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INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/02/13 22:15
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+78333376e548748b2b68@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 67d, last: 12h32m
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/03/17 linux-5.15.y (ToT) 0c935c049b5c C [report] INFO: rcu detected stall in corrupted
2025/03/17 upstream (ToT) 4701f33a1070 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn (2) fs 1 1029d 1029d 0/28 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/25 22:53
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn mm 2 1272d 1279d 0/28 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/01/25 21:50
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn 1 977d 977d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/12/16 09:39
linux-6.1 BUG: soft lockup in wb_workfn origin:upstream syz 3 30d 179d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/10/24 21:18
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn (3) hfs ext4 block 3 610d 692d 0/28 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/18 21:40
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn origin:lts-only syz error 4 194d 266d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/21 00:06
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn 1 2010d 2010d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/02/17 08:22
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/03/09 06:50 42m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/03/27 02:48 16m fix candidate upstream error job log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P530/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=5057, q=176)
task:kworker/u4:5    state:R  running task     stack:    0 pid:  530 ppid:     2 flags:0x00000008
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-259:0)
Call trace:
 __switch_to+0x308/0x588 arch/arm64/kernel/process.c:518
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5030 [inline]
 __schedule+0xf10/0x1e48 kernel/sched/core.c:6376
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x90/0x274 kernel/sched/core.c:6780
 arm64_preempt_schedule_irq+0x174/0x2c4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:260
 el1_interrupt+0x40/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:463
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:470
 el1h_64_irq+0x78/0x7c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:522
 arch_local_irq_restore arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h:122 [inline]
 mod_lruvec_page_state include/linux/vmstat.h:497 [inline]
 inc_lruvec_page_state include/linux/vmstat.h:549 [inline]
 __test_set_page_writeback+0x96c/0xc70 mm/page-writeback.c:2886
 ext4_bio_write_page+0x220/0x1e40 fs/ext4/page-io.c:-1
 mpage_submit_page fs/ext4/inode.c:2112 [inline]
 mpage_map_and_submit_buffers fs/ext4/inode.c:2360 [inline]
 mpage_map_and_submit_extent fs/ext4/inode.c:2499 [inline]
 ext4_writepages+0x1b90/0x36fc fs/ext4/inode.c:2828
 do_writepages+0x39c/0x5ec mm/page-writeback.c:2386
 __writeback_single_inode+0x148/0x13a4 fs/fs-writeback.c:1647
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x94c/0x1654 fs/fs-writeback.c:1930
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x110/0x39c fs/fs-writeback.c:2001
 wb_writeback+0x410/0xfc8 fs/fs-writeback.c:2106
 wb_check_old_data_flush fs/fs-writeback.c:2206 [inline]
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2259 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0xbb4/0x1070 fs/fs-writeback.c:2288
 process_one_work+0x790/0x11b8 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0x910/0x1034 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x37c/0x45c kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:870
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g5057 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->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:R  running task     stack:    0 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00000008
Call trace:
 __switch_to+0x308/0x588 arch/arm64/kernel/process.c:518
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5030 [inline]
 __schedule+0xf10/0x1e48 kernel/sched/core.c:6376
 schedule+0x11c/0x1c8 kernel/sched/core.c:6459
 schedule_timeout+0x1d8/0x344 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x26c/0x13d4 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0xc4/0x2c4 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x37c/0x45c kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:870
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Task dump for CPU 0:
task:syz-executor306 state:R  running task     stack:    0 pid: 4096 ppid:  4049 flags:0x00000001
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x530 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:152
 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:216
 sched_show_task+0x43c/0x574 kernel/sched/core.c:8640
 dump_cpu_task+0x84/0xa8 kernel/sched/core.c:10927
 rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation+0x1f0/0x254 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:488
 print_other_cpu_stall+0x202c/0x2290 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3932 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x1894/0x1b8c kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x1d4/0x270 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x340/0x4f8 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1690 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x458/0xca4 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x4e0/0xb64 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1816
 timer_handler drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c:659 [inline]
 arch_timer_handler_virt+0x74/0x88 drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c:670
 handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x29c/0x7fc kernel/irq/chip.c:930
 generic_handle_irq_desc include/linux/irqdesc.h:158 [inline]
 handle_irq_desc kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:652 [inline]
 handle_domain_irq+0x144/0x1fc kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:707
 gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x1c8 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c:765
 call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x4c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:899
 do_interrupt_handler+0x74/0x94 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:267
 el1_interrupt+0x30/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:454
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:470
 el1h_64_irq+0x78/0x7c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:522
 arch_local_irq_enable arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h:35 [inline]
 __raw_spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:168 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xa4/0x134 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:202
 spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock.h:413 [inline]
 get_signal+0x11b4/0x1550 kernel/signal.c:2903
 do_signal arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:890 [inline]
 do_notify_resume+0x320/0x32b8 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:943
 prepare_exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:133 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:138 [inline]
 el0_svc+0xfc/0x1f0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:609
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xe4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:626
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:584

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/04/21 10:45 linux-5.15.y f7347f400572 2a20f901 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn
2025/02/13 22:14 linux-5.15.y c16c81c81336 a98a8417 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn
2025/02/23 01:37 linux-5.15.y c16c81c81336 d34966d1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in wb_workfn
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.