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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rt_sigreturn

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/15 21:42
Subsystems: kernel
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First crash: 122d, last: 90d
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0beb4e6d-ee70-47dc-beb5-2bb889fbaa8d repro INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rt_sigreturn 2026/03/07 00:42 2026/03/07 00:42 2026/03/07 00:53 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rt_sigreturn origin:lts-only 1 C error 4 12d 244d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/14 20:21
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rt_sigreturn origin:lts-only 1 syz error 3 92d 212d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/09/16 12:37
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rt_sigreturn missing-backport origin:lts-only 1 C done 168 5d04h 745d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/01 14:20

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5193/2:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=45357, q=755 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:24368 pid:5193  tgid:5193  ppid:1      task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x149b/0x4fd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_common+0x83/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7047
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk.S:12
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x74/0x80 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
 spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:406 [inline]
 unlock_task_sighand include/linux/sched/signal.h:756 [inline]
 do_send_sig_info kernel/signal.c:1270 [inline]
 group_send_sig_info+0x233/0x260 kernel/signal.c:1419
 kill_pid_info_type+0xf8/0x1f0 kernel/signal.c:1459
 kill_pid_info kernel/signal.c:1473 [inline]
 kill_proc_info+0xd9/0x180 kernel/signal.c:1480
 kill_something_info kernel/signal.c:1577 [inline]
 __do_sys_kill kernel/signal.c:3953 [inline]
 __se_sys_kill+0xc4/0x450 kernel/signal.c:3947
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fb61325f357
RSP: 002b:00007ffffa6d6db8 EFLAGS: 00000297 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000003e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffffa6d6dc0 RCX: 00007fb61325f357
RDX: 000055f38480c550 RSI: 000000000000000f RDI: 00000000000025fd
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 000055f3847b78e0
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000297 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000055f345029100 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10517 jiffies! g45357 f0x0 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:27792 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x149b/0x4fd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6960
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </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 UID: 0 PID: 10337 Comm: syz.3.742 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:preempt_count_add+0x13/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:5719
Code: 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 41 57 41 56 53 49 bf 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <48> c7 c0 20 54 8b 99 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 38 84 c0 0f 85 eb 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007bb8 EFLAGS: 00000096
RAX: b338031c9fd1dd00 RBX: ffff8880593e9e80 RCX: ffffffff81870d04
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff8880593e9e80 R08: ffff8880593e9e87 R09: 1ffff1100b27d3d0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100b27d3d1 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff8880306ecc00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f9ef358a6c0(0000) GS:ffff888125e1f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fca75ae8d58 CR3: 000000007b493000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 class_preempt_constructor include/linux/preempt.h:468 [inline]
 try_to_wake_up+0x3c/0x12b0 kernel/sched/core.c:4070
 signal_wake_up_state+0xb5/0x120 kernel/signal.c:734
 posixtimer_send_sigqueue+0x404/0xa70 kernel/signal.c:2080
 posix_timer_queue_signal kernel/time/posix-timers.c:364 [inline]
 posix_timer_fn+0x121/0x1c0 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:379
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1777 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x51c/0xc30 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1841
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x45b/0xaa0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1903
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1045 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x102/0x3e0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa1/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:do_sigaltstack include/linux/sched/signal.h:-1 [inline]
RIP: 0010:restore_altstack+0x1f8/0x4b0 kernel/signal.c:4463
Code: 89 df 4c 89 fe e8 e8 8e 38 00 4c 39 fb 0f 86 72 02 00 00 e8 7a 8c 38 00 eb 0c e8 73 8c 38 00 eb 09 e8 6c 8c 38 00 4c 8b 3c 24 <44> 8b 6c 24 0c 41 81 e5 ff ff ff 7f bf 03 00 00 00 44 89 ee e8 8f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005327ba0 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81886c36 RBX: 00007f9ef3589b40 RCX: ffff8880593e9e80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007f9ef3589b40
RBP: ffffc90005327c90 R08: ffffc90005327c17 R09: 1ffff92000a64f82
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000a64f83 R12: 1ffff92000a64f7c
R13: ffff8880593ea828 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffff8880593e9e80
 __ia32_sys_rt_sigreturn+0x281/0x860 arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c:265
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f9ef272b829
Code: 64 c7 00 16 00 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 0f 1f 40 00 90 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 c7 c0 0f 00 00 00 0f 05 <0f> 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 81 ec 48 01 00 00 49 89 d0 64 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 002b:00007f9ef3589b40 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000000f
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9ef29e6098 RCX: 00007f9ef272b829
RDX: 00007f9ef3589b40 RSI: 00007f9ef3589c70 RDI: 0000000000000021
RBP: 00007f9ef29e6090 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9ef29e6128 R14: 00007ffd0e6a6570 R15: 00007ffd0e6a6658
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/15 21:34 upstream 944aacb68baf d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rt_sigreturn
2025/12/14 18:05 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rt_sigreturn
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.