syzbot


INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/04 02:09
Subsystems: mm
[Documentation on labels]
First crash: 122d, last: 117d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call kasan mm 1 1 504d 504d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/13 15:30

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P25182/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=477681, q=483436 ncpus=2)
task:syz.5.39446     state:R  running task     stack:25576 pid:25182 tgid:25182 ppid:11913  task_flags:0x40004c flags:0x10080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7256
 irqentry_exit+0x6f/0x90 kernel/entry/common.c:211
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f/0x360 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5828
Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 60 4d 89 ce 45 89 c7 41 89 cc 89 54 24 04 <89> f3 49 89 fd 48 8b ac 24 98 00 00 00 65 48 8b 05 ec dd d0 10 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000488f5d8 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffffff81c1730a RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8df3d660
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000488f798 R11: ffffffff81ac2f50 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffc9000488f780 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x2390 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:479
 arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf5/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:156
 __reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:311
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1394 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc4/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2906
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3326 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x146/0x170 mm/slub.c:3872
 put_cpu_partial+0x1f2/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:3947
 __slab_free+0x2b9/0x390 mm/slub.c:5921
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x140 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:352
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4970 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5280 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x367/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:5287
 taskstats_tgid_alloc kernel/taskstats.c:576 [inline]
 taskstats_exit+0x14a/0xa30 kernel/taskstats.c:615
 do_exit+0x630/0x2300 kernel/exit.c:941
 do_group_exit+0x21c/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1107
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1118 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1116 [inline]
 __ia32_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1116
 ia32_sys_call+0x21f4/0x2200 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:253
 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]
 __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb6/0x2b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:306
 do_fast_syscall_32+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:331
 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
RIP: 0023:0xf703d539
RSP: 002b:00000000f752fd4c EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000fc
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffffff9c RDI: 00000000f73d6ff4
RBP: 000000000000002c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10361 jiffies! g477681 f0x2 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:27224 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7011 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7026
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </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 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 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 f3 f1 21 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <e9> c8 e6 02 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8dc07d80 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: ec97c200051df500 RBX: ffffffff81967bf7 RCX: ec97c200051df500
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d70d481 RDI: ffffffff8bbf0760
RBP: ffffffff8dc07ea8 R08: ffff8880b8832fdb R09: 1ffff110171065fb
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171065fc R12: ffffffff8f7cdc70
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffffffff1b92a40
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88812613d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000f53eb305 CR3: 00000000301c0000 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+0x73/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:190 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1e7/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:330
 cpu_startup_entry+0x44/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:428
 rest_init+0x2de/0x300 init/main.c:757
 start_kernel+0x3ae/0x410 init/main.c:1111
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:310
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x143/0x1c0 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:291
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x147
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/06 02:04 upstream dc77806cf3b4 a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call
2025/10/31 21:23 upstream b909d77359b8 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.