INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/08/12 12:28
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+894cac40ce97c83618bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 813d, last: 13h13m
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473ebbe0 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 2026/05/22 01:12 2026/05/22 01:12 2026/05/22 02:01 d5742584
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Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close (2) 1 2 78d 81d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/05/21 10:08
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 1 6 756d 806d 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 232d 232d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/31 08:37
linux-5.15 BUG: soft lockup in kcov_close 1 1 806d 806d 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 639d 705d 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): P12633/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=125921, q=3180 ncpus=1)
task:syz.0.1555      state:R  running task     stack:26256 pid:12633 tgid:12624 ppid:5614   task_flags:0x40054c flags:0x00080001
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5510 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d9/0x56c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7556
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x8f0 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x8e/0x3e0 mm/memcontrol.c:983
Code: 29 70 ff 48 8d 1d 00 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 60 9c b5 8e 31 f6 31 d2 b9 02 00 00 00 45 31 c0 45 31 c9 53 e8 76 4a 66 ff 48 83 c4 08 <e8> 2d 4f 94 09 85 c0 74 3a e8 b4 74 6f ff 84 c0 75 31 e8 1b 4f 94
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003977938 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: c721c89cb7260300 RBX: ffffffff823c6b9e RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 000000005a44979c RSI: ffffffff8e4adb51 RDI: ffffffff8c4bbe80
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff823c6b9e R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8eb59c60 R12: ffffea000187ea80
R13: ffffea000187ea80 R14: ffff88801fb2b620 R15: ffff88813fffb140
 mod_lruvec_page_state include/linux/vmstat.h:528 [inline]
 vm_area_free_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3459 [inline]
 vfree+0x197/0x4a0 mm/vmalloc.c:3510
 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:449 [inline]
 kcov_close+0x28/0x50 kernel/kcov.c:554
 __fput+0x418/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x73a/0x2360 kernel/exit.c:1009
 do_group_exit+0x22d/0x2f0 kernel/exit.c:1152
 get_signal+0x121b/0x12c0 kernel/signal.c:3046
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbb/0x860 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:66 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x104/0x730 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x353/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ffa4f99e0d9
RSP: 002b:00007ffa4dbf6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: fffffffffffffffc RBX: 00007ffa4fc26090 RCX: 00007ffa4f99e0d9
RDX: 000000000000001c RSI: 00002000000001c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007ffa4fa35024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffa4fc26128 R14: 00007ffa4fc26090 R15: 00007fff970a60a8
 </TASK>

Crashes (235):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/10 04:18 upstream b643e495ae92 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/06 17:37 upstream 0d8395707651 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/05 11:31 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/01 20:08 upstream 0131b508c0e2 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/29 07:14 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 19622d9d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/27 10:29 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/09 10:44 upstream 0e35b9b6ec0f b9f1ceaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/24 09:01 upstream f31c00c377cc 042555ff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/23 04:34 upstream ef0c9f75a195 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/13 05:38 upstream 1dadb7e7eb5a 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/07 00:03 upstream 8e65320d91cd cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/06 13:07 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/06 06:50 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/01 11:16 upstream e43ffb69e043 8d8eeb3a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/29 22:53 upstream 9215e74f228f 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/22 02:21 upstream 6779b50faa56 e195359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/20 22:24 upstream df685633c3db 62fb93a2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/19 06:41 upstream 4d3a2a466b8d 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/19 03:17 upstream 4d3a2a466b8d 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/17 01:20 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/15 02:06 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/14 22:29 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/14 11:55 upstream e1914add2799 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/13 16:17 upstream 1d5dcaa3bd65 fec2a7ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/12 23:08 upstream c21b90f77687 a0949470 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/08 11:55 upstream 917719c412c4 5633175a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/07 20:28 upstream 19cbc75c56c0 e358bca5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/05 02:53 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/23 06:22 upstream 2a4c0c11c019 b10da5ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/20 19:54 upstream c1f49dea2b8f e65da4ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/18 14:35 upstream 8541d8f725c6 303e2802 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/11 09:59 upstream 7c6c4ed80b87 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/06 04:05 upstream 1791c390149f 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/30 16:03 upstream 7aaa8047eafd 458630d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/21 05:54 upstream c612261bedd6 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/18 09:00 upstream f0caa1d49cc0 c8810548 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/13 23:17 upstream b36eb6e3f5d8 351cb5cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/24 16:44 upstream 7dff99b35460 96b1aa46 .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
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
2026/07/28 00:34 upstream f5098b6bae76 4cb2b096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/02 09:29 net af39eb111ce6 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/09 23:26 net f5089008f90c 4167ee25 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/21 04:04 net 96e7f9122aae 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/18 09:49 net b85966adbf5d b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/13 18:31 net 05f5368cf3e9 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/12 09:18 net 9bf10032894f e93da63e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/12 03:25 net 9bf10032894f e93da63e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/12 00:08 net 7360b9609980 d93a6ab6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/05 14:30 net 4aacf509e537 48b6c3fa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/27 08:37 net c66d7c3c1f17 2b01f00e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/21 03:53 net 9a8e01c50093 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/26 12:27 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/05 02:14 net-next b73bc9ca3686 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/30 10:52 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 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.