INFO: rcu detected stall in kill

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/04/03 17:50
Subsystems: selinux
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+9b95da55ba5146a60734@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 143d, last: 32d
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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d3f50816 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in kill 2026/05/16 05:39 2026/05/16 05:39 2026/05/16 06:39 a15a64a6
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[syzbot] [kernel?] INFO: rcu detected stall in kill 0 (5) 2026/04/05 05:18
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kill cgroups mm 1 3 2419d 2455d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/14 10:15
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kill (3) kernel 1 4 683d 807d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/07 00:33
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kill (4) kernel 1 2 522d 545d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/16 20:07
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kill (2) kernel 1 1 1093d 1093d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/24 18:24
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (5)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/16 22:26 38m retest repro upstream no crash log
2026/04/05 05:18 16m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/05 04:41 17m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/05 02:19 16m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/05 01:21 17m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5969/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=14521, q=2117 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:22432 pid:5969  tgid:5969  ppid:5967   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5298 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15dd/0x52d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6911
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7238
 irqentry_exit+0x599/0x620 kernel/entry/common.c:239
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x2d7/0x3d0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5893
Code: 16 7b 11 00 00 00 00 eb b5 e8 45 73 0d 0a f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 b9 65 48 8b 05 c5 d0 7a 11 48 3b 44 24 28 75 44 fb 48 83 c4 30 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 95 81 6e ff cc 48 8d 3d 72 64 73
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003aafd78 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: d3d4042ff14ac900 RBX: 0000000000000202 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e16b29d RDI: ffffffff8c27d100
RBP: ffff8880290229d8 R08: ffffffff9011ccb7 R09: 1ffffffff2023996
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2023997 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8e75e5e0 R15: ffff888029021e80
 rcu_lock_release include/linux/rcupdate.h:322 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:881 [inline]
 kill_proc_info+0x168/0x180 kernel/signal.c:1481
 kill_something_info kernel/signal.c:1577 [inline]
 __do_sys_kill kernel/signal.c:3953 [inline]
 __se_sys_kill+0xd9/0x460 kernel/signal.c:3947
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fb210b3dda7
RSP: 002b:00007ffe1e460eb8 EFLAGS: 00000217 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000003e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fb210b3dda7
RDX: 0000000000000097 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffe1e460efc R08: 7fffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 4000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000217 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000064 R14: 000000000003f067 R15: 00007ffe1e460f50
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 3053 jiffies! g14521 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:27744 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5298 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15dd/0x52d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6911
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6993 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7008
 schedule_timeout+0x158/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x312/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3405 Comm: kworker/R-bat_e Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_tt_purge
RIP: 0010:get_current arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:25 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x8/0x70 kernel/kcov.c:216
Code: 8b 3d 04 8b 55 0c 48 89 de 5b e9 e3 99 5e 00 cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8b 04 24 <65> 48 8b 0d 28 db 56 11 65 8b 15 49 db 56 11 81 e2 00 01 ff 00 74
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000078f0 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff878d4630 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000100
RDX: ffff888033120000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff888156eed200 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000000f0c R12: ffff88802b35bc00
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff888029c47000 R15: ffff888029c47408
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125457000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000557a11963a38 CR3: 00000000677c5000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dummy_validate_stream drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1244 [inline]
 dummy_urb_enqueue+0x270/0x780 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1282
 usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x328/0x1b70 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1542
 ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb+0x4d5/0x6f0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:790
 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x376/0x540 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1657
 dummy_timer+0xbbd/0x45d0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1995
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1785 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x53a/0xcc0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1849
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x182/0x5a0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1866
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:395 [inline]
 batadv_tt_local_purge+0x2a7/0x340 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:1315
 batadv_tt_purge+0x35/0x9e0 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:3509
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3276 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb6e/0x18c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3359
 rescuer_thread+0x827/0x1130 kernel/workqueue.c:3583
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/02 10:43 upstream 9147566d8016 0cb124d5 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kill
2026/07/22 05:48 net ba712ecfd942 b561ce9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kill
2026/05/18 14:47 upstream 5200f5f493f7 55156e84 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kill
2026/05/13 03:48 upstream c21b90f77687 a0949470 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kill
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.