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INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/08/28 08:46
Reported-by: syzbot+8b9640939d074b93a16b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 102d, last: 7d16h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames (3) origin:lts-only 1 C inconclusive 6 5d08h 34d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/04 22:16
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames wireless 1 C error 670 13h38m 541d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/06/15 21:07
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames 1 1 298d 298d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/24 12:07
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames (2) 1 1 319d 319d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/04 02:50
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames 1 1 142d 142d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/27 16:58
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames 1 4 449d 469d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/24 22:17

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=03d/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=35853/35854 fqs=4775 
	(t=10500 jiffies g=51785 q=1388)
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 15036 Comm: syz.4.2642 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x397/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x22f/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:349
 print_cpu_stall+0x31d/0x5f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:633
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:727 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x6d8/0x1110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4fe/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:queue_work_on+0x183/0x1d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1564
Code: 4d 85 e4 75 16 e8 9d c3 2a 00 eb 15 e8 96 c3 2a 00 e8 61 65 5c 08 4d 85 e4 74 ea e8 87 c3 2a 00 fb 48 c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 <48> b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 49 c7 44 05 00 00 00 00 00 66 41 c7
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000074c0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff814d0889 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88801de10000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900000075a0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff7c3a
R10: fffffbfff1ff7c3a R11: 1ffffffff1ff7c39 R12: 0000000000000200
R13: 1ffff92000000e9c R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888075b85701
 __ieee80211_queue_skb_to_iface net/mac80211/rx.c:222 [inline]
 ieee80211_queue_skb_to_iface net/mac80211/rx.c:232 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_h_mgmt+0x406/0x5b0 net/mac80211/rx.c:3795
 ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x6727/0x8470 net/mac80211/rx.c:3959
 ieee80211_invoke_rx_handlers net/mac80211/rx.c:3989 [inline]
 ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x1d8e/0x5250 net/mac80211/rx.c:4703
 __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet net/mac80211/rx.c:4863 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_list+0x1ba1/0x2680 net/mac80211/rx.c:4986
 ieee80211_rx_napi+0x15d/0x360 net/mac80211/rx.c:5009
 ieee80211_rx include/net/mac80211.h:4573 [inline]
 ieee80211_handle_queued_frames+0x105/0x1b0 net/mac80211/main.c:237
 tasklet_action_common+0x298/0x400 kernel/softirq.c:806
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:generic_exec_single+0x360/0x450 kernel/smp.c:532
Code: df eb 27 e8 92 55 0b 00 0f 0b e9 ce fd ff ff e8 86 55 0b 00 e8 51 f7 3c 08 48 85 db 0f 84 5c ff ff ff e8 73 55 0b 00 fb 31 c0 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4b c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc900030efa60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000200 RCX: ffff88801de10000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900030efb30 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff7c3a
R10: fffffbfff1ff7c3a R11: 1ffffffff1ff7c39 R12: ffffc900030efb88
R13: 1ffff9200061df50 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
 smp_call_function_single+0x1e2/0x490 kernel/smp.c:755
 task_function_call kernel/events/core.c:120 [inline]
 perf_install_in_context+0x59a/0x8f0 kernel/events/core.c:3016
 __do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:12793 [inline]
 __se_sys_perf_event_open+0x1283/0x1b80 kernel/events/core.c:12387
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fe14c258749
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fe14a47d038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe14c4af180 RCX: 00007fe14c258749
RDX: ffffffffffffffff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00002000000003c0
RBP: 00007fe14c2dcf91 R08: 000000000000000b R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe14c4af218 R14: 00007fe14c4af180 R15: 00007ffd5a76eb38
 </TASK>

Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/01 11:08 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/11/29 00:57 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/11/21 18:09 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 280ea308 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/11/15 00:07 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 f7988ea4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/10/11 17:33 linux-5.15.y 29e53a5b1c4f ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/10/05 20:40 linux-5.15.y 29e53a5b1c4f 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/09/13 21:40 linux-5.15.y 43bb85222e53 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/08/28 08:46 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.