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INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/20 00:57
Reported-by: syzbot+c4956fba553abbcc9f30@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 289d, last: 3d20h
Similar bugs (14)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream BUG: soft lockup in call_timer_fn net mm 1 19 705d 748d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/08 10:43
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn 1 2 631d 702d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/21 02:15
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn (2) 1 16 2069d 2343d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/03/04 12:30
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn (5) net input usb 1 C 9 360d 494d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/02/27 04:11
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn (2) 1 1 2132d 2132d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/12/31 22:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn (2) kernel 1 C done error 47 1629d 2485d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:46
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn bpf net 1 2 2823d 2835d 0/29 closed as dup on 2019/01/02 16:26
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn 1 1 2483d 2483d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/01/15 18:43
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn (2) 1 2 126d 147d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/09 18:18
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn 1 5 2256d 2376d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/08/29 09:07
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn (4) mm 1 1 886d 886d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/31 10:44
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn (3) kernel 1 3 1368d 1383d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/12 18:45
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in call_timer_fn 1 C error 31 1219d 1822d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2021/07/10 02:48
upstream BUG: soft lockup in call_timer_fn (2) trace 1 1 632d 628d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/10 05:15

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P3562/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=6557, q=456)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:25936 pid: 3562 ppid:     1 flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4350 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:1923
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:706 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5be/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2446
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2500
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2529 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2538 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2536
 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: 0033:0x7f042cdea407
RSP: 002b:00007ffc104ae630 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f042ccfc880 RCX: 00007f042cdea407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffc104ae690 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000562cc13cf3f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00000000000000b2
R13: 0000562cc137b9e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10516 jiffies! g6557 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:27872 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4350 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/0x11f0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9a/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x42e/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 1
CPU: 1 PID: 4315 Comm: syz.1.16 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+0x845/0x1120 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+0x4b0/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x397/0x8b0 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+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:13 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x34d/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5594
Code: 61 00 e9 be fd ff ff e8 31 fb 5c 08 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c e7 fd ff ff 4c 89 f7 e8 68 37 61 00 e9 da fd ff ff <65> 44 8b 35 f3 39 a5 7e 41 83 fe 08 0f 83 93 00 00 00 44 89 f0 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dd0a60 EFLAGS: 00000a02
RAX: f2f2f2f8f1f1f1f1 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90000dd0bc0
RBP: ffffc90000dd0b68 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520001ba17b R12: ffffc90000dd0bc0
R13: 1ffff920001ba158 R14: 1ffff920001ba174 R15: dffffc0000000000
 call_timer_fn+0xe6/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1645
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1699 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x56c/0x810 kernel/time/timer.c:1970
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1983
 handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 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:trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:13 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x34d/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5594
Code: 61 00 e9 be fd ff ff e8 31 fb 5c 08 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c e7 fd ff ff 4c 89 f7 e8 68 37 61 00 e9 da fd ff ff <65> 44 8b 35 f3 39 a5 7e 41 83 fe 08 0f 83 93 00 00 00 44 89 f0 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000322f640 EFLAGS: 00000a06
RAX: f2f2f2f8f1f1f1f1 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8c31ef20
RBP: ffffc9000322f760 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1b13c0e R12: ffffffff8c31ef20
R13: 1ffff92000645ed4 R14: ffff88802c86c040 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:313
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:740 [inline]
 inet_twsk_purge+0x10d/0x820 net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c:268
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:177 [inline]
 setup_net+0x842/0xa10 net/core/net_namespace.c:365
 copy_net_ns+0x33e/0x5b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:503
 create_new_namespaces+0x3ce/0x700 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 copy_namespaces+0x378/0x3d0 kernel/nsproxy.c:178
 copy_process+0x1844/0x3ec0 kernel/fork.c:2294
 kernel_clone+0x23f/0x990 kernel/fork.c:2681
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2798 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2782 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x19a/0x210 kernel/fork.c:2782
 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: 0033:0x7fbebc49ce59
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fbeba6f4fd8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbebc724fa0 RCX: 00007fbebc49ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000040004000
RBP: 00007fbebc532e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fbebc725038 R14: 00007fbebc724fa0 R15: 00007ffd0f5598b8
 </TASK>

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/02 10:03 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 27192279 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
2026/06/07 20:23 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
2026/03/18 20:54 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 0199f9a1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
2026/02/25 21:08 linux-5.15.y 3330a8d33e08 94a9671e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
2026/01/25 11:13 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
2025/11/30 15:21 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
2025/11/30 11:57 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
2025/10/23 14:22 linux-5.15.y ac56c046adf4 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
2025/09/20 00:57 linux-5.15.y 43bb85222e53 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in call_timer_fn
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.