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INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/08/12 12:28
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+894cac40ce97c83618bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 584d, last: 21h24m
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[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 0 (1) 2024/08/12 12:28
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 1 6 526d 576d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/23 16:14
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 1 1 2d19h 2d19h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/12/21 08:37
linux-5.15 BUG: soft lockup in kcov_close 1 1 576d 576d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/03 09:36
upstream INFO: task hung in release_tty (3) serial 1 3 410d 475d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/07 03:06

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P17201/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=103277, q=1679 ncpus=2)
task:syz.7.2302      state:R  running task     stack:24056 pid:17201 tgid:17198 ppid:15294  task_flags:0x40054c flags:0x00080003
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x149b/0x4fd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7190
 irqentry_exit+0x5d8/0x660 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:24 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x61/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5831
Code: 24 58 0f 1f 44 00 00 65 8b 05 1f 22 e2 10 83 f8 08 0f 83 84 01 00 00 89 c0 48 0f a3 05 48 34 e4 0d 73 0d e8 21 0e 09 00 84 c0 <0f> 84 cb 01 00 00 83 3d 62 64 e4 0d 00 0f 84 d4 00 00 00 48 8b b4
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000473f4b8 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000080000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8bc083c0 RDI: ffffffff8bc08380
RBP: ffffffff8173fd65 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff81acf3a0 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8df41aa0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x23d0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf5/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:165
 __reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:320
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc8/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 vfree+0x25a/0x400 mm/vmalloc.c:3466
 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:439 [inline]
 kcov_close+0x28/0x50 kernel/kcov.c:535
 __fput+0x44c/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:468
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x694/0x22f0 kernel/exit.c:971
 do_group_exit+0x21c/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1112
 get_signal+0x1285/0x1340 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x9a/0x7a0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:41 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x87/0x4e0 kernel/entry/common.c:75
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2b7/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f110f18f749
RSP: 002b:00007f110ff53038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffff95 RBX: 00007f110f3e6180 RCX: 00007f110f18f749
RDX: 00000000fffffdef RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f110f213f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f110f3e6218 R14: 00007f110f3e6180 R15: 00007ffce6b07f98
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10530 jiffies! g103277 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=1
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:R  running task     stack:27568 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x149b/0x4fd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6960
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: 3e b4 b6 f5 cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 73 c1 0e 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <e9> 13 b4 b6 f5 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197e20 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 0000000001ba0e27 RBX: ffffffff819713be RCX: 0000000080000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d791fea RDI: ffffffff8bc083e0
RBP: ffffc90000197f10 R08: ffff8880b87336db R09: 1ffff110170e66db
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170e66dc R12: ffffffff8f822270
R13: 1ffff1100385fb70 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125f1f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe5ba2f4b4c CR3: 000000008bb5c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x73/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1be/0x4d0 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x44/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 start_secondary+0x101/0x110 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x147
 </TASK>

Crashes (164):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/23 06:42 upstream b927546677c8 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/21 18:18 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/21 08:23 upstream 9094662f6707 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/17 13:23 upstream ea1013c15392 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/15 12:44 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/15 07:13 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/09 06:03 upstream a110f942672c d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/02 19:05 upstream 4a26e7032d7d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/28 06:51 upstream aa7243aaf194 e8331348 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/27 08:07 upstream 4941a17751c9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/25 02:46 upstream ac3fd01e4c1e 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/24 16:34 upstream ac3fd01e4c1e bf6fe8fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/01 06:23 upstream 58fdd8484c05 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/31 10:23 upstream d127176862a9 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/29 17:49 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/27 06:45 upstream dbfc6422a34d c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/23 19:12 upstream 43e9ad0c55a3 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/17 01:14 upstream 98ac9cc4b445 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/08 04:11 upstream 971199ad2a0f 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/04 15:41 upstream cbf33b8e0b36 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/03 08:13 upstream e406d57be7bd 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/02 18:57 upstream 7f7072574127 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/09/30 04:06 upstream 1896ce8eb6c6 86341da6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/09/28 02:41 upstream 51a24b7deaae 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/09/21 05:02 upstream 3b08f56fbbb9 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/09/03 06:34 upstream e6b9dce0aeeb 091ba174 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/09/02 13:17 upstream b320789d6883 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/08/27 22:21 upstream 39f90c196721 e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/08/20 19:47 upstream b19a97d57c15 bd178e57 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/08/20 14:36 upstream b19a97d57c15 bd178e57 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/08/06 20:37 upstream 479058002c32 4bd24a3e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/21 23:43 upstream 89be9a83ccf1 0b3788a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/20 08:48 upstream bf61759db409 7117feec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/17 08:56 upstream e2291551827f 44f8051e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/17 01:14 upstream 155a3c003e55 44f8051e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/15 09:37 upstream 155a3c003e55 03fcfc4b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/13 17:53 upstream 3f31a806a62e 3cda49cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/12 20:21 upstream 379f604cc3dc 3cda49cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/06/17 12:32 upstream 9afe652958c3 417d98fa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/06/01 16:25 upstream 7d4e49a77d99 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/05/24 18:39 upstream b1427432d3b6 ed351ea7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/05/11 16:11 upstream 3ce9925823c7 77908e5f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/05/05 23:32 upstream 92a09c47464d 6ca47dd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/08/08 12:18 upstream 6a0e38264012 de12cf65 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/07/23 15:26 upstream 66ebbdfdeb09 708c10c4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/23 22:16 upstream d13f3ac64efb 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/20 15:38 upstream 23cb64fb7625 280ea308 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/08/22 21:27 upstream a2e94e80790b bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/31 04:10 upstream e8d780dcd957 f8f2b4da .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/07/19 08:21 net 96e056ffba91 7117feec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/05/30 10:56 net 27eab4c64423 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/01/16 17:21 net-next 9eb8069d9940 968edaf4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/17 21:33 linux-next 12b95d29eb97 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/15 10:48 linux-next 13863a59e410 b6605ba8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/10/04 18:43 linux-next 47a8d4b89844 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/08/10 08:33 linux-next b1549501188c 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/10/10 23:19 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 4a9fe2a8ac53 8fbfc0c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/07/17 15:49 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci c912bf709078 03114f55 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/05/02 20:39 bpf-next f263336a41da b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce BUG: soft lockup in kcov_close
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.