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INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/07 16:16
Reported-by: syzbot+61b8ea90ad701f9e2a82@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 186d, last: 173d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write (4) sound 1 1 958d 958d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/05 12:57
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write mm 1 1 2331d 2331d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write (6) sound mm 1 8 91d 315d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/20 03:16
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write (3) block 1 1 1166d 1166d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/20 22:18
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write (2) sound 1 2 1342d 1429d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/11/16 04:30
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write (5) sound 1 2 447d 488d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/29 04:59

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=14f/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=8033/8034 fqs=0 
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P144/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=8505, q=6)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 4619 Comm: syz.3.79 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x56e/0x870 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5646
Code: ff 65 0f c1 05 73 f8 a5 7e 83 f8 01 75 75 48 c7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 <75> 75 f7 44 24 50 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dd0b60 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: 82e04a5e74a10500
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b2f00 RDI: ffffffff8a59e580
RBP: ffffc90000dd0c70 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ad33a6
R10: fffffbfff1ad33a6 R11: 1ffffffff1ad33a5 R12: ffff88802a00c670
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88802a00c660 R15: 1ffff920001ba178
FS:  00007f76773336c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000006000 CR3: 0000000075a5f000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:158 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x6d/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1681 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x441/0xc40 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+0x9b/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:finish_lock_switch+0x134/0x280 kernel/sched/core.c:4804
Code: be ff ff ff ff e8 7c fc 55 08 85 c0 74 4a 4d 85 ff 75 66 e9 fe 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 76 67 5f 08 e8 11 76 2a 00 fb 48 83 c4 08 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 89 df e8 d9 0f fe ff 43 80 3c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002fff708 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: 82e04a5e74a10500 RBX: ffff8880b903a340 RCX: 82e04a5e74a10500
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1c60 RDI: ffffffff8a59e580
RBP: 1ffff11017227613 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017207469
R10: ffffed1017207469 R11: 1ffff11017207468 R12: ffff8880b913b088
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b913ae08 R15: 0000000000000000
 finish_task_switch+0x12f/0x640 kernel/sched/core.c:4921
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5052 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 snd_rawmidi_write+0x3e3/0xbc0 sound/core/rawmidi.c:1542
 do_loop_readv_writev fs/read_write.c:-1 [inline]
 do_iter_write+0x3e4/0x7b0 fs/read_write.c:857
 vfs_writev fs/read_write.c:928 [inline]
 do_writev+0x254/0x410 fs/read_write.c:971
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f76790cbfc9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f7677333038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000014
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7679322fa0 RCX: 00007f76790cbfc9
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000200000000840 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: 00007f767914ef91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7679323038 R14: 00007f7679322fa0 R15: 00007ffea520d888
 </TASK>
task:kworker/u4:1    state:R  running task     stack:25408 pid:  144 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_nc_worker
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6799
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:432
 asm_sysvec_reschedule_ipi+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:681
RIP: 0010:__rcu_read_unlock+0x9/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:415
Code: 00 00 40 7d 02 5b c3 0f 0b eb fa 89 d9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 7c e3 48 89 df e8 92 d7 57 00 eb d9 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 <49> bf 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48 8b 3d 15 13 9e 7e 48 8d 9f 3c
RSP: 0018:ffffc900016bfbb0 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff897e9c65 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffff888017980000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a59e560 RDI: ffffffff8a59e520
RBP: ffff88801abd0d00 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff7c19
R10: fffffbfff1ff7c19 R11: 1ffffffff1ff7c18 R12: 0000000000000260
R13: fffffffffffffe38 R14: ffff888076f08c80 R15: ffff88801abd0d10
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 batadv_nc_purge_orig_hash net/batman-adv/network-coding.c:416 [inline]
 batadv_nc_worker+0x256/0x5c0 net/batman-adv/network-coding.c:723
 process_one_work+0x863/0x1000 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10501 jiffies! g8505 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=4734
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g8505 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:28064 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x29e/0x11b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x98/0x350 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:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x397/0x3d0 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_check_gp_kthread_starvation+0x1cd/0x250 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:487
 print_other_cpu_stall+0x10c8/0x1220 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x831/0x1110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 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+0x4fe/0xc40 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+0x9b/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: bf 48 89 df e8 66 76 09 f8 eb b5 e8 9f af f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 66 90 0f 00 2d 37 06 53 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:ffffffff8be07dc8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 8a4fdb2d0c53d000 RBX: ffffffff8bebc480 RCX: 8a4fdb2d0c53d000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1c60 RDI: ffffffff8a59e580
RBP: ffffffff8be07ef8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017207662
R10: ffffed1017207662 R11: 1ffff11017207661 R12: ffffffff8d699d28
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffffffff17d7890
 default_idle_call+0x81/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:112
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:194 [inline]
 do_idle+0x21b/0x5b0 kernel/sched/idle.c:306
 cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:403
 start_kernel+0x486/0x530 init/main.c:1154
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb1/0xbb
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/30 16:15 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write
2025/10/17 16:56 linux-5.15.y 29e53a5b1c4f 7adf5298 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in snd_rawmidi_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.