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INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file (4)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/14 00:35
Reported-by: syzbot+bde8280833fcc88121dd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d07h, last: 1h10m
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file (3) 1 3 107d 278d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/11 12:22
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file 1 1 543d 543d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/01 14:21
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file 1 1 22d 22d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/05/27 21:33
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file (2) 1 1 389d 389d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/02 23:08

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P3560/1:b..l P604/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=221165, q=150)
task:syz.0.6936      state:R  running task     stack:26032 pid:  604 ppid: 29171 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6799
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:432
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x208/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5627
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 04 f8 0f 85 f1 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 43 c7 44 3d 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003b572c0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 5556822631bbba00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b4420 RDI: ffffffff8a7a09c0
RBP: ffffc90003b573e0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff203b018
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203b019 R12: ffffffff8c31f360
R13: 1ffff9200076ae64 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:313
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:740 [inline]
 is_bpf_text_address+0x1d/0x270 kernel/bpf/core.c:725
 kernel_text_address kernel/extable.c:151 [inline]
 __kernel_text_address+0x9a/0x100 kernel/extable.c:105
 unwind_get_return_address+0x49/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:323
 arch_stack_walk+0xf2/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 stack_trace_save+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x121/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:119
 __set_page_owner+0x41/0x2d0 mm/page_owner.c:181
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1bbd/0x1ca0 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 vm_area_alloc_pages mm/vmalloc.c:2876 [inline]
 __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:2932 [inline]
 __vmalloc_node_range+0x4b2/0x8b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3037
 vmalloc_user+0x70/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3173
 kcov_mmap+0x27/0x120 kernel/kcov.c:474
 call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:2178 [inline]
 mmap_file+0x5d/0xb0 mm/util.c:1092
 __mmap_region mm/mmap.c:1796 [inline]
 mmap_region+0xf88/0x1650 mm/mmap.c:2933
 do_mmap+0x819/0xe90 mm/mmap.c:1586
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x1c1/0x2d0 mm/util.c:551
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x54b/0x790 mm/mmap.c:1635
 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: 0033:0x7fe57a808bc2
RSP: 002b:00007ffcaf9ac4e8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe5785ff000 RCX: 00007fe57a808bc2
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 00007fe5785ff000
RBP: 0000000000000011 R08: 00000000000000db R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000011 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 0000000000000006 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fe57aa81fa0
 </TASK>
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:21648 pid: 3560 ppid:     1 flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6571
 preempt_schedule+0xbc/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6596
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:34
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x10d/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
 spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:419 [inline]
 __wake_up_common_lock kernel/sched/wait.c:140 [inline]
 __wake_up_sync_key+0x128/0x190 kernel/sched/wait.c:205
 sock_def_readable+0x136/0x250 net/core/sock.c:3101
 __netlink_sendskb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1264 [inline]
 netlink_sendskb+0x97/0x130 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1270
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ba/0xbe0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1918
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:706 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5b7/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2445
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2499
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2528 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2537 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x1af/0x290 net/socket.c:2535
 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: 0033:0x7f69f93ac407
RSP: 002b:00007ffc500ba310 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f69f92be880 RCX: 00007f69f93ac407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffc500ba370 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00005620cc836020 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00000000000000b5
R13: 00005620cc8139e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9736 jiffies! g221165 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:28112 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2117
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2be/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9b/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 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_check_gp_kthread_starvation+0x1cd/0x250 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:487
 print_other_cpu_stall+0x1110/0x1270 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x843/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021
 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+0x4b4/0xb70 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+0x9b/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:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:730
Code: b7 48 89 df e8 e6 97 f7 f7 eb ad e8 4f af f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 66 90 0f 00 2d d7 05 5f 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:ffffffff8c007dc8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 783846ad037e0800 RBX: ffffffff8c0bc480 RCX: 783846ad037e0800
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a2b3180 RDI: ffffffff8a7a09c0
RBP: ffffffff8c007ef8 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: 1ffffffff1800fc4
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffffffff1817890 R15: 0000000000000000
 default_idle_call+0x81/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:112
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:202 [inline]
 do_idle+0x3a1/0x650 kernel/sched/idle.c:326
 cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:424
 start_kernel+0x489/0x540 init/main.c:1154
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb1/0xbb
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/19 06:42 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file
2026/06/14 00:35 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.