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INFO: rcu detected stall in irqentry_exit

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/08/25 11:36
Reported-by: syzbot+b88c7fb221e9dae9caf0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 8d07h, last: 5d04h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in irqentry_exit 1 1 381d 381d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/25 13:22
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in irqentry_exit 1 1 448d 448d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/18 22:14
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in irqentry_exit kernel 1 syz inconclusive inconclusive 2 257d 253d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/29 05:27

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-....: (1 ticks this GP) idle=7184/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=28731/28731 fqs=2100
rcu: 	         hardirqs   softirqs   csw/system
rcu: 	 number:  8575042          0            0
rcu: 	cputime:     6052      46461            0   ==> 52500(ms)
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=30233, q=184600 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 11484 Comm: syz.1.2690 Not tainted 6.6.102-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x0/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:186
Code: 48 c1 ee 03 48 01 c6 48 89 c7 e8 2b 5d 91 08 31 c0 c3 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff c3 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc <66> 0f 1f 00 b0 01 48 85 f6 0f 84 b8 01 00 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 55
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000071b8 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000010 RCX: ffffffff81706482
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000010 RDI: ffff8880b8e3d370
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8e4a882f R09: 1ffffffff1c95105
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c95106 R12: ffff8880b8e3d390
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b8e3d370 R15: 1ffff110171c7a72
FS:  00007ff7949466c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f101548fe9c CR3: 000000001b728000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __asan_memset+0x22/0x40 mm/kasan/shadow.c:84
 init_irq_work include/linux/irq_work.h:39 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock_special+0x332/0x4c0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:672
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x7c/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:818 [inline]
 __perf_event_output kernel/events/core.c:7983 [inline]
 perf_event_output_forward+0x2e6/0x3a0 kernel/events/core.c:7992
 __perf_event_overflow+0x447/0x630 kernel/events/core.c:9717
 perf_swevent_overflow kernel/events/core.c:9793 [inline]
 perf_swevent_event+0x2f5/0x5c0 kernel/events/core.c:-1
 perf_tp_event+0x4f9/0x13a0 kernel/events/core.c:10343
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf4/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10267
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x281/0x340 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable+0xbf/0xe0 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x18/0x40 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:56
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:723
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x88/0x4c0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:682
Code: f1 f1 f1 00 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 66 42 c7 44 2b 09 f3 f3 42 c6 44 2b 0b f3 65 44 8b 35 39 58 93 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 45 <48> c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 2b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007a00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 1790203948c65700 RBX: 1ffff92000000f48 RCX: 1790203948c65700
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aaab9c0 RDI: ffffffff8afc66c0
RBP: ffffc90000007b00 R08: ffffffff8e4a882f R09: 1ffffffff1c95105
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c95106 R12: ffffffff8cd35400
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x7c/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:818 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x403/0x6e0 net/core/dev.c:6039
 __napi_poll+0xc0/0x460 net/core/dev.c:6600
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6667 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x5ea/0xbf0 net/core/dev.c:6803
 handle_softirqs+0x280/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:612 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:452 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xc7/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:661
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:673
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:preempt_schedule_irq+0xb0/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:7009
Code: 44 24 20 f6 44 24 21 02 74 0b 0f 0b 48 f7 03 08 00 00 00 74 63 bf 01 00 00 00 e8 4b da e5 f6 e8 46 5f 16 f7 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> db b5 ff ff 48 c7 44 24 40 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 40 8b 44 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d0afda0 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 1790203948c65700 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 1790203948c65700
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aaab9c0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000d0afe40 R08: ffffffff8e4a882f R09: 1ffffffff1c95105
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c95106 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff92001a15fb4
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:__syscall_enter_from_user_work kernel/entry/common.c:97 [inline]
RIP: 0010:syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x2e/0x80 kernel/entry/common.c:118
Code: 41 56 53 48 89 f3 49 89 fe 48 8b 7c 24 10 e8 e9 fa ff ff 66 90 66 90 e8 b0 9f 1e f7 e8 6b 9f 1e f7 fb 65 48 8b 05 22 6b 96 75 <48> 8b 70 08 40 f6 c6 3f 74 0b 4c 89 f7 5b 41 5e e9 fd 2f 05 f7 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d0aff08 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: ffff88807bfd1e00 RBX: 00000000000000ca RCX: 1790203948c65700
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aaab9c0 RDI: ffffffff8afc66c0
RBP: ffffc9000d0aff48 R08: ffffffff8e4a882f R09: 1ffffffff1c95105
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c95106 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc9000d0aff58 R15: 0000000000000000
 do_syscall_64+0x28/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:77
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7ff793b8ebe9
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:00007ff7949460e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff793db5fa8 RCX: 00007ff793b8ebe9
RDX: 00000000000f4240 RSI: 0000000000000081 RDI: 00007ff793db5fac
RBP: 00007ff793db5fa0 R08: 0000000000745d1e R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff793db6038 R14: 00007ffe33084e20 R15: 00007ffe33084f08
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/28 14:10 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a e12e5ba4 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in irqentry_exit
2025/08/25 11:35 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in irqentry_exit
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.