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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/16 00:53
Reported-by: syzbot+f63f463d592cf4a93358@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d09h, last: 2d01h
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise (2) 1 1 133d 133d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/17 02:28
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise scsi 1 1 804d 804d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/05 19:10
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise 1 1 475d 475d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/10 08:27
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise (2) mm 1 32 34d 50d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2025/08/31 02:33
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise 1 1 291d 291d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/11 11:19
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_madvise 1 1 574d 574d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/23 02:57
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in sys_madvise 1 1 1263d 1263d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/09/03 05:10
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in sys_madvise (2) 1 1 1129d 1129d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/14 20:18

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P8751/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=37657, q=330 ncpus=2)
task:syz.3.885       state:R  running task     stack:26536 pid:8751  ppid:5792   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:7009
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x410 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f5 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3c 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3c 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3c 0b 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b6473c0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 9e7001b6511ac900
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aaace60 RDI: ffffffff8afc64c0
RBP: ffffc9000b6474c8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff21b4ea0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff21b4ea1 R12: 1ffff920016c8e84
R13: ffffffff8cd2ff20 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 page_ext_get+0x3e/0x2b0 mm/page_ext.c:508
 __reset_page_owner+0x2e/0x190 mm/page_owner.c:145
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
 folio_put_refs include/linux/mm.h:1512 [inline]
 collapse_file mm/khugepaged.c:2166 [inline]
 hpage_collapse_scan_file+0x4b45/0x5b80 mm/khugepaged.c:2301
 madvise_collapse+0x67e/0xde0 mm/khugepaged.c:2743
 madvise_vma_behavior mm/madvise.c:1092 [inline]
 madvise_walk_vmas mm/madvise.c:1266 [inline]
 do_madvise+0x8f1/0x3710 mm/madvise.c:1446
 __do_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:1459 [inline]
 __se_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:1457 [inline]
 __x64_sys_madvise+0xa6/0xc0 mm/madvise.c:1457
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fa6c1b8efc9
RSP: 002b:00007fa6c294a038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000001c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa6c1de6180 RCX: 00007fa6c1b8efc9
RDX: 0000000000000019 RSI: 0000000008000000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007fa6c1c11f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa6c1de6218 R14: 00007fa6c1de6180 R15: 00007ffc36b75d08
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10191 jiffies! g37657 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->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:27656 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6773
 schedule_timeout+0x160/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:2167
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x302/0x1560 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 43 b9 39 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <c3> cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000187de0 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: a3dc63b339bc7200 RBX: ffffffff8161858b RCX: a3dc63b339bc7200
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8aaabce0 RDI: ffffffff8afc64c0
RBP: ffffc90000187f20 R08: ffff8880b8f36b2b R09: 1ffff110171e6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6d66 R12: ffffffff8e4a8568
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 1ffff1100364e780
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2d1b783d58 CR3: 000000000cb30000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:170 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1eb/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:282
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:380
 start_secondary+0xee/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:323
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/18 08:47 linux-6.6.y 0bbbd97a442d 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/10/16 00:52 linux-6.6.y 0bbbd97a442d 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.