syzbot


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: 439d, last: 9d05h
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 960d 960d 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 2343d 2503d 0/29 closed as dup on 2019/01/02 16:58
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 4 4d07h 61d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/06/16 23:06
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 7 371d 435d 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 730d 750d 23/29 fixed on 2023/10/12 12:48
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 1 714d 714d 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 1209d 1209d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/25 08:10
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (2) 1 10 3d14h 242d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/12/17 16:40
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (2) cgroups mm 1 1 2082d 2082d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (6) mm 1 C 132 6d16h 331d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/09/19 14:28

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=755/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=39345/39346 fqs=7 
	(detected by 1, t=10506 jiffies, g=58109, q=636)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 12137 Comm: syz.4.2726 Not tainted 5.15.189-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:85 [inline]
RIP: 0010:do_raw_spin_lock+0x7a/0x280 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:114
Code: 4c 24 20 48 c1 e9 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 04 f3 f3 f3 48 89 4c 24 18 4a 89 04 39 4c 8d 77 04 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 38 <84> c0 0f 85 9a 01 00 00 41 8b 06 3d ad 4e ad de 0f 85 16 01 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007b40 EFLAGS: 00000807
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff9633a4b0 RCX: 1ffff92000000f6c
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b2860 RDI: ffffffff9633a4b0
RBP: ffffc90000007bf0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff6e19
R10: fffffbfff1ff6e19 R11: 1ffffffff1ff6e18 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffffff9633a4a8 R14: ffffffff9633a4b4 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007fc869d816c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055558e6c1808 CR3: 000000004fa97000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:117 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xb0/0xf0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 debug_object_deactivate+0x63/0x340 lib/debugobjects.c:749
 debug_hrtimer_deactivate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:415 [inline]
 debug_deactivate+0x1d/0x1c0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:471
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1658 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x2db/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1816
 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:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:174 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:227 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x2c/0x80 kernel/kcov.c:293
Code: 04 24 65 48 8b 0d 34 a8 8a 7e 65 8b 15 35 a8 8a 7e 81 e2 00 01 ff 00 74 11 81 fa 00 01 00 00 75 5b 83 b9 34 16 00 00 00 74 52 <8b> 91 10 16 00 00 83 fa 03 75 47 48 8b 91 18 16 00 00 44 8b 89 14
RSP: 0018:ffffc900015df460 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff81b5c6be RBX: 00fff00000080001 RCX: ffff88802b6dbb80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff6e19
R10: fffffbfff1ff6e19 R11: 1ffffffff1ff6e18 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880250b4800 R15: ffff88802b6dbb80
 task_css include/linux/cgroup.h:496 [inline]
 blk_cgroup_congested include/linux/blk-cgroup.h:283 [inline]
 __cgroup_throttle_swaprate+0x13e/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:2635 [inline]
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x203/0x2b0 mm/util.c:556
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x140/0x780 mm/mmap.c:1631
 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: 0033:0x7fc86bb19be9
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:00007fc869d81038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fc86bd40fa0 RCX: 00007fc86bb19be9
RDX: b635773f06ebbeef RSI: 0000000000b36000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007fc86bb9ce19 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008031 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fc86bd41038 R14: 00007fc86bd40fa0 R15: 00007fffc7e44658
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10470 jiffies! g58109 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:28128 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5030 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11b8/0x43b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6376
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6459
 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:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 12145 Comm: syz.2.2728 Not tainted 5.15.189-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x397/0x3d0 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+0x10c8/0x1220 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+0x831/0x1110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 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:1690 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4fe/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1816
 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:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:440 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xb88/0xd70 kernel/smp.c:969
Code: b6 44 05 00 84 c0 0f 85 9d 00 00 00 41 8b 1c 24 89 de 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 a6 46 0b 00 83 e3 01 75 07 e8 3c 43 0b 00 eb 43 f3 90 <48> b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 0f b6 44 05 00 84 c0 75 11 41 f7
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000321f2c0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff816c810b RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000c3d1000 RSI: 000000000007ffff RDI: 0000000000080000
RBP: ffffc9000321f400 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff6e1a
R10: fffffbfff1ff6e1a R11: 1ffffffff1ff6e19 R12: ffff8880b9042a08
R13: 1ffff11017208541 R14: ffff8880b913b380 R15: 0000000000000000
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3b/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1135
 __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x216/0x18f0 mm/vmalloc.c:1683
 _vm_unmap_aliases+0x410/0x4a0 mm/vmalloc.c:2107
 change_page_attr_set_clr+0x311/0xc10 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:1740
 change_page_attr_clear arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:1797 [inline]
 set_memory_ro+0x89/0xd0 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:1943
 bpf_jit_binary_lock_ro include/linux/filter.h:899 [inline]
 bpf_int_jit_compile+0xc4a8/0xcc80 arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:2478
 bpf_prog_select_runtime+0x74f/0xaa0 kernel/bpf/core.c:1934
 bpf_migrate_filter net/core/filter.c:1307 [inline]
 bpf_prepare_filter+0x1014/0x11c0 net/core/filter.c:1355
 bpf_prog_create_from_user+0x2ce/0x420 net/core/filter.c:1449
 seccomp_prepare_filter kernel/seccomp.c:669 [inline]
 seccomp_prepare_user_filter kernel/seccomp.c:706 [inline]
 seccomp_set_mode_filter kernel/seccomp.c:1834 [inline]
 do_seccomp+0x7b6/0x1630 kernel/seccomp.c:1954
 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: 0033:0x7fd2253f5be9
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:00007fd22365d038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000013d
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd22561cfa0 RCX: 00007fd2253f5be9
RDX: 00002000000000c0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 00007fd225478e19 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fd22561d038 R14: 00007fd22561cfa0 R15: 00007ffc3f23eba8
 </TASK>
vkms_vblank_simulate: vblank timer overrun

Crashes (17):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
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.