INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/05 00:01
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+d2401aeb74cc84adba04@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 542d, last: 5d17h
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4f1a87d0 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged (3) 2026/05/23 06:14 2026/05/23 06:14 2026/05/23 07:17 c69befb3
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[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged (3) 6 (7) 2026/08/06 17:19
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged (2) mm 1 1 722d 722d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/17 09:26
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged mm 1 1 1432d 1432d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/12/08 19:48
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged 1 1 57d 57d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/06/16 00:14

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:d6:71:31:10:18:e0, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P37/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=195185, q=1126 ncpus=1)
task:khugepaged      state:R  running task     stack:22440 pid:37    tgid:37    ppid:2      task_flags:0x200840 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5510 [inline]
 __schedule+0x125c/0x6730 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x50/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7556
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_preempt include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:468 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x205/0xa00 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x5e/0x370 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 05 fb b2 7e 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 da 00 00 00 48 0f a3 05 86 52 3d 0f 0f 82 ac 02 00 00 8b 35 2e 86 3d 0f 85 f6 0f 85 c7 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 9d b2 7e 12 0f 85 ec 02 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ad66e8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e183c7e RDI: ffffffff8c400a80
RBP: ffffffff8ebe8000 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:840 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1183 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xd1/0x2090 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x162/0x1e0 mm/page_owner.c:165
 __reset_page_owner+0x84/0x190 mm/page_owner.c:320
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xa44/0x1710 mm/page_alloc.c:3011
 shrink_folio_list+0x2fc5/0x60a0 mm/vmscan.c:1582
 shrink_inactive_list mm/vmscan.c:2030 [inline]
 shrink_list mm/vmscan.c:2226 [inline]
 shrink_lruvec+0x10d3/0x25b0 mm/vmscan.c:5925
 shrink_node_memcgs mm/vmscan.c:6127 [inline]
 shrink_node+0x778/0x3e90 mm/vmscan.c:6171
 shrink_zones mm/vmscan.c:6410 [inline]
 do_try_to_free_pages+0x33e/0x16d0 mm/vmscan.c:6472
 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0x2bf/0x840 mm/vmscan.c:6794
 try_charge_memcg+0x47f/0xdf0 mm/memcontrol.c:2655
 charge_memcg+0x187/0x1e0 mm/memcontrol.c:5126
 __mem_cgroup_charge+0x2b/0x1c0 mm/memcontrol.c:5143
 mem_cgroup_charge include/linux/memcontrol.h:657 [inline]
 alloc_charge_folio+0x215/0xa80 mm/khugepaged.c:1259
 collapse_huge_page+0x17f/0x3c60 mm/khugepaged.c:1295
 mthp_collapse mm/khugepaged.c:1523 [inline]
 collapse_scan_pmd mm/khugepaged.c:1785 [inline]
 collapse_single_pmd+0x313c/0x45a0 mm/khugepaged.c:2798
 collapse_scan_mm_slot mm/khugepaged.c:2913 [inline]
 khugepaged_do_scan mm/khugepaged.c:2993 [inline]
 khugepaged+0x10e6/0x14e0 mm/khugepaged.c:3048
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
net_ratelimit: 12476 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:d6:71:31:10:18:e0, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:d6:71:31:10:18:e0, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
net_ratelimit: 12019 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:d6:71:31:10:18:e0, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:d6:71:31:10:18:e0, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:d6:71:31:10:18:e0, vlan:0)

Crashes (33):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/06 10:46 upstream 0d8395707651 cc56899a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/08/05 03:36 upstream c21bb4193868 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/07/31 07:15 upstream 3708dd948844 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/07/01 01:03 upstream dc59e4fea9d8 00e8b0fd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/06/16 19:43 upstream 6b5a2b7d9bc1 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/05/06 23:08 upstream adc1e5c6203c cbcd9ea0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/04/12 08:32 upstream e753c16cb3dd 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/04/01 02:57 upstream d0c3bcd5b897 ef441708 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/02/15 02:26 upstream 3e48a11675c5 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/01/27 08:57 upstream fcb70a56f4d8 43e1df1d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/01/17 00:39 upstream 39d3389331ab d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/01/13 01:22 upstream 0f61b1860cc3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/01/03 07:29 upstream 9b0436804460 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/01/01 16:07 upstream b69053dd3ffb d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/12/25 07:08 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/12/07 11:06 upstream cc3ee4ba57b7 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/12/07 10:16 upstream cc3ee4ba57b7 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/12/04 09:43 upstream 8f7aa3d3c732 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/12/03 21:34 upstream 3f9f0252130e d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/11/27 01:23 upstream 30f09200cc4a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/11/06 03:28 upstream dc77806cf3b4 a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/11/02 09:02 upstream 691d401c7e0e 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/10/08 04:10 upstream 971199ad2a0f 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/08/04 20:27 upstream d2eedaa3909b f5bcc8dc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/07/02 10:45 upstream 66701750d556 bc80e4f0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/06/22 02:10 upstream 3f75bfff44be d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/06/10 15:57 upstream f09079bd04a9 5d7e17ca .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/05/11 05:42 upstream 345030986df8 77908e5f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/05/07 13:12 upstream 0d8d44db295c 350f4ffc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/02/15 23:27 upstream 7ff71e6d9239 40a34ec9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/08/06 05:57 upstream 0d8395707651 cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2026/04/21 20:46 upstream 4ee64205ffaa 0b6ab7ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
2025/07/06 10:54 linux-next 26ffb3d6f02c 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in khugepaged
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.