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INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/01 10:07
Reported-by: syzbot+40ef4113d0cb4e05dc9b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 73d, last: 9h22m
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill 1 8 3d10h 84d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/01/20 19:30

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P7869/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=26853, q=208 ncpus=2)
task:syz.2.475       state:R  running task     stack:25800 pid:7869  ppid:5769   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbf/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7010
 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:preempt_count arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:27 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online+0x0/0x120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:4222
Code: df e8 e4 25 6e 00 4c 85 3b 0f 95 c0 5b 41 5e 41 5f c3 89 fe 89 fb 48 c7 c7 40 6f 13 8d e8 b8 18 ec 02 89 df e9 53 ff ff ff 90 <f3> 0f 1e fa 41 57 41 56 53 65 8b 0d d8 81 92 7e b0 01 f7 c1 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000378f0e0 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 83e6cd1f4323c700
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b1c8e40 RDI: ffffffff8b1c8e00
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff2238aa0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2238aa1 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000160 R14: 0000000000058026 R15: ffff888019340000
 rcu_read_lock_held_common kernel/rcu/update.c:112 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock_held+0x1e/0x40 kernel/rcu/update.c:348
 lookup_page_ext mm/page_ext.c:240 [inline]
 page_ext_get+0x193/0x2b0 mm/page_ext.c:509
 __page_table_check_zero+0x138/0x4b0 mm/page_table_check.c:148
 page_table_check_free include/linux/page_table_check.h:41 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1182 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7c1/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2365
 free_unref_page_list+0xbe/0x860 mm/page_alloc.c:2504
 release_pages+0x1f7a/0x2200 mm/swap.c:1022
 __folio_batch_release+0x71/0xe0 mm/swap.c:1042
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:83 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x630/0x1b20 mm/shmem.c:1026
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1135 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x245/0x9e0 mm/shmem.c:1264
 evict+0x4ca/0x8d0 fs/inode.c:705
 __dentry_kill+0x431/0x650 fs/dcache.c:611
 dentry_kill+0xb8/0x290 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0xfe/0x1e0 fs/dcache.c:918
 __fput+0x5e5/0x970 fs/file_table.c:392
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:245
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0x95a/0x2460 kernel/exit.c:883
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1024
 get_signal+0x12fc/0x13f0 kernel/signal.c:2902
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc2/0x800 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:310
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f6deed9c819
RSP: 002b:00007f6defcc50e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00007f6def016098 RCX: 00007f6deed9c819
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f6def016098
RBP: 00007f6def016090 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6def016128 R14: 00007ffe22e520b0 R15: 00007ffe22e52198
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10552 jiffies! g26853 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:26760 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6774
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x313/0x1590 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x3b0 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
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 03/18/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: 29 21 02 c3 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 83 e3 41 00 fb f4 <c3> 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 50 8b 2f eb 2e 41 89 de 80
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000187de0 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: c02f47400bbd0700 RBX: ffffffff8162a8f1 RCX: c02f47400bbd0700
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acac9e0 RDI: ffffffff8b1c8e60
RBP: ffffc90000187f20 R08: ffff8880b8f36b2b R09: 1ffff110171e6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6d66 R12: 1ffff92000030fc8
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffff110036cd780 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa3ee872696 CR3: 000000002f65e000 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:178 [inline]
 do_idle+0x221/0x590 kernel/sched/idle.c:302
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 start_secondary+0xee/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:323
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/15 09:36 linux-6.6.y 8cee53b8eaeb e2e976a8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/04/13 05:14 linux-6.6.y 8cee53b8eaeb 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/04/12 10:28 linux-6.6.y 8cee53b8eaeb 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/03/26 05:39 linux-6.6.y c09fbcd31ae6 c6143aac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/02/09 16:02 linux-6.6.y c56aaf1a85ae df949cd9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/02/01 10:07 linux-6.6.y 2cf6f68313dc 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.