INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/23 13:35
Reported-by: syzbot+e51b463bd916f2ba7b55@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 345d, last: 5d02h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (7)
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 655d 730d 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 607d 607d 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 322d 346d 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 (2) 1 3 44d 124d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/02 11:58
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 1 226d 226d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/01 00:03
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2) 1 8 49d 220d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/03/28 18:58
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2) prio:normal mm 1 34 38d 67d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2026/10/06 02:14

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=190461, q=113)
rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 10502 (4295105734-4295095232), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x0
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g190461 f0x2 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=0
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:27376 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 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 14457 Comm: syz.9.9294 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/07/2026
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x1b2/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:-1
Code: 01 f3 49 89 df 49 8d 5f 07 4d 85 ff 49 0f 49 df 48 83 e3 f8 49 29 df 74 0e 41 80 3b 00 75 69 49 ff c3 49 ff cf 75 f2 5b 41 5c <41> 5e 41 5f 5d c3 45 84 ff 0f 85 91 00 00 00 41 f7 c7 00 ff 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000076a0 EFLAGS: 00000056
RAX: 0000000000000101 RBX: 1ffff92000000edc RCX: ffffffff8165752e
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88805a119dc0
RBP: ffffc900000077a0 R08: ffff88805a119dc7 R09: 1ffff1100b4233b8
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100b4233b9 R12: ffffffff8d123400
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 1ffff1100b4233b8 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f04691876c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000012000 CR3: 0000000063f48000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000200000000300
DR3: 0000200000000300 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 instrument_atomic_write include/linux/instrumented.h:86 [inline]
 set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:28 [inline]
 set_ti_thread_flag include/linux/thread_info.h:89 [inline]
 set_tsk_thread_flag include/linux/sched.h:1983 [inline]
 set_tsk_need_resched include/linux/sched.h:2014 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock_special+0x25e/0x4a0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:659
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY include/linux/bpf.h:1446 [inline]
 trace_call_bpf+0x4f9/0x5b0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:127
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0x79/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10026
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2aa/0x360 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x7f/0x4a0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
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 82 fc 9c 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 40 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 42 c7 44 2b 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007b00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 5d812669d0845600 RBX: 1ffff92000000f64 RCX: 5d812669d0845600
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2b60 RDI: ffffffff8a7a4bc0
RBP: ffffc90000007bd8 R08: ffffffff910460c7 R09: 1ffffffff2208c18
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2208c19 R12: ffffffff8d123400
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x132/0x140 net/mac80211/util.c:831
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0x9b/0x180 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1865
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4ea/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x176/0x240 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1766
 handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 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:memset_erms+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S:65
Code: 03 40 0f b6 f6 48 b8 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 48 0f af c6 f3 48 ab 89 d1 f3 aa 4c 89 c8 c3 90 49 89 f9 40 88 f0 48 89 d1 f3 aa <4c> 89 c8 c3 90 49 89 fa 40 0f b6 ce 48 b8 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000344f468 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc9000344f508 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc9000344f568
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffc9000344f567 R09: ffffc9000344f558
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000689ead R12: 1ffffffff1ebc196
R13: 1ffffffff1ebc196 R14: ffffc9000344f53d R15: ffffffff8f5e0cb2
 unwind_next_frame+0x9e3/0x1cf0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:547
 arch_stack_walk+0x10c/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x8f/0x210 mm/slub.c:3520
 adjust_va_to_fit_type mm/vmalloc.c:1343 [inline]
 __alloc_vmap_area mm/vmalloc.c:1459 [inline]
 alloc_vmap_area+0x157f/0x1b30 mm/vmalloc.c:1550
 __get_vm_area_node+0x14f/0x2d0 mm/vmalloc.c:2430
 __vmalloc_node_range+0xef/0x8b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3027
 __vmalloc_node mm/vmalloc.c:3087 [inline]
 __vmalloc+0x76/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3101
 bpf_prog_alloc_no_stats+0x36/0x2c0 kernel/bpf/core.c:90
 bpf_prog_alloc+0x1a/0x1e0 kernel/bpf/core.c:124
 __get_filter+0xf2/0x400 net/core/filter.c:1504
 sk_attach_filter+0x20/0x140 net/core/filter.c:1539
 tun_attach_filter+0x170/0x270 drivers/net/tun.c:2908
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x1863/0x1f30 drivers/net/tun.c:3300
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 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: 0033:0x7f046af30559
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:00007f0469187028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f046b1b6fa0 RCX: 00007f046af30559
RDX: 0000200000000e00 RSI: 00000000401054d5 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f046afc7b20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f046b1b7038 R14: 00007f046b1b6fa0 R15: 00007ffdfc29a1f8
 </TASK>

Crashes (28):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/30 05:56 linux-5.15.y 792fbe1537d8 b498adee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/10/28 09:19 linux-5.15.y 792fbe1537d8 96923c60 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/10/26 03:39 linux-5.15.y 792fbe1537d8 1d9ca40b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/10/21 19:41 linux-5.15.y 792fbe1537d8 61c200c7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/10/07 03:05 linux-5.15.y a051a4bf909f f7710056 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/10/04 13:39 linux-5.15.y a051a4bf909f 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/10/04 05:36 linux-5.15.y a051a4bf909f 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/09/29 16:59 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 7bf4ea23 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/09/24 08:40 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 0281b448 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/09/17 22:20 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 8d7d05f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/09/10 05:38 linux-5.15.y 0996e0926f6b 4e8b1cc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/09/01 06:45 linux-5.15.y 28c35638ec51 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/08/04 01:42 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 9451e17e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/07/28 15:57 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 edc8a875 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/07/21 18:03 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 7c5de9c3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/07/15 04:09 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/07/03 16:18 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 58bf2096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/06/08 02:32 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/04/28 13:56 linux-5.15.y b9d57c40a767 ce741359 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/03/31 01:41 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b d0af506e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/03/04 06:20 linux-5.15.y 3330a8d33e08 4180d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/02/27 03:15 linux-5.15.y 3330a8d33e08 a2f13f71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/02/11 19:24 linux-5.15.y e45d5d41c134 75707236 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/01/14 18:27 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/01/08 05:24 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2026/01/03 01:26 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2025/12/30 15:16 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2025/11/23 13:35 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.