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INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/10 04:09
Reported-by: syzbot+d2f8d9990c9a9fb93118@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d02h, last: 3d02h
Similar bugs (19)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 origin:lts-only 1 C inconclusive 2 219d 283d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/02 07:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (5) mm 1 7 559d 769d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/30 08:38
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 mm 1 2 1643d 1669d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:10
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (2) 1 1 134d 134d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/09 00:21
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 1 2 341d 375d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/14 02:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (2) kernfs 1 1 1491d 1491d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/10 23:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (3) kernel 1 1 1240d 1240d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/19 23:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (4) mm net 1 2 1053d 1133d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/22 09:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (6) prio:high mm cgroups 1 40 6d10h 46d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/05/28 01:12
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (3) mm 1 26 483d 678d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/14 09:25
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (3) 1 3 597d 656d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/02 13:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 kernfs 1 1 1512d 1512d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/20 13:01
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 1 1 646d 646d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/12 11:21
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) mm 1 3 777d 880d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/25 02:20
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 1 1 919d 915d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/04/15 06:45
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (4) 1 1 459d 459d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/18 19:29
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) 1 1 513d 513d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/25 09:12
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) 1 1 779d 779d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/01 21:33
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone3 1 1 186d 186d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/07 17:52

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P19821/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=102645, q=4)
task:kworker/u4:7    state:R  running task     stack:22640 pid:19821 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_nc_worker
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4350 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6799
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:432
 asm_sysvec_reschedule_ipi+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:681
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:741 [inline]
RIP: 0010:batadv_nc_purge_orig_hash net/batman-adv/network-coding.c:412 [inline]
RIP: 0010:batadv_nc_worker+0xd4/0x5c0 net/batman-adv/network-coding.c:723
Code: 08 48 89 ef e8 2d 5d 2a f8 4e 8d 2c e5 00 00 00 00 4c 03 6d 00 e8 6c 97 d1 f7 e8 27 7b 00 00 e8 22 68 2b 00 89 c5 31 ff 89 c6 <e8> e7 41 e5 f7 85 ed 74 10 e8 5e e9 d0 f7 84 c0 74 0e e8 75 3e e5
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032dfbe0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffff888066b21dc0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff203d218
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203d219 R12: 0000000000000009
R13: ffff888017dac048 R14: ffff8880788f8c80 R15: ffff88802a6e5dd0
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g102645 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:28112 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 27410 Comm: syz.3.5957 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:get_current arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:15 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1683 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__hrtimer_run_queues+0x4b5/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
Code: 04 38 84 c0 0f 85 d0 02 00 00 0f b6 1b 31 ff 89 de e8 1f 45 10 00 85 db 74 10 e8 b6 42 10 00 4c 89 ef 41 ff d4 41 89 c4 eb 4c <e8> a6 42 10 00 65 4c 8b 35 be bf 99 7e 49 81 c6 d8 0a 00 00 4c 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dd0d60 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff8168afe1 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88804a1d9dc0
RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90000dd0ec0 R08: ffffffff8d8aeaef R09: 1ffffffff1b15d5d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1b15d5e R12: ffffffff8819bdb0
R13: ffff88805ceb1340 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00005555626b0500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe5358e5d58 CR3: 000000002e426000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 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+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:instrument_write include/linux/instrumented.h:41 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:27 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__set_page_owner_handle mm/page_owner.c:166 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__set_page_owner+0x1a6/0x2d0 mm/page_owner.c:182
Code: 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 18 00 74 08 4c 89 ef e8 20 a9 f9 ff 4d 89 65 00 4c 89 f7 be 08 00 00 00 e8 2f aa f9 ff 49 0f ba 2e 00 <4c> 89 f7 be 08 00 00 00 e8 1d aa f9 ff 49 0f ba 2e 01 48 8b 44 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc900043cf250 EFLAGS: 00000257
RAX: 1ffff11003366901 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffffffff81c46891
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff888019b34d60
RBP: 0000000000100cc0 R08: ffff888019b34d67 R09: 1ffff110033669ac
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10033669ad R12: 00000160886cba65
R13: ffff888019b34d78 R14: ffff888019b34d60 R15: 0000000000000000
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 __get_free_pages+0x8/0x30 mm/page_alloc.c:5538
 kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte+0x21/0xc0 mm/kasan/shadow.c:266
 apply_to_pte_range mm/memory.c:2573 [inline]
 apply_to_pmd_range mm/memory.c:2617 [inline]
 apply_to_pud_range mm/memory.c:2653 [inline]
 apply_to_p4d_range mm/memory.c:2689 [inline]
 __apply_to_page_range+0x987/0xd10 mm/memory.c:2725
 alloc_vmap_area+0x19e8/0x1b30 mm/vmalloc.c:1572
 __get_vm_area_node+0x14f/0x2d0 mm/vmalloc.c:2430
 __vmalloc_node_range+0xef/0x8b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3027
 alloc_thread_stack_node kernel/fork.c:247 [inline]
 dup_task_struct+0x41a/0xb70 kernel/fork.c:900
 copy_process+0x61f/0x3ec0 kernel/fork.c:2122
 kernel_clone+0x23f/0x990 kernel/fork.c:2681
 __do_sys_clone3 kernel/fork.c:2956 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone3+0x312/0x3d0 kernel/fork.c:2940
 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: 0033:0x7fe5376cfc49
Code: 90 b8 01 00 00 00 b9 01 00 00 00 eb ec 0f 1f 40 00 b8 ea ff ff ff 48 85 ff 74 28 48 85 d2 74 23 49 89 c8 b8 b3 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 85 c0 7c 14 74 01 c3 31 ed 4c 89 c7 ff d2 48 89 c7 b8 3c 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007ffcaeae7278 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b3
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe53768b1e0 RCX: 00007fe5376cfc49
RDX: 00007fe53768b1e0 RSI: 0000000000000058 RDI: 00007ffcaeae72d0
RBP: 00007fe5358e56c0 R08: 00007fe5358e56c0 R09: 00007ffcaeae73b7
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: ffffffffffffffe8
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007ffcaeae72d0 R15: 00007ffcaeae73b8
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/10 04:08 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 4167ee25 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.