INFO: rcu detected stall in gate_timer_func

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/23 13:40
Reported-by: syzbot+f638e9d5162b099f5761@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 29d, last: 12d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream BUG: soft lockup in gate_timer_func prio:normal kernel 1 syz, C 4 28d 35d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/17 16:04

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	1-....: (10504 ticks this GP) idle=d39/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=97749/97758 fqs=4822 
	(t=10500 jiffies g=139241 q=2508)
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x22d/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:349
 print_cpu_stall+0x31f/0x5f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:633
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:727 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x6ec/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4b0/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 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:seqcount_lockdep_reader_access+0x196/0x1d0 include/linux/seqlock.h:106
Code: 00 4d 85 e4 75 16 e8 b9 07 10 00 eb 15 e8 b2 07 10 00 e8 3d 6c 57 08 4d 85 e4 74 ea e8 a3 07 10 00 fb 48 c7 04 24 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3e 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3e 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000da79e0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff816907fd RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff8880179d0000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90000da7a88 R08: ffffffff901ef2cf R09: 1ffffffff203de59
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203de5a R12: 0000000000000200
R13: 1bc16fcb6ad4c13c R14: 1ffff920001b4f3c R15: dffffc0000000000
 timekeeping_get_delta kernel/time/timekeeping.c:254 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:388 [inline]
 ktime_get+0x7b/0x270 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:831
 gate_get_time net/sched/act_gate.c:22 [inline]
 gate_timer_func+0x179/0x360 net/sched/act_gate.c:95
 __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
 run_ksoftirqd+0xa4/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:943
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x520/0x990 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
vkms_vblank_simulate: vblank timer overrun

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/09 17:17 linux-5.15.y 0996e0926f6b 4e8b1cc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in gate_timer_func
2026/09/09 04:17 linux-5.15.y 0996e0926f6b 8387c273 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in gate_timer_func
2026/08/23 13:40 linux-5.15.y 945fa863f02c 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in gate_timer_func
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.