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INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/06 18:18
Reported-by: syzbot+f80e255c3d4ba8ded1e0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 12d, last: 12d
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame (5) bridge 1 syz 24 343d 371d 28/29 fixed on 2024/11/12 23:31
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame (3) 1 1 1844d 1844d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/01/28 07:46
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame 1 C done 341 2224d 2230d 13/29 fixed on 2019/10/09 10:54
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame (2) net 1 C done 2 2129d 2125d 15/29 fixed on 2020/02/18 14:31
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame (3) bridge 1 1 1554d 1554d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/10/15 13:41
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame (2) 1 C done 1 2129d 2129d 1/1 fixed on 2020/01/19 15:05
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame 1 C done 15 2222d 2233d 1/1 fixed on 2019/12/07 19:24
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame (2) 1 C error 31 989d 1830d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/10/14 18:56
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame 1 C done 41 2221d 2234d 1/1 fixed on 2019/12/07 19:18
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame origin:lts-only 1 C inconclusive 2 184d 618d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/02/08 13:52
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame 1 2 417d 500d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/04 21:21
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame (4) kernel 1 1 1393d 1393d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:10
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in br_handle_frame 1 2 426d 432d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/16 05:31

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0-.... } 2657 jiffies s: 23877 root: 0x1/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 8444 Comm: syz.3.1361 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
RIP: 0010:rdtsc_ordered arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:215 [inline]
RIP: 0010:read_tsc+0x3/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c:1095
Code: 38 c1 0f 8c fd fe ff ff 4c 89 ff e8 37 7d a2 00 e9 f0 fe ff ff e8 cd 13 e9 08 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 0f 01 f9 <66> 90 48 c1 e2 20 48 09 d0 c3 0f 1f 00 48 c7 c0 4c 37 1f 8e 48 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000060e8 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 000000007276476a RBX: ffffffff8c9645c0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 00000000000000be RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8c9645c0
RBP: 0000000000000019 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1c3ecb6
R10: fffffbfff1c3ecb6 R11: 1ffffffff1c3ecb5 R12: ffff8880b8e2a5d0
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 00000000000110ec R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007fe63aa4c6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f32a53f5f98 CR3: 00000000603c6000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 tk_clock_read kernel/time/timekeeping.c:195 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_delta kernel/time/timekeeping.c:255 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:388 [inline]
 ktime_get_update_offsets_now+0xf8/0x3e0 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2320
 hrtimer_update_base kernel/time/hrtimer.c:659 [inline]
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x130/0x9c0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1855
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1107 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x153/0x5a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1124
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 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+0xa5/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: 74 05 e8 8e 80 65 f7 48 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f6 44 24 21 02 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> 96 0b 36 f7 65 8b 05 97 c4 e0 75 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006380 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 5cbbe516a2b5cf00 RBX: 0000000000000a02 RCX: 5cbbe516a2b5cf00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c0500 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc90000006408 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff215c44f
R10: fffffbfff215c44f R11: 1ffffffff215c44e R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88805c97e640 R14: ffff8880b8e3bdd0 R15: 1ffff92000000c70
 spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:406 [inline]
 rps_unlock_irq_restore net/core/dev.c:241 [inline]
 enqueue_to_backlog+0x95d/0xd30 net/core/dev.c:4772
 netif_rx_internal+0x131/0x560 net/core/dev.c:5046
 __netif_rx+0x74/0xb0 net/core/dev.c:5066
 veth_forward_skb drivers/net/veth.c:290 [inline]
 veth_xmit+0x650/0xb00 drivers/net/veth.c:343
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4896 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4910 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3670 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x262/0x870 net/core/dev.c:3686
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1bf1/0x3760 net/core/dev.c:4346
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3051 [inline]
 br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x6a2/0x850 net/bridge/br_forward.c:53
 NF_HOOK+0x5f7/0x680 include/linux/netfilter.h:302
 br_nf_post_routing+0xa0d/0xe40 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:977
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:142 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xb9/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:614
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:257 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x20f/0x3d0 include/linux/netfilter.h:300
 br_forward_finish+0xcf/0x120 net/bridge/br_forward.c:66
 br_nf_hook_thresh net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:-1 [inline]
 br_nf_forward_finish+0x96a/0xee0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:684
 NF_HOOK+0x5f7/0x680 include/linux/netfilter.h:302
 br_nf_forward_ip+0xc7d/0x1140 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:754
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:142 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xb9/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:614
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:257 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x20f/0x3d0 include/linux/netfilter.h:300
 __br_forward+0x41f/0x600 net/bridge/br_forward.c:115
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x12bf/0x1710 net/bridge/br_input.c:198
 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x3b2/0x480 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:1184
 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x9e1/0xda0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:-1
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:302 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x349/0x670 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:243
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:142 [inline]
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:260 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x919/0x12f0 net/bridge/br_input.c:406
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xfc5/0x3840 net/core/dev.c:5475
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5579 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0x74/0x290 net/core/dev.c:5695
 process_backlog+0x37c/0x6e0 net/core/dev.c:6023
 __napi_poll+0xc0/0x460 net/core/dev.c:6590
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6657 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x5b1/0xad0 net/core/dev.c:6771
 handle_softirqs+0x2a1/0x920 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 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:schedule_debug kernel/sched/core.c:5802 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__schedule+0x14d/0x40b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6454
Code: f7 48 8b 1b 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 80 3c 08 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 da 0b b1 f7 48 81 3b 9d 6e ac 57 <0f> 85 4f 12 00 00 45 85 ff 75 56 49 8d 5c 24 18 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ae7ae0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 1ffff9200075c000 RBX: ffffc90003ae0000 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90003ae7c10
RBP: ffffc90003ae7c70 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffc90003ae7c00
R10: fffff5200075cf82 R11: 1ffff9200075cf80 R12: ffff88802f039dc0
R13: ffff8880b8e00000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
 preempt_schedule_notrace+0xca/0x110 kernel/sched/core.c:6823
 preempt_schedule_notrace_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:35
 trace_lock_release include/trace/events/lock.h:69 [inline]
 lock_release+0x8af/0x910 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5673
 __sys_socketpair+0xaa/0x540 net/socket.c:1720
 __do_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1786 [inline]
 __se_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1783 [inline]
 __x64_sys_socketpair+0x97/0xb0 net/socket.c:1783
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fe639b8eec9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fe63aa4c038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000035
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe639de5fa0 RCX: 00007fe639b8eec9
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000803 RDI: 000000000000001d
RBP: 00007fe639c11f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000200000000040 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe639de6038 R14: 00007fe639de5fa0 R15: 00007ffec7b347f8
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/06 18:17 linux-6.1.y 882efbdd9d34 91305dbe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in br_handle_frame
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.