INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (5)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/31 13:05
Reported-by: syzbot+7c8ae9bdfa75efc44756@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 14h40m, last: 14h40m
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (4) origin:lts-only 1 syz, C error 13 39d 138d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/04/15 21:01
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon kernel 1 syz, C error inconclusive 1904 1588d 2168d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/10/12 18:37
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (3) 1 1 376d 376d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/28 14:14
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon 1 1 1046d 1046d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/28 07:17
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (3) 1 3 700d 707d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/08 17:17
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) 1 1 585d 585d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/03 16:43
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (4) 1 8 117d 356d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/14 16:41
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon 1 3 700d 725d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/08 20:04
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon origin:lts-only 1 syz, C 2 9d15h 82d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/10 10:49
upstream BUG: soft lockup in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) wireless prio:high 1 syz, C error inconclusive 171 142d 903d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/21 00:56
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) 1 1 923d 923d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/30 17:39
upstream BUG: soft lockup in mac80211_hwsim_beacon wireless 1 syz error unreliable 180 1588d 2161d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/21 14:41
upstream BUG: soft lockup in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (3) prio:normal virt 1 2 35d 32d 0/29 moderation: reported on 2026/07/30 07:17

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-....: (10500 ticks this GP) idle=dff/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=20312/20312 fqs=4987 
	(t=10502 jiffies g=26425 q=3343)
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 8806 Comm: syz.0.926 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+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:seqcount_lockdep_reader_access+0x196/0x1d0 include/linux/seqlock.h:106
Code: 00 4d 85 e4 75 16 e8 b9 07 10 00 eb 15 e8 b2 07 10 00 e8 3d 4c 57 08 4d 85 e4 74 ea e8 a3 07 10 00 fb 48 c7 04 24 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3e 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3e 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000397faa0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff816907fd RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88807be05940
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000397fb58 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: 0000000000000200
R13: 000000c53a81d81b R14: 1ffff9200072ff54 R15: dffffc0000000000
 timekeeping_get_delta kernel/time/timekeeping.c:254 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:388 [inline]
 ktime_get+0x7b/0x270 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:831
 hrtimer_forward_now include/linux/hrtimer.h:508 [inline]
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0x13b/0x180 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1874
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4ea/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x176/0x240 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1766
 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+0x52/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0033:0x7f01421ad589
Code: c7 44 24 0c 30 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 18 e8 2f a2 0f 00 48 8b 3d b0 07 3a 00 e8 63 02 10 00 44 89 65 00 48 81 c4 d0 00 00 00 5b <5d> 41 5c c3 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 fe 31 c0 53 48 89 fb 48 8d 3d b7 2e
RSP: 002b:00007f01404ee038 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007f0142391c7f
RDX: 00000000000326cf RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: 00007f01423909ed
RBP: 00007f0142390024 R08: 0000000000000113 R09: 000810253905aff0
R10: 00000091ac43199e R11: 000000000000cff4 R12: 00007f01423909ed
R13: 00007f0142581308 R14: 00007f0142581270 R15: 00007ffdafe15878
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/31 13:04 linux-5.15.y 28c35638ec51 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.