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INFO: rcu detected stall in snapshot_release

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/27 14:45
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:normal
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First crash: 131d, last: 131d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
b4622d3c-6f34-4a3b-a382-542c6c073232 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in snapshot_release 2026/05/16 18:23 2026/05/16 19:07 2026/05/16 19:48 de5aae85e5f28e2fa1c7deefcc24fe286abe5140

			
		

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6249/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=14289, q=2451 ncpus=2)
task:syz.0.63        state:R  running task     stack:26296 pid:6249  tgid:6247  ppid:5831   task_flags:0x40854c flags:0x00080003
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0xfee/0x60e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x50/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 irqentry_exit+0x17b/0x670 kernel/entry/common.c:239
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:on_stack arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:55 [inline]
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0x1565/0x1ea0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:680
Code: c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 cf 03 00 00 49 8d 7d 08 49 8b 5d 38 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 <0f> 85 e1 06 00 00 49 8d 7d 10 49 8b 6d 08 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc
RSP: 0018:ffffc900050b7690 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 00007f5308d18028 RCX: ffffffff916e86e2
RDX: 1ffff92000a16ee1 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffffc900050b7708
RBP: 00007f5307e32bd9 R08: ffffffff916e86e6 R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffc900050b7750
R13: ffffc900050b7700 R14: ffffc900050b7f48 R15: 00000000050b8001
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x162/0x1e0 mm/page_owner.c:165
 __reset_page_owner+0x84/0x190 mm/page_owner.c:320
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x7e1/0x10d0 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
 free_image_page kernel/power/snapshot.c:267 [inline]
 free_zone_bm_rtree kernel/power/snapshot.c:585 [inline]
 memory_bm_free+0x139/0x340 kernel/power/snapshot.c:732
 free_basic_memory_bitmaps+0x6d/0xd0 kernel/power/snapshot.c:1180
 snapshot_release+0x197/0x1f0 kernel/power/user.c:123
 __fput+0x3ff/0xb40 fs/file_table.c:469
 task_work_run+0x150/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x829/0x2aa0 kernel/exit.c:971
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1112
 get_signal+0x1ec7/0x21e0 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x91/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x86/0x4a0 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x668/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f5307d9c799
RSP: 002b:00007f5308d18028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 00007f5308016090 RCX: 00007f5307d9c799
RDX: 0000000000180b03 RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f5307e32bd9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5308016128 R14: 00007f5308016090 R15: 00007ffd1102ad98
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 8290 jiffies! g14289 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:28680 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0xfee/0x60e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6989 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x390 kernel/sched/core.c:7004
 schedule_timeout+0x127/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1a9/0x900 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x179/0x230 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x754/0xd80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x5e/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 05 3b ce 28 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 f0 00 00 00 48 0f a3 05 06 51 f5 0e 0f 82 c2 02 00 00 8b 35 ce 84 f5 0e 85 f6 0f 85 dd 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 dd cd 28 12 0f 85 02 03 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a07ea0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8de547c0 RDI: ffffffff8c1aefa0
RBP: ffffffff8e7e9220 R08: 0000000006fa0785 R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88812444f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f4a81a80bb9 CR3: 0000000047c36000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1193 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xd1/0x1ea0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4501 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4830 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x241/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:4837
 skb_clone+0x190/0x400 net/core/skbuff.c:2120
 deliver_clone net/bridge/br_forward.c:125 [inline]
 br_flood+0x35c/0x650 net/bridge/br_forward.c:250
 br_handle_frame_finish+0xf57/0x1f00 net/bridge/br_input.c:229
 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x30d/0x420 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:1167
 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x769/0xfb0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:154
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x39c/0x8b0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:184
 br_nf_pre_routing+0x93b/0x1510 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:508
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:291 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0xcdd/0x1520 net/bridge/br_input.c:442
 __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x6c5/0x3550 net/core/dev.c:6043
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xb0/0x1e0 net/core/dev.c:6154
 __netif_receive_skb+0x1f/0x120 net/core/dev.c:6269
 process_backlog+0x37a/0x1580 net/core/dev.c:6620
 __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xaf/0x450 net/core/dev.c:7684
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7747 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0xa40/0xf20 net/core/dev.c:7899
 handle_softirqs+0x1eb/0x9e0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xef/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 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:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:63
Code: c8 85 02 c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d e3 aa 1e 00 fb f4 <e9> bc 35 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197df0 EFLAGS: 00000242
RAX: 0000000000c6f123 RBX: ffff88801e6e0000 RCX: ffffffff8b8cdc75
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8de7a829 RDI: ffffffff8c1aefa0
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10170a6795
R10: ffff8880b8533cab R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffed1003cdc000
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffff90d99310 R15: 0000000000000000
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:73 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x35b/0x4b0 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 start_secondary+0x21d/0x2d0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148
 </TASK>
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:6e:8f:20:4f:0a:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:6e:8f:20:4f:0a:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/26 14:41 upstream f4d0ec0aa20d ffa54287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in snapshot_release
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.