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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/03/27 11:38
Reported-by: syzbot+a0dc8f91386bb1406734@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 225d, last: 2d11h
Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (4) 1 1 220d 220d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/10 21:02
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (3) 1 1 369d 369d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/11 14:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2) kernel 1 2 1020d 1104d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/22 20:06
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (3) mm 1 C error 211 4d20h 816d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/08/13 23:42
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (5) 1 1 43d 43d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/09/25 16:42
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 4 435d 654d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/07 03:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2) 1 3 488d 499d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/15 13:02
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 8 18h23m 110d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/20 18:19
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink kasan mm 1 1 1195d 1195d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/29 07:23
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 1 605d 605d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/20 14:47
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_unlink 1 7 547d 569d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/07 01:29

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P3637/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=18409, q=163 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:24992 pid:3637  ppid:1      flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
 __schedule+0x10ec/0x40b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6561
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6873
 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:lock_acquire+0x20f/0x490 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5666
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f5 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3d 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 0b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003297cc0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 2880ae89827cee00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c1700 RDI: ffffffff8adef760
RBP: ffffc90003297dc8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff215c449
R10: fffffbfff215c449 R11: 1ffffffff215c448 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 1ffff92000652fa4 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 dput+0x53/0x1d0 fs/dcache.c:904
 path_put fs/namei.c:561 [inline]
 do_unlinkat+0x4c6/0x560 fs/namei.c:4414
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4446 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4444 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x45/0x50 fs/namei.c:4444
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f90b7b15937
RSP: 002b:00007ffd7bcd6d88 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000057
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000bb8 RCX: 00007f90b7b15937
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffd7bcd6e70 RDI: 000055b88ecfc02e
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 000055b88ed17100 R14: 000055b88ecfc008 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9645 jiffies! g18409 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:27848 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
 __schedule+0x10ec/0x40b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6561
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6637
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:2167
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2f2/0x1310 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x95/0x380 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:741

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/05 11:26 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/10/30 12:43 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/10/25 09:55 linux-6.1.y 8e6e2188d949 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/24 01:47 linux-6.1.y 363a599da6d9 e667a34f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/20 02:49 linux-6.1.y 363a599da6d9 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/10 06:06 linux-6.1.y f97f1002271b fdeaa69b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/08 18:04 linux-6.1.y 28c695c365e1 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/08/07 20:45 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 sys_unlink
2025/05/07 14:34 linux-6.1.y ac7079a42ea5 350f4ffc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/04/10 09:45 linux-6.1.y 3dfebb87d7eb 988b336c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/03/27 11:38 linux-6.1.y 344a09659766 20510e88 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.