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INFO: rcu detected stall in io_sq_thread (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/22 13:36
Subsystems: io-uring
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First crash: 128d, last: 128d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in io_sq_thread mm 1 3 484d 534d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/01 09:16

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P30682/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=159257, q=110 ncpus=2)
task:iou-sqp-30676   state:R  running task     stack:27320 pid:30682 tgid:30674 ppid:28794  task_flags:0x404050 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1139/0x6150 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x51/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7190
 irqentry_exit+0x1d8/0x8c0 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:orc_ip arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:81 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__orc_find+0x7e/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:103
Code: ea 3f 48 c1 fe 02 48 01 f2 48 d1 fa 48 8d 5c 95 00 48 89 da 48 c1 ea 03 0f b6 34 0a 48 89 da 83 e2 07 83 c2 03 40 38 f2 7c 05 <40> 84 f6 75 4b 48 63 13 48 01 da 49 39 d5 73 af 4c 8d 63 fc 49 39
RSP: 0018:ffffc900047cf618 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: ffffffff912fbbae RBX: ffffffff90a76918 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff90a768d0
RBP: ffffffff90a76910 R08: ffffffff912fbc2c R09: 00000000755f2188
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000012889 R12: ffffffff90a76920
R13: ffffffff822889f2 R14: ffffffff90a768d0 R15: ffffffff90a7690c
 orc_find arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:238 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0x2ec/0x20b0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:510
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0x100 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:339 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:365
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_bulk_noprof+0x372/0x800 mm/slub.c:7521
 __io_alloc_req_refill+0x9d/0x5e0 io_uring/io_uring.c:1025
 io_alloc_req io_uring/io_uring.h:562 [inline]
 io_submit_sqes+0xf94/0x28e0 io_uring/io_uring.c:2423
 __io_sq_thread io_uring/sqpoll.c:233 [inline]
 io_sq_thread+0x9b2/0x1e30 io_uring/sqpoll.c:345
 ret_from_fork+0x983/0xb10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10533 jiffies! g159257 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:27864 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1139/0x6150 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline]
 schedule+0xe7/0x3a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6960
 schedule_timeout+0x123/0x290 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1ea/0xaf0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x26d/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x983/0xb10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: c6 5f 02 c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 13 49 12 00 fb f4 <e9> cc 35 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197de8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 0000000009849461 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff8b7816d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8dacdeaf RDI: ffffffff8bf2b400
RBP: ffffed1003b56498 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10170a673d
R10: ffff8880b85339eb R11: ffff88801dab2ff0 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffff88801dab24c0 R14: ffffffff9088b3d0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881249f5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fef23cf5f98 CR3: 00000000627c2000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000001 DR1: fffffffffffffff7 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 000000000000000a DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x38d/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 start_secondary+0x21d/0x2d0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/22 13:31 upstream 765b233a9b94 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in io_sq_thread
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.