INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/01 18:50
Reported-by: syzbot+64943c92e9ed0fc050a1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 105d, last: now
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat 1 2 631d 670d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/02 02:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat 1 1 1011d 1011d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/15 18:20
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat ext4 net 1 3 1221d 1337d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/11 04:05
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat (2) mm 1 44 405d 606d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/13 21:11
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat (3) 1 10 17d 282d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/11/05 18:14
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat (2) 1 1 533d 533d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/08 06:38
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_mkdirat 1 8 800d 852d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/03 20:00

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0-.... } 2661 jiffies s: 50309 root: 0x1/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 16868 Comm: syz.1.3496 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp8+0x0/0x80 kernel/kcov.c:321
Code: 28 4d 39 ca 77 22 89 ff 89 f6 49 ff c0 4c 89 01 48 c7 44 11 08 05 00 00 00 48 89 7c 11 10 48 89 74 11 18 48 89 44 11 20 c3 90 <48> 8b 04 24 65 48 8b 0d 34 3d 80 7e 65 8b 15 35 3d 80 7e 81 e2 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007278 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff81a4b6be RBX: ffffc90000007420 RCX: ffff888052470000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90000007370 R08: ffffc900000073f7 R09: ffffc900000073c0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000000e7f R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc900000076c0
FS:  00007ff68b1076c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001ff98000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000200000000300 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 perf_prepare_sample+0xe87/0x2020 kernel/events/core.c:7639
 __perf_event_output kernel/events/core.c:7730 [inline]
 perf_event_output_forward+0x197/0x2f0 kernel/events/core.c:7750
 __perf_event_overflow+0x457/0x630 kernel/events/core.c:9496
 perf_swevent_overflow+0x19b/0x230 kernel/events/core.c:9579
 perf_swevent_event+0x458/0x570 kernel/events/core.c:-1
 perf_tp_event+0x36b/0xc10 kernel/events/core.c:10064
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10032
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x268/0x320 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0xd3/0x140 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x24/0x40 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:728
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x7f/0x510 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:685
Code: eb 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 42 c7 44 2b 08 f8 f3 f3 f3 65 44 8b 35 a2 7c 95 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 40 <48> c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 42 c7 44 2b 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007ae0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0fdaf0a6e6cd5d00 RBX: 1ffff92000000f64 RCX: 0fdaf0a6e6cd5d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c17a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf5de0
RBP: ffffc90000007bd0 R08: ffffffff90b10247 R09: 1ffffffff2162048
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2162049 R12: 0000000000000246
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b8e3bb00 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:823 [inline]
 ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x156/0x170 net/mac80211/util.c:826
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0xb7/0x1b0 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:2147
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1751 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x522/0xc90 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1815
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x173/0x290 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1832
 handle_softirqs+0x291/0x910 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:679
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:691
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xbc/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f7 44 24 20 00 02 00 00 41 c6 04 07 f8 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> 3f 89 1e f7 65 8b 05 b0 3a c8 75 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003f879e0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: dffffc0000000004 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: 0fdaf0a6e6cd5d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c17a0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc90003f87a70 R08: ffffffff90b10247 R09: 1ffffffff2162048
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2162049 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888141e9d800 R14: ffffffff8cbebfa0 R15: 1ffff920007f0f3c
 spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:406 [inline]
 pcpu_alloc+0xb47/0x16b0 mm/percpu.c:1850
 cpuacct_css_alloc+0xab/0x120 kernel/sched/cpuacct.c:70
 css_create kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:5570 [inline]
 cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x3cc/0xb00 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:3283
 cgroup_mkdir+0xc7f/0xe70 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:5789
 kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x23d/0x3d0 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1221
 vfs_mkdir+0x386/0x570 fs/namei.c:4114
 do_mkdirat+0x1d8/0x440 fs/namei.c:4139
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4154 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4152 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x85/0x90 fs/namei.c:4152
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7ff68a19e0d9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ff68b107028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000102
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff68a425fa0 RCX: 00007ff68a19e0d9
RDX: 00000000000001ff RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 000000000000000d
RBP: 00007ff68a235024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff68a426038 R14: 00007ff68a425fa0 R15: 00007ffdd91db4d8
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/15 17:16 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
2026/08/15 09:41 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
2026/06/02 15:47 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 62fe1528 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
2026/05/28 04:40 linux-6.1.y dcbcab9d7079 4c36e7e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
2026/05/01 18:50 linux-6.1.y 4931e0e1673d 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
2026/06/04 07:54 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.