INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/22 04:15
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+8785aaf121cfb2141e0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 851d, last: 8d05h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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8f74a8d2 patching INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap (2) 2026/08/02 19:16 2026/08/02 20:55 2026/08/02 22:41 e611ffe1
ed620b84 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap (2) 2026/05/23 06:07 2026/05/23 06:07 2026/05/23 06:41 c69befb3
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[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap (2) 7 (11) 2025/12/19 19:37
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap 1 7 218d 389d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/09 22:56
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap mm kasan 1 1 1063d 1063d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/06 05:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap 1 1 385d 385d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/24 12:55
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap (2) origin:upstream 1 syz, C error 26 45d 490d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/02 07:15
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap 1 1 744d 744d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/31 01:03
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap (2) 1 3 39d 86d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/05/11 10:40
Last patch testing requests (11)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/06/20 09:11 36m retest repro upstream log
2026/06/20 09:07 26m retest repro upstream log
2026/06/20 06:13 1h15m retest repro upstream log
2026/04/07 14:38 22m retest repro upstream report log
2026/04/07 14:38 50m retest repro upstream report log
2026/04/07 14:12 1h05m retest repro upstream report log
2026/01/27 14:02 23m retest repro upstream report log
2026/01/27 13:16 20m retest repro upstream report log
2025/11/24 17:50 31m retest repro upstream OK log
2025/09/02 20:24 22m retest repro upstream report log
2025/08/28 02:20 46m liam.howlett@oracle.com git://git.infradead.org/users/jedix/linux-maple.git no_validate report log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=b1ec/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=17000/17047 fqs=2
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=14373, q=522 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5845 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
RIP: 0010:advance_sched+0x455/0xd20 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:967
Code: 00 00 48 8b 44 24 18 49 8b 1e 80 38 00 0f 85 20 07 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 48 89 df 48 8b a8 30 01 00 00 48 89 ee e8 2b 03 42 f8 <48> 39 eb 0f 85 30 ff ff ff e8 3d 09 42 f8 49 83 fd 10 0f 83 5d 07
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007de8 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000010001 RBX: 00000000000003e8 RCX: ffffffff89c856f5
RDX: 00000000000003e8 RSI: 00000000000003e8 RDI: ffff888036dd2540
RBP: 00000000000003e8 R08: 0000000000000006 R09: 00000000000003e8
R10: 00000000000003e8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888079c17400 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007fdc6aa6a780(0000) GS:ffff888123ddc000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fdc6abf6fb3 CR3: 000000007550d000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2032 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x462/0x9c0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2096
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3e5/0x940 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2215
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1051 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x109/0x470 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1068
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9e/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x5e/0x370 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 05 fb 4d 7e 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 da 00 00 00 48 0f a3 05 86 81 3c 0f 0f 82 ac 02 00 00 8b 35 4e b5 3c 0f 85 f6 0f 85 c7 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 9d 4d 7e 12 0f 85 ec 02 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002e2f7c0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 943904b7742d9bd4
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e17fc5f RDI: ffffffff8c401580
RBP: ffff88807e28f1c8 R08: 000000000b2d5154 R09: 00000000000005c2
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 __vma_start_exclude_readers+0x2b4/0x810 mm/mmap_lock.c:125
 __vma_start_write+0x11c/0x280 mm/mmap_lock.c:148
 vma_start_write include/linux/mmap_lock.h:303 [inline]
 vma_start_write include/linux/mmap_lock.h:298 [inline]
 vms_gather_munmap_vmas+0x490/0x1720 mm/vma.c:1452
 do_vmi_align_munmap+0x287/0x5f0 mm/vma.c:1595
 do_vmi_munmap+0x1f8/0x3e0 mm/vma.c:1652
 __vm_munmap+0x196/0x390 mm/vma.c:3288
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:1079 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:1076 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x59/0x80 mm/mmap.c:1076
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdc6ac792e7
Code: 00 00 00 b8 0a 00 00 00 0f 05 48 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8d 0d c9 3f 01 00 f7 d8 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 b8 0b 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8d 0d a9 3f 01 00 f7 d8 89 01 48 83
RSP: 002b:00007fff01c13008 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000000b
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000555756208e50 RCX: 00007fdc6ac792e7
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000002f6d0 RDI: 00007fdc6aa0b000
RBP: 00007fff01c13110 R08: 00000000000004f0 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 00007fff01c12f40 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fff01c13050
R13: 00007fdc6ac8c000 R14: 0000555756208e50 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10495 jiffies! g14373 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=3031
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10496 jiffies! g14373 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:27592 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5510 [inline]
 __schedule+0x125c/0x6730 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7311 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x2c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7326
 schedule_timeout+0x127/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1a9/0x900 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2123
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x179/0x230 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2325
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (47):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/28 02:22 upstream f5098b6bae76 4cb2b096 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/19 19:37 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2026/01/04 12:37 upstream aacb0a6d604a d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2026/07/28 21:57 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 19622d9d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2026/04/27 08:17 upstream 20b64cf8705a 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2026/04/20 22:54 upstream c1f49dea2b8f e65da4ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2026/01/13 13:08 upstream b71e635feefc d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/21 05:55 upstream d8ba32c5a460 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/18 03:50 upstream ea1013c15392 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/14 02:10 upstream 9d9c1cfec01c d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/11/24 19:47 upstream ac3fd01e4c1e bf6fe8fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/11/10 10:59 upstream e9a6fb0bcdd7 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/09/11 03:28 upstream 7aac71907bde fdeaa69b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/08/19 13:05 upstream be48bcf004f9 523f460e .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/08/04 01:14 upstream 352af6a011d5 7368264b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/07/25 04:36 upstream 25fae0b93d1d fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/06/07 19:59 upstream 7a912d04415b 4826c28e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/05/13 11:45 upstream e9565e23cd89 f6671af7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/04/20 21:29 upstream ac71fabf1567 2a20f901 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/03/02 01:12 upstream 03d38806a902 c3901742 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/02/05 09:09 upstream 5c8c229261f1 5896748e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/01/21 02:22 upstream ffd294d346d1 6e87cfa2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/01/12 23:44 upstream be548645527a 6dbc6a9b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/08/14 07:06 upstream 6b0f8db921ab bde81f6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/07/14 17:55 upstream 4d145e3f830b eaeb5c15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/07/12 21:13 upstream 43db1e03c086 eaeb5c15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/06/24 00:06 upstream 7c16f0a4ed1c edc5149a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/06/13 23:57 upstream 2ccbdf43d5e7 a9616ff5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/06/12 01:13 upstream 2ef5971ff345 c7d7d815 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/06/09 09:40 upstream 061d1af7b030 82c05ab8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2026/07/08 04:55 net 60444706aa17 88a4b44c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2026/06/06 04:39 net c93952cc0034 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/07/23 14:49 net cc73bbab4b1f 708c10c4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/27 13:29 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/25 20:21 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/23 21:47 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/15 02:37 linux-next d9771d0dbe18 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/13 14:15 linux-next d9771d0dbe18 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/12/02 00:28 linux-next 7d31f578f323 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/11/29 03:36 linux-next 7d31f578f323 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/09/05 01:30 linux-next 4ac65880ebca d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/08/19 01:12 linux-next 3ac864c2d9bb 523f460e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/10/16 00:05 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 64f3b5a6bc49 bde2d81c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/07/14 12:36 linux-next 3fe121b62282 eaeb5c15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/05/28 15:08 linux-next 6dc544b66971 34889ee3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2024/04/06 03:11 linux-next 8568bb2ccc27 18ea8213 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
2025/07/26 13:54 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 82af5ea7c611 fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_munmap
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.