INFO: rcu detected stall in netdev_run_todo

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/06 01:55
Reported-by: syzbot+2cbe30771ba7efa7282b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 292d, last: 292d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in netdev_run_todo 1 1 286d 286d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/12 06:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in netdev_run_todo kernel 1 1 2988d 2988d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/07/20 11:18
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in netdev_run_todo (2) 1 1 11d 11d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/06 18:06

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-...!: (2 ticks this GP) idle=665/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=90765/90765 fqs=0 
	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=127749, q=1287)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 29760 Comm: syz.8.6598 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:__perf_event_overflow+0x41c/0x530 kernel/events/core.c:9523
Code: 00 00 00 c7 83 20 04 00 00 01 00 00 00 48 81 c3 38 04 00 00 48 89 df e8 c2 bc ec ff eb 0c e8 eb f8 e0 ff eb 05 e8 e4 f8 e0 ff <44> 89 e8 48 83 c4 28 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 e8 cd f8 e0
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007548 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff8196d1a5 RBX: ffff888067f2df80 RCX: ffff8880604ebb80
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: ffffffff8a0b2b40 RDI: ffff888067f2e260
RBP: ffffc90000007680 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ad334e
R10: fffffbfff1ad334e R11: 1ffffffff1ad334d R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888067f2e398 R15: ffff8880b90351c8
FS:  00007f5f960346c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fda8aaf6741 CR3: 000000006534c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0100000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 perf_swevent_overflow kernel/events/core.c:9591 [inline]
 perf_swevent_event+0x4ad/0x530 kernel/events/core.c:9629
 perf_tp_event+0x32c/0xb50 kernel/events/core.c:10047
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10021
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2be/0x380 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x84/0x480 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: f1 f1 f1 00 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 66 42 c7 44 2b 09 f3 f3 42 c6 44 2b 0b f3 65 44 8b 35 6d 13 9e 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 45 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 2b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007ae0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: fac26aed13926d00 RBX: 1ffff92000000f60 RCX: fac26aed13926d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b18a0 RDI: ffffffff8a59a880
RBP: ffffc90000007bb8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017207662
R10: ffffed1017207662 R11: 1ffff11017207661 R12: ffffffff8c120c00
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x132/0x140 net/mac80211/util.c:831
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0x9b/0x180 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1865
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x53d/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x176/0x240 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1766
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 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:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xa5/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: 74 05 e8 5e 2c cb f7 48 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f6 44 24 21 02 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> f6 b5 9e f7 65 8b 05 87 b3 4f 76 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000396f140 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: fac26aed13926d00 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: fac26aed13926d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b18a0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000396f1c8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017207662
R10: ffffed1017207662 R11: 1ffff11017207661 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888062791700 R14: ffffffff96347c90 R15: 1ffff9200072de28
 __debug_check_no_obj_freed lib/debugobjects.c:982 [inline]
 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x515/0x530 lib/debugobjects.c:1003
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1685 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x8b/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 netif_free_rx_queues net/core/dev.c:10221 [inline]
 free_netdev+0x17b/0x480 net/core/dev.c:10997
 netdev_run_todo+0x85f/0xa40 net/core/dev.c:10693
 rtnl_unlock net/core/rtnetlink.c:112 [inline]
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x9c0/0xe60 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5651
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e0/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2507
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x774/0x920 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ab/0xbc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1918
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5a2/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2436
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x1f0/0x260 net/socket.c:2490
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2519 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2528 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x250 net/socket.c:2526
 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: 0033:0x7f5f97dccfc9
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:00007f5f96034038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5f98023fa0 RCX: 00007f5f97dccfc9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 00007f5f97e4ff91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5f98024038 R14: 00007f5f98023fa0 R15: 00007ffd81c38da8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10502 jiffies! g127749 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=77634
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10503 jiffies! g127749 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:27168 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 29760 Comm: syz.8.6598 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:__perf_event_account_interrupt+0x226/0x280 kernel/events/core.c:9448
Code: 48 8b 93 f0 01 00 00 48 89 df 4c 89 f6 b9 01 00 00 00 e8 dd 68 01 00 eb 05 e8 96 fd e0 ff 89 e8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d <c3> e8 84 fd e0 ff 48 c7 c7 a0 a2 12 8a e8 e8 91 12 08 65 ff 05 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007540 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888067f2eb70 RCX: ffff8880604ebb80
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff888067f2efe0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed100cfe5dfd
R10: ffffed100cfe5dfd R11: 1ffff1100cfe5dfc R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000009 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f5f960346c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fda8aaf6741 CR3: 000000006534c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0100000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __perf_event_overflow+0x99/0x530 kernel/events/core.c:9474
 perf_swevent_overflow kernel/events/core.c:9591 [inline]
 perf_swevent_event+0x4ad/0x530 kernel/events/core.c:9629
 perf_tp_event+0x32c/0xb50 kernel/events/core.c:10047
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10021
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2be/0x380 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x84/0x480 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: f1 f1 f1 00 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 66 42 c7 44 2b 09 f3 f3 42 c6 44 2b 0b f3 65 44 8b 35 6d 13 9e 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 45 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 2b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007ae0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: fac26aed13926d00 RBX: 1ffff92000000f60 RCX: fac26aed13926d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b18a0 RDI: ffffffff8a59a880
RBP: ffffc90000007bb8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017207662
R10: ffffed1017207662 R11: 1ffff11017207661 R12: ffffffff8c120c00
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x132/0x140 net/mac80211/util.c:831
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0x9b/0x180 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1865
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x53d/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x176/0x240 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1766
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 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:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xa5/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: 74 05 e8 5e 2c cb f7 48 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f6 44 24 21 02 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> f6 b5 9e f7 65 8b 05 87 b3 4f 76 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000396f140 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: fac26aed13926d00 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: fac26aed13926d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b18a0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000396f1c8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017207662
R10: ffffed1017207662 R11: 1ffff11017207661 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888062791700 R14: ffffffff96347c90 R15: 1ffff9200072de28
 __debug_check_no_obj_freed lib/debugobjects.c:982 [inline]
 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x515/0x530 lib/debugobjects.c:1003
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1685 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x8b/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 netif_free_rx_queues net/core/dev.c:10221 [inline]
 free_netdev+0x17b/0x480 net/core/dev.c:10997
 netdev_run_todo+0x85f/0xa40 net/core/dev.c:10693
 rtnl_unlock net/core/rtnetlink.c:112 [inline]
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x9c0/0xe60 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5651
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e0/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2507
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x774/0x920 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ab/0xbc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1918
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5a2/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2436
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x1f0/0x260 net/socket.c:2490
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2519 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2528 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x250 net/socket.c:2526
 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: 0033:0x7f5f97dccfc9
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:00007f5f96034038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5f98023fa0 RCX: 00007f5f97dccfc9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 00007f5f97e4ff91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5f98024038 R14: 00007f5f98023fa0 R15: 00007ffd81c38da8
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/29 01:55 linux-5.15.y ac56c046adf4 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in netdev_run_todo
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.