INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/04 22:55
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+e4aa91d7f20c34417d4e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 281d, last: 12d
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[PATCH net v3] net/sched: taprio: catch up in bounded time when the schedule falls behind 2 (2) 2026/09/03 00:36
[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete 2 (6) 2026/08/31 11:43
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (5)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/31 08:42 30m junjie.cao@intel.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git 1bb784eb6e38fd73143f021608e4ef3095d0c0d7 OK job log log
2026/08/29 21:58 36m akpm@linux-foundation.org patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git main OK job log log
2026/06/22 19:27 25m retest repro upstream error
2026/04/13 10:22 1h47m retest repro upstream report log
2026/01/17 12:43 26m retest repro upstream error

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=a1cc/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=17251/17256 fqs=2
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P4982/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=15057, q=530 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6026 Comm: cmp Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:107 [inline]
RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2170 [inline]
RIP: 0010:atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1302 [inline]
RIP: 0010:queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:112 [inline]
RIP: 0010:do_raw_spin_lock+0x12b/0x2f0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:116
Code: 14 04 04 c7 44 24 40 00 00 00 00 48 89 df be 04 00 00 00 49 89 d6 e8 34 c1 93 00 48 8d 7c 24 40 be 04 00 00 00 e8 25 c1 93 00 <8b> 44 24 40 b9 01 00 00 00 f0 0f b1 0b 0f 85 20 01 00 00 43 c6 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007c40 EFLAGS: 00000097
RAX: 00000000ffffff01 RBX: ffff88807cbce2a8 RCX: ffffffff81a3bd0b
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffc90000007c80
RBP: ffffc90000007ce8 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000000f90 R12: 1ffff92000000f8c
R13: ffff88807cbce2b0 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff1100f979c56
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124ce0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2972a84000 CR3: 0000000073aec000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:347 [inline]
 advance_sched+0xc2/0xc80 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:931
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2067 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x3bc/0xa10 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2124
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x4cd/0xaa0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2243
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1051 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x102/0x430 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1068
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa1/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x232/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5913
Code: ff ff ff e8 40 dc 3f 0a f7 44 24 10 00 02 00 00 0f 84 38 ff ff ff 65 48 8b 05 92 e7 f0 11 48 3b 44 24 50 75 33 fb 48 83 c4 58 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d 07 23 da
RSP: 0018:ffffc900037eeda0 EFLAGS: 00000296
RAX: 27e016d3b0e95d00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 00000000e9c5941a RSI: ffffffff8e6fac39 RDI: ffffffff8c6d8b80
RBP: ffff88801df9be80 R08: 7a00000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8ed5c6e0 R12: ffffffff8ed5c6e0
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000246
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:309 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:849 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1216 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xac/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x321/0x600 mm/slub.c:5563
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2700 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x156/0x650 mm/slub.c:6626
 remove_vma mm/vma.c:517 [inline]
 vms_complete_munmap_vmas+0x897/0xbe0 mm/vma.c:1441
 __mmap_complete+0xab/0x4b0 mm/vma.c:2721
 __mmap_region mm/vma.c:2888 [inline]
 mmap_region+0x11d0/0x2240 mm/vma.c:2964
 do_mmap+0xe0a/0x1300 mm/mmap.c:573
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x272/0x4e0 mm/util.c:581
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x4dc/0x760 mm/mmap.c:619
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2972aaf242
Code: 08 00 04 00 00 eb e2 90 41 f7 c1 ff 0f 00 00 75 27 55 89 cd 53 48 89 fb 48 85 ff 74 33 41 89 ea 48 89 df b8 09 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5e 5b 5d c3 0f 1f 00 c7 05 46 40 01 00 16 00
RSP: 002b:00007ffd9a1c6af8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f29727db000 RCX: 00007f2972aaf242
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000004000 RDI: 00007f29727db000
RBP: 0000000000000812 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 000000000000b000
R10: 0000000000000812 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffd9a1c6b80
R13: 00007f2972a83b20 R14: 00007ffd9a1c6f30 R15: 00000fffb3438d62
 </TASK>
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:26384 pid:4982  tgid:4982  ppid:1      task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5520 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d4/0x5820 kernel/sched/core.c:7270
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4b/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7592
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x910 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x6d/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5882
Code: 9b 01 00 00 89 c0 48 0f a3 05 b7 eb d6 0e 73 0d e8 68 34 09 00 84 c0 0f 84 e2 01 00 00 83 3d a9 1c d7 0e 00 0f 84 e9 00 00 00 <48> 8b b4 24 88 00 00 00 4c 89 e7 e8 33 3a 94 00 83 3d 8c 1c d7 0e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900044df268 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 8000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8c6d8b60 RDI: ffffffff8c6d8b20
RBP: 1ffff9200089be7c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc900044df3f8 R11: ffffffff81b272d0 R12: ffffffff8ed5c6e0
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:309 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:849 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1216 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xac/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x650 mm/slub.c:6792
 tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x32c/0x470 security/tomoyo/file.c:791
 security_file_open+0xa9/0x240 security/security.c:2739
 do_dentry_open+0x4a0/0x1380 fs/open.c:973
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1101
 do_open fs/namei.c:4837 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1443/0x1d60 fs/namei.c:5000
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5029
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1417
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1434
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f22b3aa7407
RSP: 002b:00007fffdfe06440 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f22b425c880 RCX: 00007f22b3aa7407
RDX: 0000000000080141 RSI: 0000559823bb502e RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000000001a4 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00000000ffffffff
R13: 00000000ffffffff R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10498 jiffies! g15057 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=R ->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:27496 pid:17    tgid:17    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5520 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d4/0x5820 kernel/sched/core.c:7270
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7347 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x2b0 kernel/sched/core.c:7362
 schedule_timeout+0x152/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x30c/0x11f0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2122
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2330
 kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:363 [inline]
RIP: 0010:csd_lock kernel/smp.c:396 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0x61e/0x1500 kernel/smp.c:944
Code: b6 04 04 84 c0 0f 85 d5 03 00 00 44 8b 3b 44 89 fe 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 51 51 0c 00 41 83 e7 01 75 07 e8 46 4c 0c 00 eb 3f f3 90 <48> b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 0f b6 04 04 84 c0 75 0f f7 03 01
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000117720 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81bb677e RBX: ffff8880b8643708 RCX: ffff88801def8000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90000117870 R08: ffff88801def959f R09: 1ffff11003bdf2b3
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 1ffff110170c86e1
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880b8643700 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124de0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555570500a38 CR3: 000000000eb48000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 on_each_cpu include/linux/smp.h:71 [inline]
 smp_text_poke_sync_each_cpu arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2602 [inline]
 smp_text_poke_batch_finish+0x5fd/0x1110 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2812
 arch_jump_label_transform_apply+0x1c/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:146
 static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x128/0x240 kernel/jump_label.c:210
 static_key_enable+0x1a/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:223
 toggle_allocation_gate+0xab/0x290 mm/kfence/core.c:902
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3387 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3470
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
 kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (12):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/29 20:56 net-next 1b78070aaef6 2f52988a .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2025/12/31 22:51 upstream c8ebd433459b d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2026/09/02 21:58 net 70f3995830d3 85995287 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2026/08/16 09:52 upstream 3eb40771c00a 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2025/12/27 05:18 upstream 3f0e9c8cefa9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2025/12/10 04:15 upstream c9b47175e913 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2026/08/21 02:02 upstream a4ff2be345d0 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2026/07/08 13:05 net 1a3267a8c9ec ab40da58 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2026/01/03 08:10 net-next dbf8fe85a16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2026/02/08 12:04 linux-next 9845cf73f7db 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2026/01/02 06:48 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
2025/12/07 23:13 linux-next 6987d58a9cbc d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in __mmap_complete
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.