INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/04/25 20:23
Reported-by: syzbot+7d56c691ce261944ee2a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 115d, last: 19d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy 1 5 22d 143d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/03/29 06:28
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in inet_frag_destroy (2) 1 1 519d 519d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/15 23:42
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in inet_frag_destroy 1 3 783d 791d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/25 04:36

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=14b/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=12853/12855 fqs=5159 
	(t=10501 jiffies g=15277 q=5313)
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 6209 Comm: syz.2.571 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: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+0x84/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
Code: 49 c1 e9 03 4b 8d 1c 21 49 89 df 4d 29 df 49 83 ff 10 7f 29 4d 85 ff 0f 84 38 01 00 00 4c 89 cb 48 f7 d3 4c 01 f3 41 80 3b 00 <0f> 85 86 01 00 00 49 ff c3 48 ff c3 75 ee e9 18 01 00 00 44 89 dd
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007a58 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff87e00801 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: ffffffff87e00839
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff88805f7d88e0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff88805f7d88e3 R09: 1ffff1100befb11c
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100befb11c R12: dffffc0000000001
R13: ffff88807c1698c0 R14: 1ffff1100befb11c R15: 0000000000000001
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
 atomic_sub_return include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:125 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0xe9/0x830 net/core/skbuff.c:665
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:742 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:756 [inline]
 kfree_skb_reason+0xaf/0x110 net/core/skbuff.c:776
 kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1118 [inline]
 inet_frag_rbtree_purge net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:280 [inline]
 inet_frag_destroy+0x13a/0x230 net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:300
 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:ffffc9000327f478 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: 602c83be04357300 RBX: ffff888079073b80 RCX: 602c83be04357300
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
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6571
 preempt_schedule+0xbc/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6596
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:34
 unwind_next_frame+0x1202/0x1cf0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:616
 arch_stack_walk+0x10c/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x92/0xc0 mm/kasan/common.c:467
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x15d/0x280 mm/slub.c:3238
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:728 [inline]
 __alloc_file+0x25/0x240 fs/file_table.c:132
 alloc_empty_file+0x90/0x180 fs/file_table.c:181
 alloc_file+0x5c/0x510 fs/file_table.c:223
 alloc_file_pseudo+0x180/0x200 fs/file_table.c:263
 sock_alloc_file+0xb3/0x240 net/socket.c:464
 __sys_socketpair+0x372/0x540 net/socket.c:1683
 __do_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1705 [inline]
 __se_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1702 [inline]
 __x64_sys_socketpair+0x97/0xb0 net/socket.c:1702
 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: 0033:0x7fb26c6b8019
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:00007fb26a8ef028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000035
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb26c940090 RCX: 00007fb26c6b8019
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 00007fb26c74f00c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000200000000240 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb26c940128 R14: 00007fb26c940090 R15: 00007ffc4c5f6038
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/31 04:23 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
2026/04/25 20:22 linux-5.15.y b9d57c40a767 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.