INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (3)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/24 13:02
Reported-by: syzbot+3c81872f733ce5dfedf7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 170d, last: 170d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (17)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (2) mm 1 2 2398d 2398d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 08:13
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (4) 1 3 193d 257d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/02 02:33
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (5) 1 2 18d 58d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/06/05 22:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (7) fs 1 2 406d 410d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/20 13:58
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (5) fs 1 2 979d 1041d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/25 12:55
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (4) fs 1 1 1370d 1370d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/02/25 08:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (3) fs 1 3 1471d 1545d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/21 16:10
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename 1 1 463d 463d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/04 09:07
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename 1 1 1031d 1031d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/14 17:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (6) fs 1 13 601d 773d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/09 06:53
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (2) 1 1 352d 352d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/23 08:45
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename origin:lts-only 1 syz, C done 2 84d 320d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/16 17:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename mm 1 9 2433d 2435d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:14
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (8) mm prio:low 1 syz 10 163d 159d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/31 08:47
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (2) 1 1 725d 725d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/15 17:39
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename (3) 1 1 536d 536d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/23 15:25
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_rename 1 2 821d 826d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/01 16:15

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6000/1:b..l P4285/1:b..l P4520/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=34129, q=177 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:23472 pid:4520  ppid:3639   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6731
 preempt_schedule+0xbc/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6755
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:34
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x10d/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
 spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:406 [inline]
 __wake_up_common_lock kernel/sched/wait.c:140 [inline]
 __wake_up_sync_key+0x128/0x190 kernel/sched/wait.c:208
 sock_def_readable+0x15b/0x280 net/core/sock.c:3316
 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x1051/0x16e0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2085
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x2d9/0x3e0 net/socket.c:1143
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2265 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x4b1/0xa30 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x14c/0x250 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fc1a62a7407
RSP: 002b:00007ffc78c6bea0 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fc1a6a4a880 RCX: 00007fc1a62a7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffc78c6bf47 RDI: 000000000000000a
RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fc1a6a4a6e8
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00005570abe7a010
 </TASK>
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:22512 pid:4285  ppid:3639   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6874
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:439
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x225/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5666
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 04 f8 0f 85 f0 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 43 c7 44 3d 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003de7700 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 01fcba4bad7bc800
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c23a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf0d20
RBP: ffffc90003de7818 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff215ea48
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff215ea49 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 1ffff920007bceec R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 is_bpf_text_address+0x43/0x2a0 kernel/bpf/core.c:735
 kernel_text_address+0x9c/0xd0 kernel/extable.c:125
 __kernel_text_address+0x9/0x30 kernel/extable.c:79
 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+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1755
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0xf7/0x290 mm/slub.c:3709
 do_renameat2+0xc49/0xce0 fs/namei.c:5060
 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5081 [inline]
 __se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5079 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rename+0x82/0x90 fs/namei.c:5079
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fc1a627acc7
RSP: 002b:00007ffc78c69c08 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005570abe266e0 RCX: 00007fc1a627acc7
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00005570abe266e0 RDI: 00007ffc78c6a0c0
RBP: 00005570abe266fc R08: 00007ffc78c6a0c0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffc78c6a0c0
R13: 00007ffc78c69cc0 R14: 000055709049f6d7 R15: 00007ffc78c6ad50
 </TASK>
task:kworker/u4:18   state:R  running task     stack:22168 pid:6000  ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_nc_worker
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6874
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:439
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x225/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5666
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 04 f8 0f 85 f0 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 43 c7 44 3d 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005297ac0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 38a4f53ab72c2900
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c23a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf0d20
RBP: ffffc90005297bc8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff215ea48
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff215ea49 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 1ffff92000a52f64 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 batadv_nc_purge_orig_hash net/batman-adv/network-coding.c:408 [inline]
 batadv_nc_worker+0xeb/0x600 net/batman-adv/network-coding.c:719
 process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9844 jiffies! g34129 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:27184 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6638
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x303/0x1340 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1905
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:741
sched: RT throttling activated

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/13 13:02 linux-6.1.y 8ce36b2849ef 6a673c50 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_rename
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.