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INFO: rcu detected stall in tipc_disc_timeout (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/30 17:12
Reported-by: syzbot+fce9d388df2a52aba167@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 43d, last: 8h23m
Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in tipc_disc_timeout netfilter 1 1 2673d 2673d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/07/15 13:31
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in tipc_disc_timeout (2) net 1 1 2434d 2434d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/12/11 15:14
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in tipc_disc_timeout 1 1 285d 285d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/07 23:05
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in tipc_disc_timeout (3) net 1 1 676d 676d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/03 12:56
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in tipc_disc_timeout (2) 1 1 1311d 1311d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/02/06 01:50
linux-6.1 BUG: soft lockup in tipc_disc_timeout 1 6 234d 296d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/29 01:14
upstream BUG: soft lockup in tipc_disc_timeout net 1 1 519d 519d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/01/15 12:30
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in tipc_disc_timeout 1 2 1696d 1697d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/01/17 13:56
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in tipc_disc_timeout 1 1 1009d 1009d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/05 03:35

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	1-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=c69/0/0x3 softirq=61611/61613 fqs=2567 
	(t=10503 jiffies g=88069 q=1363)
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 5020 jiffies! g88069 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=74501
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 5024 jiffies! g88069 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:26960 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2117
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2be/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9b/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:729
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x22f/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:349
 print_cpu_stall+0x31d/0x5f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:633
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:727 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x6ea/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4b4/0xb70 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:cake_heapify+0x3c/0x6a0 net/sched/sch_cake.c:1481
Code: fc e8 a8 9d 64 f9 41 89 ef bf 01 20 00 00 89 ee e8 79 a0 64 f9 81 fd 01 20 00 00 0f 83 fb 05 00 00 44 0f b7 f5 bf 00 20 00 00 <44> 89 f6 e8 5c a0 64 f9 41 81 fe 00 20 00 00 75 0a e8 6e 9d 64 f9
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dd01e0 EFLAGS: 00000287
RAX: ffffffff881496f7 RBX: 0000000000000619 RCX: ffff88813fe78000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000619 RDI: 0000000000002000
RBP: 0000000000000619 R08: ffffffff901d518f R09: 1ffffffff203aa31
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203aa32 R12: ffff888045d582c0
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000619 R15: 0000000000000619
 cake_drop net/sched/sch_cake.c:1575 [inline]
 cake_enqueue+0x33d9/0x7fc0 net/sched/sch_cake.c:1949
 dev_qdisc_enqueue+0x48/0x210 net/core/dev.c:3865
 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3949 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0xc25/0x2f80 net/core/dev.c:4266
 tipc_l2_send_msg+0x30a/0x3c0 net/tipc/bearer.c:518
 tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0x292/0x3c0 net/tipc/bearer.c:577
 tipc_disc_timeout+0x57d/0x6d0 net/tipc/discover.c:338
 call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1648
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1699 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x53e/0x800 kernel/time/timer.c:1970
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1983
 handle_softirqs+0x339/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:730
Code: b7 48 89 df e8 76 39 f8 f7 eb ad e8 4f af f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 66 90 0f 00 2d 97 b5 5f 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000d67d48 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: b5c91697c34d8a00 RBX: ffff88813fe78000 RCX: b5c91697c34d8a00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2800 RDI: ffffffff8a79fe00
RBP: ffffc90000d67e80 R08: ffff8880b913b30b R09: 1ffff11017227661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017227662 R12: 1ffff920001acfb4
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffff11027fcf000 R15: 0000000000000000
 default_idle_call+0x81/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:112
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:202 [inline]
 do_idle+0x3a1/0x650 kernel/sched/idle.c:326
 cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:424
 start_secondary+0x330/0x430 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:281
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb1/0xbb
 </TASK>

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/12 11:28 linux-5.15.y de8dfb3f0278 07aeade5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in tipc_disc_timeout
2026/03/30 17:12 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b dcaebc52 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in tipc_disc_timeout
2026/03/30 17:11 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b dcaebc52 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in tipc_disc_timeout
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.