INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/07 01:39
Reported-by: syzbot+77594b6302d7010c94e4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10h20m, last: 10h20m
Similar bugs (27)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (6) netfilter 1 1 2067d 2067d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/03/09 03:20
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler 1 1 156d 156d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/12 03:02
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (8) net 1 syz, C done done 72 726d 785d 28/29 fixed on 2024/10/21 12:45
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler net 1 1 2813d 2813d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/05/23 06:47
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (2) net 1 2 2522d 2524d 13/29 fixed on 2019/10/09 10:54
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (4) net 1 1 2438d 2438d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler 1 1 327d 327d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/23 11:36
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (5) net 1 1 2170d 2170d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/11/26 10:25
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (2) 1 1 12d 12d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/25 18:11
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (2) 1 2 163d 165d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/04 18:05
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (3) net 1 2 2442d 2442d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/11/29 14:24
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (3) 1 1 296d 296d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/23 04:30
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (7) net 1 1 1942d 1942d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/07/11 19:14
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler (2) 1 1 550d 550d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/14 07:23
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler 1 5 2287d 2407d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/08/30 16:21
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler 1 4 681d 791d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/03 05:12
upstream BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler (2) net 1 2 561d 591d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/02/28 15:46
upstream BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler (4) perf 1 1 132d 132d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2026/05/19 12:17
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler 1 2 1079d 1087d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/22 05:43
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler 1 4 1364d 1622d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/03/12 06:57
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler (2) 1 5 449d 534d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/13 05:16
linux-4.14 BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler 1 3 1632d 1675d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/16 21:59
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler 1 1 27d 27d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/07/10 13:24
upstream BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler (3) batman 1 2 460d 461d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/01 18:42
android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler 1 2 993d 1015d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/16 02:11
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler 1 3 777d 789d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/18 13:19
upstream BUG: soft lockup in neigh_timer_handler net 1 1 1111d 1086d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/20 21:15

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=c8d/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=25539/25544 fqs=3832 
	(t=10500 jiffies g=33613 q=1693)
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 10497 Comm: syz.3.2358 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:172 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:227 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x70/0xe0 kernel/kcov.c:329
Code: 20 65 4c 8b 05 61 6e 89 7e 45 31 c9 eb 08 49 ff c1 4c 39 c8 74 77 4e 8b 54 ce 10 65 44 8b 1d 4f 6e 89 7e 41 81 e3 00 01 ff 00 <74> 13 41 81 fb 00 01 00 00 75 d9 41 83 b8 34 16 00 00 00 74 cf 45
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000072b8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffffc90000007420 RCX: 0000000000000005
RDX: ffffffff88a022b1 RSI: ffffffff8d544520 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff888076ac9dc0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffffc900000073e8
R13: ffff8880796fb500 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 ipv6_get_saddr_eval+0xc1/0xf40 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1548
 __ipv6_dev_get_saddr+0x19d/0x430 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1714
 ipv6_dev_get_saddr+0x297/0xb90 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1851
 ip6_route_get_saddr include/net/ip6_route.h:145 [inline]
 ip6_dst_lookup_tail+0xe03/0x1340 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1106
 icmpv6_route_lookup+0xfe/0x5a0 net/ipv6/icmp.c:366
 icmp6_send+0xff0/0x19a0 net/ipv6/icmp.c:601
 __icmpv6_send include/linux/icmpv6.h:28 [inline]
 icmpv6_send include/linux/icmpv6.h:49 [inline]
 ip6_link_failure+0x35/0x490 net/ipv6/route.c:2789
 dst_link_failure include/net/dst.h:422 [inline]
 ndisc_error_report+0x10e/0x150 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:717
 neigh_invalidate+0x23b/0x460 net/core/neighbour.c:1001
 neigh_timer_handler+0x90d/0xff0 net/core/neighbour.c:1088
 call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1648
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1699 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x56c/0x810 kernel/time/timer.c:1970
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1983
 handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 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:finish_lock_switch+0x12f/0x290 kernel/sched/core.c:4804
Code: 83 c7 18 be ff ff ff ff e8 6e cb 6b 08 85 c0 74 46 4d 85 ff 75 62 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 df e8 98 3a 75 08 e8 43 d7 2a 00 fb 5b <41> 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 89 df e8 2f 0e fe ff 43 80 3c 2c
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000326f7b8 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: ccf79a80dcd93d00 RBX: ffff88807a241dc0 RCX: ccf79a80dcd93d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: ffffffff8a7a4200
RBP: 1ffff11017207613 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: 1ffff110172075c1
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b903ae08 R15: 0000000000000000
 finish_task_switch+0x12f/0x650 kernel/sched/core.c:4921
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5052 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11cb/0x4350 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 freezable_schedule include/linux/freezer.h:172 [inline]
 futex_wait_queue_me+0x22b/0x440 kernel/futex/core.c:2863
 futex_wait+0x256/0x680 kernel/futex/core.c:2964
 do_futex+0xdc2/0x12b0 kernel/futex/core.c:3983
 __do_sys_futex kernel/futex/core.c:4060 [inline]
 __se_sys_futex+0x389/0x420 kernel/futex/core.c:4041
 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: 0033:0x7fa0b929e0d9
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:00007fa0b74f60e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa0b9525fa8 RCX: 00007fa0b929e0d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007fa0b9525fa8
RBP: 00007fa0b9525fa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa0b9526038 R14: 00007ffd6c207ca0 R15: 00007ffd6c207d88
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/07 01:38 linux-5.15.y 9c7634c60784 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_timer_handler
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.