INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/27 00:13
Reported-by: syzbot+d7f46aad18b591359f77@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 354d, last: 354d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (17)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir 1 1 588d 588d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/06 10:37
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (3) 1 1 37d 37d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/02 03:34
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir 1 1 522d 522d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/11 20:27
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (2) origin:lts-only 1 syz, C inconclusive 2 45d 229d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/22 06:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (3) cgroups 1 1 2404d 2404d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/08 05:33
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (3) 1 1 153d 153d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/16 08:45
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (7) ext4 1 1 1079d 1079d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/24 07:40
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (2) 1 1 323d 323d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/28 08:27
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir mm 1 2 2572d 2573d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/25 14:21
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (2) cgroups 1 5 2438d 2440d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (6) ext4 1 2 1650d 1659d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 09:50
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (4) mm 1 2 2403d 2403d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 08:13
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (9) prio:high mm 1 syz done error 7 7d04h 560d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/01/25 04:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (8) fs 1 1 678d 678d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/28 09:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (5) tomoyo 1 1 1786d 1786d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/12/15 23:48
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir (2) 1 1 246d 246d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/14 17:07
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_mkdir 1 2 812d 817d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/15 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): P6529/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=21149, q=671 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:22480 pid:6529  ppid:5158   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:7009
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x410 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f5 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3c 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3c 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3c 0b 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000481f820 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: a372cf0145f68c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aaacb40 RDI: ffffffff8afc66c0
RBP: ffffc9000481f930 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff21b46a0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff21b46a1 R12: 1ffff92000903f10
R13: ffffffff8cd2fbe0 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 is_bpf_text_address+0x47/0x2a0 kernel/bpf/core.c:741
 kernel_text_address+0xa0/0xd0 kernel/extable.c:125
 __kernel_text_address+0xd/0x30 kernel/extable.c:79
 unwind_get_return_address+0x5d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:369
 arch_stack_walk+0x11d/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:236
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1806 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1832
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3816 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0xf8/0x280 mm/slub.c:3838
 do_mkdirat+0x3fa/0x440 fs/namei.c:4145
 __do_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4156 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4154 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdir+0x6e/0x80 fs/namei.c:4154
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f8cda114c37
RSP: 002b:00007ffc63845c78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000053
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc63847981 RCX: 00007f8cda114c37
RDX: 0000000000000030 RSI: 00000000000001ed RDI: 00007ffc63845c80
RBP: 00007ffc63846d20 R08: 00007ffc63847950 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc63847950
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000555f801707d4 R15: 0000000000000030
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10524 jiffies! g21149 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:27752 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6773
 schedule_timeout+0x160/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:2167
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x302/0x1560 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.6.102-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d e3 e6 3a 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <c3> cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000187de0 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: e1f7b8d791077900 RBX: ffffffff8161914b RCX: e1f7b8d791077900
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8aaab9c0 RDI: ffffffff8afc66c0
RBP: ffffc90000187f20 R08: ffff8880b8f36d4b R09: 1ffff110171e6da9
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6daa R12: ffffffff8e4a8828
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 1ffff1100364e780
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c261b96 CR3: 0000000065147000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:170 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1eb/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:282
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:380
 start_secondary+0xee/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:323
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/19 00:12 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdir
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.