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INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/06/03 20:13
Reported-by: syzbot+cf92cb07cc1063893ed7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 488d, last: 1d07h
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (4) kernel 1 1 1008d 1008d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/08 07:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault mm 1 13 2392d 2552d 0/29 closed as dup on 2019/01/02 16:58
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 6 24d 110d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/06/16 23:06
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 7 420d 484d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/18 20:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (5) cgroups mm 1 3 779d 799d 23/29 fixed on 2023/10/12 12:48
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 1 763d 763d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/11 11:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (3) mm fs 1 4 1257d 1258d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/25 08:10
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (2) 1 11 24d 291d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/12/17 16:40
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (2) cgroups mm 1 1 2131d 2131d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (6) mm 1 C 137 19h53m 380d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/09/19 14:28

Sample crash report:
usbtmc 2-1:16.0: usbtmc_read_bulk_cb - nonzero read bulk status received: -71
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P4967/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=11677, q=3)
task:syz.3.177       state:R  running task     stack:25056 pid: 4967 ppid:  4191 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 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_is_held_type+0x1/0x190 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5651
Code: c0 03 00 75 d6 48 c7 c7 c0 16 0b 8a 48 c7 c6 00 17 0b 8a e8 11 37 f5 ff 0f 0b eb bf e8 98 fd ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 <41> 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 10 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900037df458 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 1ffffffff1824101 RBX: 00fff00000080001 RCX: 04e2c4b968530300
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffffffff8c11c660
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff7a19
R10: fffffbfff1ff7a19 R11: 1ffffffff1ff7a18 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88802989e800 R15: ffff88802573002c
 task_css include/linux/cgroup.h:496 [inline]
 blk_cgroup_congested include/linux/blk-cgroup.h:283 [inline]
 __cgroup_throttle_swaprate+0x1e9/0x530 mm/swapfile.c:3809
 cgroup_throttle_swaprate include/linux/swap.h:728 [inline]
 shmem_add_to_page_cache+0xb7b/0x14b0 mm/shmem.c:727
 shmem_getpage_gfp+0x1793/0x2d40 mm/shmem.c:1940
 shmem_fault+0x1a9/0x520 mm/shmem.c:2118
 __do_fault+0x141/0x330 mm/memory.c:3928
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:4264 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4392 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4650 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:4785 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x2949/0x43c0 mm/memory.c:4883
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:976 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x93e/0x11c0 mm/gup.c:1197
 populate_vma_page_range+0x213/0x290 mm/gup.c:1529
 __mm_populate+0x26f/0x3a0 mm/gup.c:1638
 mm_populate include/linux/mm.h:2646 [inline]
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x203/0x2b0 mm/util.c:556
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x140/0x780 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: 0033:0x7f550221eec9
RSP: 002b:00007f5500486038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5502475fa0 RCX: 00007f550221eec9
RDX: b635773f06ebbeee RSI: 0000000000b36000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f55022a1f91 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008031 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5502476038 R14: 00007f5502475fa0 R15: 00007ffec6f3ff68
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10542 jiffies! g11677 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:28032 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x29e/0x11b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x98/0x350 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:
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:729

Crashes (19):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/03 21:06 linux-5.15.y 29e53a5b1c4f 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/08/18 08:43 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/08/08 03:41 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 6a893178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/07/07 05:08 linux-5.15.y 3dea0e7f549e 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/06/26 08:03 linux-5.15.y 1c700860e8bc 26d77996 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/06/24 16:43 linux-5.15.y 1c700860e8bc e2f27c35 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/06/24 16:38 linux-5.15.y 1c700860e8bc e2f27c35 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/06/22 16:16 linux-5.15.y 1c700860e8bc d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/05/25 09:01 linux-5.15.y 98f47d0e9b8c ed351ea7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/05/19 05:37 linux-5.15.y a68c15152131 f41472b0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/02/14 06:45 linux-5.15.y c16c81c81336 d9a046cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/02/05 16:19 linux-5.15.y c16c81c81336 4dc70884 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2024/12/02 17:59 linux-5.15.y 0a51d2d4527b b499ea68 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2024/10/27 20:55 linux-5.15.y 74cdd62cb470 65e8686b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2024/09/30 06:12 linux-5.15.y 3a5928702e71 ba29ff75 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2024/08/23 10:59 linux-5.15.y fa93fa65db6e ce8a9099 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2024/07/12 21:11 linux-5.15.y f45bea23c39c eaeb5c15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2024/06/03 20:12 linux-5.15.y c61bd26ae81a 0aba2352 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2024/09/19 06:48 linux-5.15.y 3a5928702e71 c673ca06 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.