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INFO: rcu detected stall in btrfs_do_write_iter

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/12/21 18:08
Reported-by: syzbot+c131121bd1e1573455e9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 74d, last: 74d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in btrfs_do_write_iter btrfs 1 1 647d 647d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/07/26 02:16

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (0 ticks this GP) idle=a474/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=69298/69298 fqs=3
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=77033, q=230 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 13557 Comm: syz.8.1382 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:do_raw_spin_lock+0x19f/0x2c0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:118
Code: 20 0e 36 e0 45 48 8b 44 24 18 4a c7 04 38 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 3b 44 24 60 0f 85 13 01 00 00 48 8d 65 d8 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 e8 21 8c b3 02 85 c0 0f 84 dd fe
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001f0c68 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 450ff3418cb07400 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffc900001f0c20
RBP: ffffc900001f0c90 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200003e184 R12: ffff8880b8f2b710
R13: ffff8880b8f2b708 R14: 1ffff110171e56e2 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f54ec7f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000040000 CR3: 000000002e17b000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __raw_spin_lock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:120 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irq+0xaf/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:170
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x5e3/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1814
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3c9/0x9c0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1876
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1077 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xfb/0x3b0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1094
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9f/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:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xa9/0x110 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: 74 05 e8 0a d9 1a f7 48 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f6 44 24 21 02 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> e2 53 ea f6 65 8b 05 d3 9a 92 75 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc900045df120 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 450ff3418cb07400 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: 450ff3418cb07400
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aaabce0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc900045df1a0 R08: ffffffff90d94647 R09: 1ffffffff21b28c8
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff21b28c9 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888064ef22f0 R14: ffffffff970ae268 R15: 1ffff920008bbe24
 __debug_check_no_obj_freed lib/debugobjects.c:999 [inline]
 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x51f/0x540 lib/debugobjects.c:1020
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1786 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xd2/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0xf8/0x280 mm/slub.c:3852
 btrfs_put_delayed_ref_head fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h:372 [inline]
 cleanup_ref_head fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:1932 [inline]
 __btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x2ba0/0x3770 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2097
 btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x13f/0x460 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2197
 btrfs_commit_transaction+0x270/0x3760 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2184
 btrfs_sync_file+0xf1a/0x1350 fs/btrfs/file.c:2023
 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2651 [inline]
 btrfs_do_write_iter+0xb11/0x11b0 fs/btrfs/file.c:1696
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x43b/0x940 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x147/0x250 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f54ee58f749
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:00007f54ec7f6038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f54ee7e6090 RCX: 00007f54ee58f749
RDX: 000000000000029f RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f54ee613f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f54ee7e6128 R14: 00007f54ee7e6090 R15: 00007ffd1bfaef28
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10496 jiffies! g77033 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:26680 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6773
 schedule_timeout+0x160/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x302/0x1560 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 0 PID: 5909 Comm: kworker/u4:12 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:311 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xddf/0x1130 kernel/smp.c:855
Code: 45 8b 2c 24 44 89 ee 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 6a d7 0a 00 41 83 e5 01 49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 07 e8 a5 d3 0a 00 eb 38 f3 90 <42> 0f b6 04 2b 84 c0 75 11 41 f7 04 24 01 00 00 00 74 1e e8 89 d3
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004d0f780 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff817abd37 RBX: 1ffff110171e826d RCX: ffff888021e90000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90004d0f900 R08: ffffffff90d94507 R09: 1ffffffff21b28a0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff21b28a1 R12: ffff8880b8f41368
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b8e3d148 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f7a79e91001 CR3: 000000000cb30000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3f/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1022
 on_each_cpu include/linux/smp.h:71 [inline]
 text_poke_sync arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2222 [inline]
 text_poke_bp_batch+0x318/0x930 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2432
 text_poke_flush arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2623 [inline]
 text_poke_finish+0x30/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2630
 arch_jump_label_transform_apply+0x1c/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:146
 static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x123/0x240 kernel/jump_label.c:207
 static_key_enable+0x1a/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:220
 toggle_allocation_gate+0xaa/0x250 mm/kfence/core.c:831
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/21 18:07 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in btrfs_do_write_iter
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.