INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/08/12 12:28
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+894cac40ce97c83618bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 850d, last: 2d08h
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473ebbe0 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 2026/05/22 01:12 2026/05/22 01:12 2026/05/22 02:01 d5742584
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Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close (2) 1 3 26d 118d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/05/21 10:08
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 1 6 793d 843d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/23 16:14
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 1 1 269d 269d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/31 08:37
linux-5.15 BUG: soft lockup in kcov_close 1 1 843d 843d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/03 09:36
upstream INFO: task hung in release_tty (3) serial 1 3 676d 742d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/07 03:06

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P998/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10516 jiffies, g=349865, q=1831 ncpus=2)
task:syz.1.7917      state:R  running task     stack:25320 pid:998   tgid:998   ppid:31223  task_flags:0x40044c flags:0x00080003
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5526 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17db/0x58f0 kernel/sched/core.c:7277
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4b/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7599
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x910 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
RIP: 0010:class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1216 [inline]
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0xb0/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
Code: 35 00 4c 8d 2d 00 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 e0 c8 d5 8e 31 f6 31 d2 b9 02 00 00 00 45 31 c0 45 31 c9 41 55 e8 64 3b 2b 00 48 83 c4 08 <e8> 9b 58 6d 0a 85 c0 74 3a e8 a2 70 34 00 84 c0 75 31 e8 89 58 6d
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003adf500 EFLAGS: 00000296
RAX: defc2a7bc58b6400 RBX: ffffffff81b05c3e RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 00000000105209fd RSI: ffffffff8e69bc48 RDI: ffffffff8c6da080
RBP: 1ffff9200075bebc R08: ffffffff8177f1df R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90003adf5f8 R11: ffffffff81b28a90 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffffff8177f1df R14: ffffc90003adf5a8 R15: 1ffff9200075beb5
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x122/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:183
 __reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:338
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare+0x9eb/0xaf0 mm/page_alloc.c:1463
 __free_contig_range_common+0x174/0x340 mm/page_alloc.c:7072
 __free_contig_range mm/page_alloc.c:7117 [inline]
 free_pages_bulk+0x48/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:5322
 vm_area_free_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3461 [inline]
 vfree+0x231/0x490 mm/vmalloc.c:3510
 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:451 [inline]
 kcov_close+0x28/0x50 kernel/kcov.c:556
 __fput+0x418/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x73a/0x2360 kernel/exit.c:1011
 do_group_exit+0x22d/0x2f0 kernel/exit.c:1154
 get_signal+0x121b/0x12c0 kernel/signal.c:3051
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbb/0x860 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:66 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10e/0x770 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:343 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x328/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbe40d9dec2
RSP: 002b:00007fbe4114faf8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: 00007fbe3ebb4000 RBX: 00007fbe3ebb4000 RCX: 00007fbe40d9dec2
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 00007fbe3ebb4000
RBP: 0000000000000011 R08: 00000000000000db R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000011 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fbe41025fa0
 </TASK>
net_ratelimit: 12118 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)

Crashes (249):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/14 08:28 upstream 704340f1cd0d 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/09/09 10:28 upstream 893e11787f78 8387c273 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/09/04 10:15 upstream 841e384b841a 801f0966 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/16 06:15 upstream 3eb40771c00a 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/14 09:43 upstream 2f1baf1fc892 b13552fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/12 04:47 upstream f5bbbfec59b4 f8d35649 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/10 04:18 upstream b643e495ae92 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/06 17:37 upstream 0d8395707651 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/05 11:31 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/01 20:08 upstream 0131b508c0e2 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/29 07:14 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 19622d9d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/27 10:29 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/09 10:44 upstream 0e35b9b6ec0f b9f1ceaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/24 09:01 upstream f31c00c377cc 042555ff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/23 04:34 upstream ef0c9f75a195 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/13 05:38 upstream 1dadb7e7eb5a 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/07 00:03 upstream 8e65320d91cd cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/06 13:07 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/06 06:50 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/01 11:16 upstream e43ffb69e043 8d8eeb3a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/29 22:53 upstream 9215e74f228f 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/22 02:21 upstream 6779b50faa56 e195359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/20 22:24 upstream df685633c3db 62fb93a2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/19 06:41 upstream 4d3a2a466b8d 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/19 03:17 upstream 4d3a2a466b8d 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/17 01:20 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/15 02:06 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/14 22:29 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/14 11:55 upstream e1914add2799 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/13 16:17 upstream 1d5dcaa3bd65 fec2a7ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/12 23:08 upstream c21b90f77687 a0949470 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/08 11:55 upstream 917719c412c4 5633175a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/07 20:28 upstream 19cbc75c56c0 e358bca5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/05 02:53 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/23 06:22 upstream 2a4c0c11c019 b10da5ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/20 19:54 upstream c1f49dea2b8f e65da4ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/24 16:44 upstream 7dff99b35460 96b1aa46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/21 08:23 upstream 9094662f6707 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/08/08 12:18 upstream 6a0e38264012 de12cf65 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/07/23 15:26 upstream 66ebbdfdeb09 708c10c4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/28 00:34 upstream f5098b6bae76 4cb2b096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/24 02:05 net 7cbfb180945c 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/21 22:52 net 746fc0787f61 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/21 13:00 net 746fc0787f61 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/17 02:25 net 24ef02f934ee 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/02 09:29 net af39eb111ce6 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/09 23:26 net f5089008f90c 4167ee25 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/21 04:04 net 96e7f9122aae 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/18 09:49 net b85966adbf5d b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/13 18:31 net 05f5368cf3e9 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/12 09:18 net 9bf10032894f e93da63e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/12 03:25 net 9bf10032894f e93da63e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/12 00:08 net 7360b9609980 d93a6ab6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/06/05 14:30 net 4aacf509e537 48b6c3fa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/27 08:37 net c66d7c3c1f17 2b01f00e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/21 03:53 net 9a8e01c50093 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/09/04 12:53 net-next 7042c8c193e5 801f0966 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/23 13:04 net-next 91ec20351349 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/08/12 21:21 net-next ac155a26750a 7ae4acc7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/26 12:27 net-next 04026c998c24 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/07/05 02:14 net-next b73bc9ca3686 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/30 10:52 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/08/10 08:33 linux-next b1549501188c 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/10/10 23:19 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 4a9fe2a8ac53 8fbfc0c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/07/17 15:49 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci c912bf709078 03114f55 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/05/02 20:39 bpf-next f263336a41da b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce BUG: soft lockup in kcov_close
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.