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INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/12/19 01:50
Reported-by: syzbot+8fe6306e202244fa432b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 454d, last: 26d
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter (3) mm 1 1 2296d 2296d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter (2) exfat 1 2 2511d 2550d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/25 09:01
upstream BUG: soft lockup in generic_file_write_iter (2) mm 1 8 982d 970d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/18 13:34
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter (2) 1 37 36d 739d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/03/08 18:29
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter 1 1 925d 925d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/13 17:16
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter (4) cgroups 1 1 2229d 2225d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/05/09 11:43
upstream BUG: soft lockup in generic_file_write_iter net fs mm 1 2 1167d 1202d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/05 19:12
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter mm 1 58 2574d 2716d 0/29 closed as dup on 2018/10/27 15:28
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter (5) fs 1 2 2063d 2070d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/10/22 01:02
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter (7) block 1 1 248d 248d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/11 00:51
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter (6) mm cgroups 1 2 1548d 1605d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 09:50
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter 1 18 583d 695d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/12 08:46
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in generic_file_write_iter 1 1 675d 675d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/10 08:10

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P7833/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=34849, q=70 ncpus=2)
task:syz.2.735       state:R  running task     stack:26480 pid:7833  ppid:4268   flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6874
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:439
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:get_current arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:15 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x4/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:215
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 90 53 48 89 fb e8 17 00 00 00 48 8b 3d 40 5a 9d 0c 48 89 de 5b e9 47 22 50 00 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 48 8b 04 24 <65> 48 8b 0d 14 fa 7f 7e 65 8b 15 15 fa 7f 7e 81 e2 00 01 ff 00 74
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000458f718 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: ffffffff8a19fcb8 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000007
RDX: ffffffff8a19fca3 RSI: ffffffff8e08ab70 RDI: ffff888079d7221c
RBP: ffffc9000458f830 R08: ffff88802c22d940 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888079d7221c R14: ffffffffffffff00 R15: 0000000000000002
 mas_state_walk lib/maple_tree.c:3903 [inline]
 mt_find+0x238/0x830 lib/maple_tree.c:6539
 find_vma+0x12c/0x1b0 mm/mmap.c:1898
 lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x71/0x2f0 mm/memory.c:5385
 do_user_addr_fault+0x2db/0xb10 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1310
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1429 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x60/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1482
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0010:fault_in_readable+0x13e/0x1f0 mm/gup.c:1915
Code: d8 60 c4 ff 4d 89 f4 49 81 cc ff 0f 00 00 4d 89 f7 49 01 dc 49 81 e4 00 f0 ff ff 4d 39 e6 77 44 e8 b7 60 c4 ff 4d 39 e7 74 47 <41> 8a 07 88 44 24 07 49 81 c7 00 10 00 00 4d 39 e7 74 07 e8 9a 60
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000458fab0 EFLAGS: 00050287
RAX: ffffffff81be1469 RBX: 0000000000001000 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000c761000 RSI: 000000000007358e RDI: 000000000007358f
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff88802c22d940 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000200000260000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000020000025eff7 R15: 000020000025f000
 fault_in_iov_iter_readable+0xbb/0x2e0 lib/iov_iter.c:356
 generic_perform_write+0x1f1/0x5c0 mm/filemap.c:3852
 __generic_file_write_iter+0x148/0x2a0 mm/filemap.c:3960
 generic_file_write_iter+0xab/0x2e0 mm/filemap.c:3989
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2265 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x4b1/0xa30 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x14c/0x250 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f1af3d9c629
RSP: 002b:00007f1af1ff6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1af4015fa0 RCX: 00007f1af3d9c629
RDX: 000000000208e24b RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f1af3e32b39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1af4016038 R14: 00007f1af4015fa0 R15: 00007ffe0998d758
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10528 jiffies! g34849 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:27760 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6638
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x303/0x1340 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1905
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:742
Code: 48 89 df e8 27 c3 9c f7 e9 44 ff ff ff e8 3d 07 f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 66 90 0f 00 2d 77 0c 50 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000177de8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: f16f251417294600 RBX: ffffffff8a36a2b7 RCX: f16f251417294600
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a8c1220 RDI: ffffffff8adf0de0
RBP: ffffc90000177f20 R08: ffff8880b8f3580b R09: 1ffff110171e6b01
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6b02 R12: 1ffff9200002efc8
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88813fef9dc0 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005581e8e21a38 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 default_idle_call+0x84/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:109
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x20d/0x5a0 kernel/sched/idle.c:303
 cpu_startup_entry+0x3f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 start_secondary+0xe4/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:281
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xcf/0xdb
 </TASK>

Crashes (17):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/20 04:59 linux-6.1.y 779f9571ac3e c8d8c52d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2026/01/07 23:20 linux-6.1.y 50cbba13faa2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2026/01/03 06:50 linux-6.1.y 50cbba13faa2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/12/29 16:16 linux-6.1.y 50cbba13faa2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/12/22 12:05 linux-6.1.y 50cbba13faa2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/12/06 05:47 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/12/05 10:54 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/12/04 02:50 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/11/02 17:38 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/08/31 16:47 linux-6.1.y f89b6e15694c 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/08/07 23:39 linux-6.1.y 3594f306da12 04cffc22 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/06/14 01:08 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f 0e8da31f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/04/17 21:02 linux-6.1.y 420102835862 229db4cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/04/02 11:35 linux-6.1.y 8e60a714ba3b c799dfdd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/03/23 05:33 linux-6.1.y 344a09659766 4e8d3850 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2025/01/28 00:13 linux-6.1.y 75cefdf153f5 18070896 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
2024/12/19 01:49 linux-6.1.y 52f863f820fd 1432fc84 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_write_iter
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.