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INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/02 11:58
Reported-by: syzbot+8b4ff2a7f5a77cb64934@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 8d18h
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl mm 1 4 545d 620d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/18 05:25
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 1 498d 498d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/14 12:09
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 3 213d 237d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/26 13:49
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 1 116d 116d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/01 00:03
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2) 1 5 26d 111d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/03/28 18:58
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2) 1 13 2d18h 236d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/11/23 13:35

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:fa:aa:37:9b:9e:3f, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P26685/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=154557, q=1233 ncpus=2)
task:syz.2.7399      state:R  running task     stack:25832 pid:26685 ppid:26226  flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6867
 preempt_schedule+0xc0/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6891
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:45
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x14b/0x1c0 kernel/softirq.c:413
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 xdp_test_run_batch net/bpf/test_run.c:361 [inline]
 bpf_test_run_xdp_live+0x18ce/0x1b30 net/bpf/test_run.c:383
 bpf_prog_test_run_xdp+0x7d8/0x1140 net/bpf/test_run.c:1326
 bpf_prog_test_run+0x31f/0x390 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4132
 __sys_bpf+0x49d/0x890 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5495
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5581 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5579 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bpf+0x7c/0x90 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5579
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7ff414b9de59
RSP: 002b:00007ff415a95028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff414e26180 RCX: 00007ff414b9de59
RDX: 0000000000000048 RSI: 0000200000000600 RDI: 000000000000000a
RBP: 00007ff414c33e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff414e26218 R14: 00007ff414e26180 R15: 00007ffd1da2a468
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 215 jiffies! g154557 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->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:R  running task     stack:26824 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6774
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x30d/0x1590 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 0 PID: 26689 Comm: syz.3.7401 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:preempt_count arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:27 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:182 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:245 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_switch+0x65/0xe0 kernel/kcov.c:350
Code: 57 41 56 41 54 53 48 8d 4c 09 01 48 8b 54 24 20 65 4c 8b 05 bd cd 7c 7e 45 31 c9 eb 08 49 ff c1 4c 39 c8 74 77 4e 8b 54 ce 10 <65> 44 8b 1d ab cd 7c 7e 41 81 e3 00 01 ff 00 74 13 41 81 fb 00 01
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006950 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: ffffffff813b2b18 RSI: ffffffff8cfa05c0 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: ffffc90000006a98 R08: ffff88805025bc00 R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffffffff8f90b136
R13: ffffc90000006a48 R14: 0000000000000005 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f22d09bd6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b33315ff8 CR3: 000000004e896000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 unwind_next_frame+0x748/0x2990 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:515
 arch_stack_walk+0x144/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xaa/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x28/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0xf8/0x290 mm/slub.c:3852
 kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1264 [inline]
 ip6_mc_input+0xa17/0xc10 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:589
 ip_sabotage_in+0x1e2/0x270 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:1001
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:144 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xbd/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:626
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:259 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x21d/0x3b0 include/linux/netfilter.h:302
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5646 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0x290 net/core/dev.c:5760
 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:5846 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb+0x1bc/0x720 net/core/dev.c:5905
 NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:304
 br_handle_frame_finish+0xf51/0x15c0 net/bridge/br_input.c:221
 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x3cd/0x4a0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:1184
 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x9e5/0xd20 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:-1
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:304 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x34d/0x6a0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:184
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:144 [inline]
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:277 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x1240/0x14d0 net/bridge/br_input.c:424
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xf94/0x3ab0 net/core/dev.c:5540
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5644 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0x74/0x290 net/core/dev.c:5760
 process_backlog+0x380/0x710 net/core/dev.c:6088
 __napi_poll+0xbb/0x460 net/core/dev.c:6650
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6717 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x65f/0xcc0 net/core/dev.c:6853
 handle_softirqs+0x27d/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:612 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:452 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xd3/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:661
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:673
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x45/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:221
Code: ff 00 74 11 81 fa 00 01 00 00 75 35 83 b9 1c 16 00 00 00 74 2c 8b 91 f8 15 00 00 83 fa 02 75 21 48 8b 91 00 16 00 00 48 8b 32 <48> 8d 7e 01 8b 89 fc 15 00 00 48 39 cf 73 08 48 89 3a 48 89 44 f2
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000450f370 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff813b3eb0 RBX: ffffffff8f1b573e RCX: ffff88805025bc00
RDX: ffffc90013774000 RSI: 000000000000f4cf RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000450f498 R08: ffff88805025bc00 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffffc9000450f858
R13: ffffc9000450f448 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
 get_reg arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:452 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0x1ae0/0x2990 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:643
 arch_stack_walk+0x144/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xaa/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x28/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
 memcg_free_slab_cgroups mm/slab.h:463 [inline]
 unaccount_slab mm/slab.h:651 [inline]
 __free_slab+0xbe/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:2097
 __slab_free+0x35a/0x400 mm/slub.c:3736
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6a/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x194/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 kset_create lib/kobject.c:965 [inline]
 kset_create_and_add+0x5a/0x160 lib/kobject.c:1008
 register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:1793 [inline]
 netdev_register_kobject+0x1b2/0x320 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2046
 register_netdevice+0x12aa/0x1ba0 net/core/dev.c:10318
 tun_set_iff+0x82b/0xea0 drivers/net/tun.c:2865
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x7e0/0x2070 drivers/net/tun.c:3134
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f22cfb9de59
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:00007f22d09bd028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f22cfe26090 RCX: 00007f22cfb9de59
RDX: 00002000000000c0 RSI: 00000000400454ca RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 00007f22cfc33e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f22cfe26128 R14: 00007f22cfe26090 R15: 00007fff3b68fb58
 </TASK>
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:fa:aa:37:9b:9e:3f, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:fa:aa:37:9b:9e:3f, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/09 04:20 linux-6.6.y da47cbc25466 b9f1ceaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/07/02 11:57 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 27192279 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.