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INFO: rcu detected stall in kernfs_iop_get_link (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/04 14:21
Subsystems: kernfs
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First crash: 153d, last: 106d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in kernfs_iop_get_link origin:lts-only 1 C error 1 52d 52d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/27 11:59
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in kernfs_iop_get_link mm 1 4 496d 565d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/11 07:30

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6608/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10503 jiffies, g=13489, q=1401 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:26408 pid:6608  tgid:6608  ppid:5187   task_flags:0x400140 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:on_stack arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:60 [inline]
RIP: 0010:stack_access_ok+0x8e/0x200 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:409
Code: 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 0f b6 04 02 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 0b 01 00 00 8b 13 85 d2 74 23 49 39 ef 77 1e 48 39 e9 76 19 <4a> 8d 54 25 00 49 39 d7 0f 92 c0 48 39 d1 0f 93 c2 20 d0 0f 85 ba
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000fab78c8 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc9000fab7978 RCX: ffffc9000fab8000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffc9000fab7d90 RDI: ffffc9000fab7978
RBP: ffffc9000fab7d90 R08: ffffffff91352f9c R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000016b3a R12: 0000000000000008
R13: ffffc9000fab7988 R14: ffffc9000fab7980 R15: ffffc9000fab0000
 deref_stack_reg arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:419 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xb7d/0x20b0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:600
 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:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 kernfs_iop_get_link fs/kernfs/symlink.c:137 [inline]
 kernfs_iop_get_link+0x65/0x1670 fs/kernfs/symlink.c:128
 vfs_readlink+0x213/0x440 fs/namei.c:6140
 do_readlinkat+0x24a/0x3a0 fs/stat.c:590
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:613 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:610 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x78/0xc0 fs/stat.c:610
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe19f6483a7
RSP: 002b:00007ffce27d6b88 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000059
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffce27d73d0 RCX: 00007fe19f6483a7
RDX: 0000000000000400 RSI: 00007ffce27d6f90 RDI: 00007ffce27d6b90
RBP: 0000000000000200 R08: 0000560fbf2cec29 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000010 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffce27d6b90
R13: 00007ffce27d6f90 R14: 00007ffce27d7ce0 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10526 jiffies! g13489 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:28440 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: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 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: 0000:ffffffff8e007df8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 00000000011f0def RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8b7816d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8dace4f3 RDI: ffffffff8bf2b480
RBP: fffffbfff1c12f68 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed101708673d
R10: ffff8880b84339eb R11: ffffffff8e098670 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffff8e097b40 R14: ffffffff9088b9d0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881248f5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b301f8ff8 CR3: 00000000317f6000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
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
 rest_init+0x16b/0x2b0 init/main.c:757
 start_kernel+0x3ef/0x4d0 init/main.c:1206
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:310
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x130/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:291
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148
 </TASK>

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/04 14:17 upstream aacb0a6d604a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kernfs_iop_get_link
2025/12/24 02:46 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kernfs_iop_get_link
2025/11/23 16:48 linux-next d724c6f85e80 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kernfs_iop_get_link
2025/11/18 17:21 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 0135f5afa33b ef766cd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 INFO: rcu detected stall in kernfs_iop_get_link
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.