d90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:-1
 arch_stack_walk+0x10c/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x98/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf3/0x1e0 mm/page_owner.c:119
 __set_page_owner+0x41/0x2d0 mm/page_owner.c:181
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1b77/0x1c60 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1e1/0x470 mm/page_alloc.c:5487
 __get_free_pages+0x8/0x30 mm/page_alloc.c:5524
 kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte+0x21/0xc0 mm/kasan/shadow.c:266
 apply_to_pte_range mm/memory.c:2573 [inline]
 apply_to_pmd_range mm/memory.c:2617 [inline]
 apply_to_pud_range mm/memory.c:2653 [inline]
 apply_to_p4d_range mm/memory.c:2689 [inline]
 __apply_to_page_range+0x983/0xd10 mm/memory.c:2725
 alloc_vmap_area+0x19f7/0x1b20 mm/vmalloc.c:1572
 __get_vm_area_node+0x14f/0x2d0 mm/vmalloc.c:2430
 __vmalloc_node_range+0xef/0x8b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3027
 vmalloc_user+0x70/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3173
 kcov_mmap+0x27/0x120 kernel/kcov.c:474
 call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:2178 [inline]
 mmap_file+0x5d/0xb0 mm/util.c:1092
 __mmap_region mm/mmap.c:1796 [inline]
 mmap_region+0xf8f/0x1660 mm/mmap.c:2933
 do_mmap+0x81f/0xea0 mm/mmap.c:1586
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x1b2/0x2b0 mm/util.c:551
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x542/0x780 mm/mmap.c:1635
 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: 0033:0x7f40354b9783
Code: f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 41 89 ca 41 f7 c1 ff 0f 00 00 75 14 b8 09 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 25 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 c7 c0 a8 ff ff ff 64 c7
RSP: 002b:00007ffd10d0eb88 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4035710308 RCX: 00007f40354b9783
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 00007f40332bd000
RBP: 00007f4035710270 R08: 00000000000000db R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000011 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007f4035710270 R14: 0000000000000095 R15: 0000000000000003
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/29 09:18 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file
2025/09/13 15:43 linux-5.15.y 43bb85222e53 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.