INFO: rcu detected stall in __netlink_sendskb

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/26 19:55
Reported-by: syzbot+e4eb669934226588e232@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d05h, last: 2d05h

Sample crash report:
cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1-.... } 2691 jiffies s: 2533 root: 0x2/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 4547 Comm: syz.0.53 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:__kasan_check_read+0x2/0x10 mm/kasan/shadow.c:31
Code: 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 c7 c7 a3 fd 61 8c eb 0a 48 c7 c7 e3 7b 46 8c 48 89 de e8 c8 dc 53 08 31 ed eb d7 00 00 cc cc 89 f6 <48> 8b 0c 24 31 d2 e9 c3 ec ff ff 0f 1f 00 89 f6 48 8b 0c 24 ba 01
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e03a0 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff81a5536d RBX: ffff88807e06bc00 RCX: ffff88802bb31e00
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff88807e06c078
RBP: ffff88807e06c078 R08: ffff88802bb31e07 R09: 1ffff110057663c0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10057663c1 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00000000006f6c69 R14: ffffc900001e05c0 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f0529c716c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2fe1fff8 CR3: 0000000076006000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:72 [inline]
 atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline]
 __perf_event_overflow+0x41/0x630 kernel/events/core.c:9445
 perf_swevent_overflow+0x19b/0x230 kernel/events/core.c:9589
 perf_swevent_event+0x458/0x570 kernel/events/core.c:-1
 perf_tp_event+0x36b/0xc10 kernel/events/core.c:10074
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10042
 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:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x7f/0x510 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:685
Code: eb 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 42 c7 44 2b 08 f8 f3 f3 f3 65 44 8b 35 32 7b 95 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 40 <48> c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 42 c7 44 2b 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e0a00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 1e1d4dba1a4f3700 RBX: 1ffff9200003c148 RCX: 1e1d4dba1a4f3700
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c18a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf68a0
RBP: ffffc900001e0b00 R08: ffffffff90b0f307 R09: 1ffffffff2161e60
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2161e61 R12: 0000000000000246
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b8f3bb00 R15: 0000000000000002
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:823 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x3ff/0x710 net/core/dev.c:6062
 __napi_poll+0xbb/0x460 net/core/dev.c:6628
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6695 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x622/0xbc0 net/core/dev.c:6809
 handle_softirqs+0x291/0x910 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __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:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xbc/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f7 44 24 20 00 02 00 00 41 c6 04 07 f8 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> 3f 1a 1c f7 65 8b 05 10 ca c5 75 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000544f1c0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: dffffc0000000004 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: 1e1d4dba1a4f3700
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c18a0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000544f248 R08: ffffffff90b0f307 R09: 1ffffffff2161e60
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2161e61 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff8880543b6000 R14: ffff8880543b61d0 R15: 1ffff92000a89e38
 __netlink_sendskb+0x5b/0x90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1263
 netlink_dump+0x92e/0xcd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2273
 __netlink_dump_start+0x52c/0x6f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2343
 genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0x228/0x3c0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:703
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:830 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x5c8/0x790 net/netlink/genetlink.c:850
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1ef/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2516
 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:861
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7ad/0x920 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ad/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1877
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5ed/0x9a0 net/socket.c:2519
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a2/0x360 net/socket.c:2573
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2602 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2611 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x1c3/0x2b0 net/socket.c:2609
 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: 0033:0x7f0528d9e159
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:00007f0529c71028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0529025fa0 RCX: 00007f0528d9e159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007f0528e3506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0529026038 R14: 00007f0529025fa0 R15: 00007ffe88b91218
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/26 19:55 linux-6.1.y 1a8763b93150 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __netlink_sendskb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.