INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/31 12:04
Reported-by: syzbot+76f384824ecd33f5ce6d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 218d, last: 218d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink (6) prio:high fs mm 1 C error inconclusive 6 79d 273d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/27 21:18
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink origin:lts-only 1 C inconclusive 2 169d 184d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/24 22:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink (3) mm 1 4 2392d 2392d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 08:13
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink (2) cgroups mm 1 2 2393d 2393d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/08 05:23
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink 1 1 393d 393d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/07 08:06
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink mm 1 17 2428d 2429d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:14
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink (4) bpf 1 11 1656d 1760d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 09:50
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink (2) 1 1 74d 74d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/05/15 06:02
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink (5) mm fs 1 syz inconclusive done 6 605d 655d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/02/03 10:48

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5361/1:b..l P4473/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=12881, q=66)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:23232 pid: 4473 ppid:  3560 flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6799
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:432
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5627
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f6 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3d 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 0b
RSP: 0018:ffffc900039cf7e0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 3a87a6743bb31500
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b2e80 RDI: ffffffff8a59e800
RBP: ffffc900039cf900 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff5419
R10: fffffbfff1ff5419 R11: 1ffffffff1ff5418 R12: ffffffff8c11c720
R13: 1ffff92000739f08 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:313
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:740 [inline]
 is_bpf_text_address+0x1d/0x270 kernel/bpf/core.c:725
 kernel_text_address kernel/extable.c:151 [inline]
 __kernel_text_address+0x9a/0x100 kernel/extable.c:105
 unwind_get_return_address+0x49/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:323
 arch_stack_walk+0xf2/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 stack_trace_save+0x98/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmemdup+0x22/0x50 mm/util.c:128
 shmem_symlink+0x155/0x6c0 mm/shmem.c:3096
 vfs_symlink+0x247/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:4437
 do_symlinkat+0x1be/0x6c0 fs/namei.c:4466
 __do_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4488 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4486 [inline]
 __x64_sys_symlink+0x7a/0x90 fs/namei.c:4486
 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: 0033:0x7fad90b66527
RSP: 002b:00007ffdff5eeeb8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000058
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000564b133785b0 RCX: 00007fad90b66527
RDX: fffffffffffffe68 RSI: 00007ffdff5eeec0 RDI: 0000564b1336d5c0
RBP: 00000000000001c6 R08: 0000000000000064 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffdff5eeec0
R13: 0000564b1335d410 R14: 0000000000000008 R15: 0000564b133785b0
 </TASK>
task:syz.4.256       state:R  running task     stack:25440 pid: 5361 ppid:  4189 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6571
 preempt_schedule+0xa7/0xb0 kernel/sched/core.c:6596
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:34
 __raw_spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock+0x36/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186
 spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:404 [inline]
 filemap_map_pages+0x1031/0x1390 mm/filemap.c:3353
 do_fault_around mm/memory.c:4243 [inline]
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:4258 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4392 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4650 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:4785 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x257d/0x43b0 mm/memory.c:4883
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:976 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x93e/0x11c0 mm/gup.c:1197
 populate_vma_page_range+0x213/0x290 mm/gup.c:1529
 __mm_populate+0x26f/0x3a0 mm/gup.c:1638
 mm_populate include/linux/mm.h:2646 [inline]
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x203/0x2b0 mm/util.c:556
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x140/0x780 mm/mmap.c:1635
 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: 0033:0x7f2e34875749
RSP: 002b:00007f2e32adc038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2e34acbfa0 RCX: 00007f2e34875749
RDX: b635773f06ebbeee RSI: 0000000000b36000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f2e348f9f91 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008031 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2e34acc038 R14: 00007f2e34acbfa0 R15: 00007ffe13e863a8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10563 jiffies! g12881 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:28064 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x29e/0x11b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x98/0x350 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 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:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x397/0x3d0 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_check_gp_kthread_starvation+0x1cd/0x250 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:487
 print_other_cpu_stall+0x10c8/0x1220 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x831/0x1110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 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+0x4fe/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 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:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:730
Code: bf 48 89 df e8 c6 03 11 f8 eb b5 e8 ef b5 f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 66 90 0f 00 2d 17 93 5a 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000d67d48 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 22d7ad4fe5382c00 RBX: ffff88813fe38000 RCX: 22d7ad4fe5382c00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1be0 RDI: ffffffff8a59e800
RBP: ffffc90000d67e80 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017227662
R10: ffffed1017227662 R11: 1ffff11017227661 R12: ffffffff8d6935a8
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 1ffff11027fc7000
 default_idle_call+0x81/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:112
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:194 [inline]
 do_idle+0x21b/0x5b0 kernel/sched/idle.c:306
 cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:403
 start_secondary+0x31f/0x430 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:281
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb1/0xbb
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/21 12:04 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_symlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.