INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/03/27 03:03
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+adf8ed0e3c4682852da1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 671d, last: 7d17h
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fa30f5e8 repro-c 💥 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7) 2026/08/05 17:32 2026/08/06 20:30 2026/08/07 02:10 c38879ea
17fc2c9a assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7) 2026/05/19 00:28 2026/05/19 00:28 2026/05/19 01:17 9f74d399
93540eac repro INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7) 2026/03/08 14:25 2026/03/08 14:25 2026/03/08 14:36 31e9c887
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Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (2) kernel 1 14 1686d 1993d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (3) kernel 1 7 1507d 1606d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/31 19:01
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone bpf 1 2 2122d 2131d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/02/24 09:47
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __do_sys_clone mm 1 1 2199d 2199d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/11/09 15:43

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5616/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=30525, q=1817 ncpus=1)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:23512 pid:5616  tgid:5616  ppid:5596   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5526 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1259/0x6920 kernel/sched/core.c:7276
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4e/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7598
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_preempt include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:468 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x205/0xa10 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x19e/0x310 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5968
Code: ff 65 0f c1 05 5b 37 a5 12 83 f8 01 0f 85 27 01 00 00 9c 58 f6 c4 02 0f 85 12 01 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 0f 85 c8 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 10 65 48 2b 05 5d f0 a4 12 0f 85 4d 01 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c17618 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: ffffffff8edec420 RCX: ffffc90003c17624
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e3c7f04 RDI: ffffffff8c622980
RBP: ffffffff828bc2ff R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88807882cb00
R13: 0000000000000008 R14: 0000000000000202 R15: 0000000000000005
 rcu_lock_release include/linux/rcupdate.h:319 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:880 [inline]
 __page_table_check_zero+0x284/0x410 mm/page_table_check.c:145
 page_table_check_free include/linux/page_table_check.h:46 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1419 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x790/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x269/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:5010
 vm_area_dup+0x27/0x9d0 mm/vma_init.c:128
 dup_mmap+0x72d/0x2370 mm/mmap.c:1763
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1543 [inline]
 copy_mm kernel/fork.c:1595 [inline]
 copy_process+0x4811/0x8370 kernel/fork.c:2307
 kernel_clone+0x176/0x9d0 kernel/fork.c:2766
 __do_sys_clone+0xd9/0x120 kernel/fork.c:2908
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7feef15c6bd2
RSP: 002b:00007ffc881a9ac0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc881a9ac0 RCX: 00007feef15c6bd2
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
RBP: 00007ffc881a9c4c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 000055558d9627d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00000000000927c0 R14: 000000000001c513 R15: 00007ffc881a9ca0
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 4202 jiffies! g30525 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=R ->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:27560 pid:17    tgid:17    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5526 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1259/0x6920 kernel/sched/core.c:7276
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7353 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x2c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7368
 schedule_timeout+0x127/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1a9/0x8f0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2122
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x17a/0x220 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2330
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 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: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3222 Comm: kworker/R-bat_e Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/05/2026
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_tt_purge
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x5e/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5947
Code: 05 8f f7 a4 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 da 00 00 00 48 0f a3 05 9e d9 5d 0f 0f 82 c9 02 00 00 8b 35 3e 0b 5e 0f 85 f6 0f 85 c7 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 2d f7 a4 12 0f 85 09 03 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007088 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000200
RDX: 0000000000000101 RSI: ffffffff8e3c7f04 RDI: ffffffff8c622980
RBP: ffffffff8edec420 R08: 000000007938eb5a R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888123b5c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f46b2d47134 CR3: 0000000059c73000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:309 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:849 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1216 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xd1/0x2090 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
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
 kfree+0x22b/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6792
 skb_kfree_head net/core/skbuff.c:1083 [inline]
 skb_free_head+0xb9/0x160 net/core/skbuff.c:1095
 skb_release_data+0x6c5/0x8e0 net/core/skbuff.c:1122
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1197 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1211 [inline]
 consume_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1448 [inline]
 consume_skb+0xc4/0x110 net/core/skbuff.c:1442
 nft_synproxy_eval_v4 net/netfilter/nft_synproxy.c:60 [inline]
 nft_synproxy_do_eval+0xa24/0xce0 net/netfilter/nft_synproxy.c:141
 expr_call_ops_eval net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:237 [inline]
 nft_do_chain+0x2e5/0x19d0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:285
 nft_do_chain_inet+0xf3/0x400 net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:162
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:165 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xbf/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:619
 nf_hook.constprop.0+0x2a6/0x750 include/linux/netfilter.h:280
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:323 [inline]
 ip_local_deliver+0x163/0x1f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:262
 dst_input include/net/dst.h:480 [inline]
 ip_rcv_finish net/ipv4/ip_input.c:492 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:325 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:319 [inline]
 ip_rcv+0x33a/0x3c0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:612
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x197/0x1e0 net/core/dev.c:6264
 __netif_receive_skb+0x1f/0x120 net/core/dev.c:6377
 process_backlog+0x487/0x1600 net/core/dev.c:6728
 __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xaf/0x450 net/core/dev.c:7787
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7850 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0xa40/0xf20 net/core/dev.c:8007
 handle_softirqs+0x1e6/0x9d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
 do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:546 [inline]
 do_softirq+0xaf/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:533
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xff/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:473
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:407 [inline]
 batadv_tt_local_purge+0x21c/0x3d0 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:1402
 batadv_tt_purge+0x8b/0xbd0 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:3753
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline]
 rescuer_thread+0x918/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3703
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (131):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/10 23:17 upstream 08df884136f1 1fe56c0a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/30 06:05 upstream 08dbfad3f504 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/25 21:14 upstream 66498c75b4f8 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/16 17:15 upstream 3eb40771c00a 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/07 01:27 upstream 0d8395707651 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/06 10:46 upstream 0d8395707651 cc56899a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/04 10:29 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/03 11:08 upstream 075b74841bd0 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/01 12:00 upstream 02dc699f83d0 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/31 20:59 upstream 8ba098e6b6ff db462e94 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/31 10:41 upstream 3708dd948844 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/21 07:54 upstream b95f03f04d47 de6a700d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/19 23:17 upstream c6859eed755d 72524a66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/17 05:07 upstream fce2dfa773ce 8f30cfd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/14 14:24 upstream 3b029c035b34 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/14 06:23 upstream 0f26556c5eee 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/13 18:13 upstream a13c140cc289 a870962e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/11 14:14 upstream d96fcfe1b7f9 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/05 20:25 upstream f105f3631d51 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/04 18:31 upstream 1e9cdc2ea15a fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/01 00:30 upstream dc59e4fea9d8 00e8b0fd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/29 01:44 upstream 8b69c0475871 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/26 16:45 upstream 4edcdefd4083 7ff32d8b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/07 18:57 upstream 979c294509f9 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/06 18:03 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/05 06:15 upstream 9154c4af7829 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/03 10:35 upstream ba3e43a9e601 3c0d2131 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/05/15 19:42 upstream 70eda68668d1 9cd3beaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/05/08 21:00 upstream 81d6f7807536 0c5a8d8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/27 15:53 upstream 254f49634ee1 0f700595 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/27 04:34 upstream 20b64cf8705a 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/12 09:28 upstream e753c16cb3dd 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/07 22:27 upstream 3036cd0d3328 2c961e87 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/04 03:44 upstream 631919fb12fe 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/27 01:02 upstream 0138af2472df 4b3d9a38 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/23 09:01 upstream c369299895a5 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/20 12:34 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/19 15:39 upstream 8a30aeb0d1b4 bd6dcb30 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/19 11:04 upstream 8a30aeb0d1b4 bd6dcb30 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/17 07:43 upstream 2d1373e4246d c01bca74 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/05 11:56 upstream c107785c7e8d d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/04 18:27 upstream ecc64d2dc9ff e6b6b96b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/01 07:57 upstream eb71ab2bf722 43249bac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/02/26 21:07 upstream f4d0ec0aa20d ffa54287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/02/26 17:34 upstream f4d0ec0aa20d ffa54287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/02/23 08:58 upstream 6de23f81a5e0 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2025/03/26 17:28 upstream 2df0c02dab82 89d30d73 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2025/03/23 02:43 upstream 183601b78a9b c6512ef7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2025/03/16 20:51 upstream d1275e99d1c4 e2826670 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2025/01/05 03:02 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing f1a2241778d9 f3558dbf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.