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INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/14 22:22
Subsystems: mm block
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Reported-by: syzbot+8b65a69dedebce19fd11@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 260d, last: 6d04h
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[syzbot] [mm?] [block?] INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 0 (1) 2026/02/14 22:22
Similar bugs (15)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 1 1 2503d 2503d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/08 13:45
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 1 1 101d 101d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/15 23:07
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 (2) 1 3 2021d 2175d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/12/03 20:18
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (3) mm 1 2 1392d 1393d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/25 08:10
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (4) net 1 1 1133d 1133d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/18 07:19
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (6) fs mm 1 6 479d 640d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/24 02:27
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 1 454d 454d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/27 23:01
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 lsm 1 C 4 2617d 2616d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/12/19 10:12
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 C done error 100 1502d 2585d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:47
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 3 2161d 2213d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/07/16 06:45
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (7) mm 1 1 375d 375d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/07 22:38
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 1007d 1007d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/24 12:36
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (5) fs 1 1 824d 824d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/14 10:13
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 2495d 2495d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/16 04:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 571d 571d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/03 00:47

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6857/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=14329, q=377 ncpus=2)
task:syz.2.237       state:R  running task     stack:26360 pid:6857  tgid:6845  ppid:5832   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5260 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1522/0x51d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6867
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7194
 irqentry_exit+0x597/0x620 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_is_held_type+0x106/0x150 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5945
Code: 18 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff 65 0f c1 05 74 f3 5b 07 83 f8 01 75 25 9c 58 a9 00 02 00 00 75 39 41 f7 c4 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 89 d8 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 a6 1e 79 f5 cc 90 0f 0b 90 48 c7
RSP: 0018:ffffc900037df408 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: ffff88802afdbd00 RSI: ffffffff8df35112 RDI: ffffffff8c073b00
RBP: 00000000ffffffff R08: ffffea0001dfa1c7 R09: 1ffffd40003bf438
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff940003bf439 R12: 0000000000000246
R13: ffff88802afdbd00 R14: ffffffff8e55a360 R15: 0000000000000000
 xa_entry include/linux/xarray.h:1226 [inline]
 xas_next include/linux/xarray.h:1912 [inline]
 filemap_get_read_batch+0x642/0x970 mm/filemap.c:2457
 filemap_get_pages+0x351/0x1ec0 mm/filemap.c:2680
 filemap_splice_read+0x5cd/0xd10 mm/filemap.c:3079
 do_splice_read fs/splice.c:982 [inline]
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x478/0xc70 fs/splice.c:1086
 do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1204 [inline]
 do_splice_direct+0x195/0x290 fs/splice.c:1230
 do_sendfile+0x535/0x7d0 fs/read_write.c:1370
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1425 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64+0xdf/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:1417
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fd7a899aeb9
RSP: 002b:00007fd7a9835028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000028
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd7a8c16180 RCX: 00007fd7a899aeb9
RDX: 0000200000000080 RSI: 0000000000000007 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007fd7a8a08c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000004d9b6eaf R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fd7a8c16218 R14: 00007fd7a8c16180 R15: 00007ffc22589c58
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10431 jiffies! g14329 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:28000 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5260 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1522/0x51d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6867
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6949 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6964
 schedule_timeout+0x158/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x312/0x1560 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x726/0x8b0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x51b/0xa40 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:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6846 Comm: syz.0.238 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:342 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xcea/0x1270 kernel/smp.c:877
Code: 89 ee 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 c4 db 0b 00 41 83 e5 01 49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 07 e8 6f d7 0b 00 eb 38 f3 90 42 0f b6 04 2b <84> c0 75 11 41 f7 04 24 01 00 00 00 74 1e e8 53 d7 0b 00 eb e4 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc900038cf4a0 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff110170e8129 RCX: ffff88801aba3d00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900038cf5c8 R08: ffff8880249a3047 R09: 1ffff11004934608
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff81778480 R12: ffff8880b8740948
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b863bb00 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881256f3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b30b06ff8 CR3: 0000000075c65000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3f/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1043
 __flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:91 [inline]
 flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1382 [inline]
 flush_tlb_mm_range+0x5c3/0x10c0 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1472
 tlb_flush arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h:23 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly include/asm-generic/tlb.h:506 [inline]
 zap_pte_range mm/memory.c:1885 [inline]
 zap_pmd_range mm/memory.c:1950 [inline]
 zap_pud_range mm/memory.c:1978 [inline]
 zap_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1999 [inline]
 unmap_page_range+0x3780/0x4030 mm/memory.c:2020
 unmap_single_vma mm/memory.c:2062 [inline]
 unmap_vmas+0x3c0/0x5c0 mm/memory.c:2104
 exit_mmap+0x251/0xb30 mm/mmap.c:1277
 __mmput+0x118/0x430 kernel/fork.c:1173
 exit_mm+0x168/0x220 kernel/exit.c:581
 do_exit+0x62e/0x2310 kernel/exit.c:959
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1112
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1123 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1121 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1121
 x64_sys_call+0x2210/0x2210 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f986059aeb9
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f986059ae8f.
RSP: 002b:00007ffd0f27cf08 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f986059aeb9
RDX: 0000000000000064 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007ffd0f27cf6c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000000927c0
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000023
R13: 00000000000927c0 R14: 000000000003162f R15: 00007ffd0f27cfc0
 </TASK>

Crashes (30):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/08 20:44 upstream e98f34af6116 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/12/29 02:06 upstream c875a6c32467 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/11/02 12:21 upstream 691d401c7e0e 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/06/01 18:56 upstream 7d4e49a77d99 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/12/10 20:04 linux-next 008d3547aae5 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/10/17 10:18 linux-next 2433b8476165 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/10/03 18:17 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 sendfile64
2025/09/02 09:39 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/09/02 04:33 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/31 00:34 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/30 16:01 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/29 13:44 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 3e1beec6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/24 03:52 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/22 20:15 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/17 19:28 linux-next 931e46dcbc7e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/17 06:04 linux-next 931e46dcbc7e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/16 07:57 linux-next 931e46dcbc7e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/16 01:38 linux-next 931e46dcbc7e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/13 23:03 linux-next 2674d1eadaa2 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/07/31 23:38 linux-next 84b92a499e7e 0c075d67 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2026/02/10 22:07 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/02/10 08:14 upstream 8a5203c630c6 4ab09a02 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/01/07 02:48 upstream f0b9d8eb98df d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/21 17:55 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/19 22:15 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/18 08:59 upstream ea1013c15392 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/15 22:58 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/14 00:46 upstream 9d9c1cfec01c d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/11/11 20:10 upstream 4427259cc7f7 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/07/29 07:33 upstream ced1b9e0392d c4a95487 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.