INFO: rcu detected stall in __vm_enough_memory

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/10/27 09:42
Reported-by: syzbot+101413f7580ebfee0f26@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 18h49m, last: 18h49m
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __vm_enough_memory mm 1 1 700d 700d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/24 18:25

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1-.... } 2633 jiffies s: 220093 root: 0x2/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 6439 Comm: modprobe Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/07/2026
RIP: 0010:asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x0/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:722
Code: e9 b5 03 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 0f 01 ca fc 6a ff e8 b5 02 00 00 48 89 c4 48 89 e7 e8 2a b8 da ff e9 95 03 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 <0f> 01 ca fc 6a ff e8 95 02 00 00 48 89 c4 48 89 e7 e8 fa bc da ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e0578 EFLAGS: 00000006
RAX: d05d180d7f652000 RBX: 1ffff9200003c0bc RCX: d05d180d7f652000
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aac19a0 RDI: ffffffff8aff71e0
RBP: ffffc900001e0690 R08: ffffffff91b70277 R09: 1ffffffff236e04e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff236e04f R12: 0000000000000246
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b8d3bb00 R15: 0000000000000002
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa770c256c8 CR3: 0000000055105000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000200000000e80 DR1: 0000200000000300 DR2: 0000200000000300
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x7f/0x510 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:685
Code: eb 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 42 c7 44 2b 08 f8 f3 f3 f3 65 44 8b 35 d2 68 95 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 40 <48> c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 42 c7 44 2b 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e05a0 EFLAGS: 00000206
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:823 [inline]
 is_bpf_text_address+0x27a/0x2a0 kernel/bpf/core.c:738
 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+0x27/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 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+0x133/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1755
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0xf7/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:3709
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x9a3/0x1740 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2557
 handle_softirqs+0x291/0x910 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 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:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:178 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x13/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:212
Code: 48 8b 3d a0 9b a0 0d 48 89 de 5b e9 a7 91 50 00 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 48 8b 04 24 65 48 8b 0d b4 28 80 7e 65 8b 15 b5 28 80 7e <81> e2 00 01 ff 00 74 11 81 fa 00 01 00 00 75 35 83 b9 1c 16 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005717ae0 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81b90441 RBX: 000000000000000d RCX: ffff88801a3fda00
RDX: 0000000080000000 RSI: 000000000000000d RDI: ffff888030aa1680
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff88801a3fda00 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff92000ae2f78 R14: ffff888030aa1680 R15: 0000000000000002
 __vm_enough_memory+0x21/0x370 mm/util.c:991
 __mmap_region mm/mmap.c:2706 [inline]
 mmap_region+0x951/0x1c50 mm/mmap.c:2916
 do_mmap+0x9ce/0x10d0 mm/mmap.c:1436
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x1c1/0x2d0 mm/util.c:520
 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: 0033:0x7fa770d19242
Code: 08 00 04 00 00 eb e2 90 41 f7 c1 ff 0f 00 00 75 27 55 89 cd 53 48 89 fb 48 85 ff 74 33 41 89 ea 48 89 df b8 09 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5e 5b 5d c3 0f 1f 00 c7 05 46 40 01 00 16 00
RSP: 002b:00007ffd483fb828 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa770c26000 RCX: 00007fa770d19242
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 000000000000ce98 RDI: 00007fa770c26000
RBP: 0000000000000032 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000032 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffd483fb8e8
R13: 00007fa770cf55f0 R14: 00007ffd483fc060 R15: 00007fa770c26000
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/27 09:41 linux-6.1.y 79807e970724 168cb7a2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __vm_enough_memory
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.