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INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/28 18:58
Reported-by: syzbot+d77d02a11256ce87187c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 80d, last: 4d10h
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl mm 1 4 515d 590d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/18 05:25
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 1 468d 468d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/14 12:09
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 3 183d 207d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/26 13:49
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 1 86d 86d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/03/23 00:03
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2) 1 11 9d14h 206d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/11/23 13:35

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0-.... } 2673 jiffies s: 110093 root: 0x1/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 21242 Comm: syz.1.4954 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:kasan_addr_to_slab+0x9/0xc0 mm/kasan/common.c:36
Code: 08 75 11 31 c0 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 e8 28 fd 5b 08 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 53 48 89 fb e8 47 b5 66 ff <84> c0 74 47 48 89 df e8 5b b3 66 ff 48 c1 e8 06 48 83 e0 c0 48 ba
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007538 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff8880b8e3b9f0 RCX: 0000000000000100
RDX: ffff88805340da00 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8e2029ef R09: 1ffffffff1c4053d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c4053e R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000001 R14: ffff8880b8e3b9f0 R15: ffff8880b8e3b9f8
FS:  00007f49e27de6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2f814ff8 CR3: 0000000049966000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:471
 irq_work_queue_on+0x10f/0x260 kernel/irq_work.c:140
 rcu_read_unlock_special+0x3c9/0x510 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:678
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:823 [inline]
 __perf_event_output kernel/events/core.c:7741 [inline]
 perf_event_output_forward+0x271/0x2f0 kernel/events/core.c:7750
 __perf_event_overflow+0x448/0x610 kernel/events/core.c:9496
 perf_swevent_overflow kernel/events/core.c:9579 [inline]
 perf_swevent_event+0x315/0x570 kernel/events/core.c:9630
 perf_tp_event+0x3e7/0xc30 kernel/events/core.c:10064
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10032
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x268/0x320 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0xd3/0x140 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x24/0x40 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:728
RIP: 0010:variable_ffs arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:319 [inline]
RIP: 0010:handle_softirqs+0x1c8/0x930 kernel/softirq.c:584
Code: 89 7c 24 44 0f b7 db 48 c7 c7 80 10 8b 8a e8 0f 00 e0 08 65 66 c7 05 65 34 b4 7e 00 00 e8 40 79 39 00 fb 49 c7 c6 c0 a0 80 8c <89> 5c 24 4c b8 ff ff ff ff 0f bc 44 24 4c 41 89 c5 41 ff c5 0f 84
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007e00 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 1e5f1606ace78e00 RBX: 0000000000000200 RCX: 1e5f1606ace78e00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c1aa0 RDI: ffffffff8adf2060
RBP: ffffc90000007f30 R08: ffffffff90aff36f R09: 1ffffffff215fe6d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff215fe6e R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8c80a0c0 R15: 000000000000000a
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:679
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:691
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x1/0x510 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:630
Code: 45 66 00 eb b0 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 7c 94 49 89 fd 4c 89 f7 e8 fc 44 66 00 4c 89 ef eb 84 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 55 <48> 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 e4 e0 48 81 ec c0 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003f479e8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88805340de3c RCX: 1e5f1606ace78e00
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffffffff8adf2040 RDI: ffff88805340da00
RBP: 1ffff11004c5ea32 R08: ffffffff8e2029ef R09: 1ffffffff1c4053d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c4053e R12: 1ffff1100a681bc7
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88805340de40 R15: dffffc0000000000
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:823 [inline]
 get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg+0x12d/0x150 include/linux/memcontrol.h:525
 obj_cgroup_charge_pages mm/memcontrol.c:3097 [inline]
 obj_cgroup_charge+0x358/0x620 mm/memcontrol.c:3390
 memcg_slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:501 [inline]
 slab_pre_alloc_hook+0x2e7/0x310 mm/slab.h:715
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3279 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x4f/0x260 mm/slub.c:3398
 kmalloc_trace+0x26/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1026
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 bpf_prog_alloc_no_stats+0xb2/0x3a0 kernel/bpf/core.c:96
 bpf_prog_alloc+0x1c/0x1b0 kernel/bpf/core.c:130
 __get_filter+0xfb/0x410 net/core/filter.c:1506
 sk_attach_filter+0x20/0x140 net/core/filter.c:1541
 tun_attach_filter+0x180/0x2a0 drivers/net/tun.c:2946
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x17f7/0x1e60 drivers/net/tun.c:3338
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f49e199ce59
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:00007f49e27de028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f49e1c15fa0 RCX: 00007f49e199ce59
RDX: 0000200000000780 RSI: 00000000401054d5 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f49e1a32d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f49e1c16038 R14: 00007f49e1c15fa0 R15: 00007ffd8101c9e8
 </TASK>

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/13 06:25 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/05/13 16:16 linux-6.1.y ad16b162f21d fec2a7ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/04/18 21:34 linux-6.1.y 7c87defbd336 303e2802 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/03/28 18:58 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 b5ceaad2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.