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INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_periodic_work (4)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/31 09:55
Subsystems: net
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First crash: 266d, last: 266d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_periodic_work (5) net 1 syz error 1 25d 21d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/01/02 09:02
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_periodic_work (2) net 1 C error 2 684d 856d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2024/03/13 18:06
upstream BUG: soft lockup in neigh_periodic_work net 1 2 387d 419d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/01/28 16:26
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_periodic_work (3) net 1 2 622d 641d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/09 21:19
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_periodic_work net 1 1 1051d 1051d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/07 17:40
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_periodic_work origin:upstream 1 syz error 1 38d 233d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/06/04 08:32

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (2 ticks this GP) idle=7c14/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=38498/38498 fqs=0
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=28497, q=288 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5892 Comm: kworker/1:6 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc4-syzkaller-00147-gebd297a2affa #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/19/2025
Workqueue: events_power_efficient neigh_periodic_work
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x66/0x70 kernel/kcov.c:235
Code: 82 18 16 00 00 83 f8 02 75 20 48 8b 8a 20 16 00 00 8b 92 1c 16 00 00 48 8b 01 48 83 c0 01 48 39 d0 73 07 48 89 01 48 89 34 c1 <c3> cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 44 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a08d60 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000010201 RBX: ffff8880798da000 RCX: ffffffff89814767
RDX: ffff88802be7a440 RSI: ffffffff894743e2 RDI: ffff8880798da000
RBP: ffff8880341db000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000068203a2400
R13: 00000068203a2400 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffff88807ab17c10
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124ae2000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000021000 CR3: 000000005f49e000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __netif_schedule+0x12/0x2f0 net/core/dev.c:3325
 advance_sched+0x6c1/0xc80 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:986
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1761 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1ff/0xad0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1825
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x397/0x8e0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1887
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1038 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x108/0x3f0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1055
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9f/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x62/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5870
Code: ce 0b 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 bc 02 00 00 89 c0 48 0f a3 05 42 ea ec 0e 0f 82 74 02 00 00 8b 35 da 19 ed 0e 85 f6 0f 85 8d 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 19 ce 0b 12 0f 85 c7 02 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc900031df7b0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: ffffffff8e3bf5c0 RCX: 00000000814f980d
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8dbbb25f RDI: ffffffff8bf47e20
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 78f98cfff0409c3e R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1155 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xd1/0x20a0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:479
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0x100 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 ref_tracker_free+0x10e/0x830 lib/ref_tracker.c:239
 netdev_tracker_free include/linux/netdevice.h:4351 [inline]
 netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4368 [inline]
 netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4364 [inline]
 neigh_destroy+0x339/0x630 net/core/neighbour.c:868
 neigh_release include/net/neighbour.h:442 [inline]
 neigh_cleanup_and_release net/core/neighbour.c:121 [inline]
 neigh_periodic_work+0x744/0xcd0 net/core/neighbour.c:957
 process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10501 jiffies! g28497 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=1 timer-softirq=22238
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g28497 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:27192 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x116f/0x5de0 kernel/sched/core.c:6767
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6845 [inline]
 schedule+0xe7/0x3a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6860
 schedule_timeout+0x123/0x290 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1ea/0xb00 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2046
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x270/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2248
 kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/05/02 09:45 upstream ebd297a2affa 51b137cd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_periodic_work
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.