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INFO: rcu detected stall in io_submit

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/18 16:04
Reported-by: syzbot+48762beee5a13074f99d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d18h, last: 3d18h
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_io_submit (2) fs 1 1 772d 772d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/08 15:55
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_io_submit (3) mm 1 1 241d 241d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/20 22:22
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_io_submit perf 1 1 1718d 1718d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/02/05 09:08
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_io_submit 1 1 809d 809d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/02 05:36

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P8450/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=51901, q=92 ncpus=2)
task:syz.1.1068      state:R  running task     stack:24304 pid:8450  ppid:4275   flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6874
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:439
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:xas_descend+0xa/0x460 lib/xarray.c:202
Code: 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 38 c1 0f 8c 46 ff ff ff 4c 89 f7 89 f5 e8 58 5e b0 f7 89 ee e9 35 ff ff ff 90 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 <48> 83 ec 20 49 89 f5 48 89 fb 49 bf 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e8 1d
RSP: 0018:ffffc900059af228 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff8a238018 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: ffff8880733b9e00 RSI: ffff888067d70dc0 RDI: ffffc900059af268
RBP: 000000000000000c R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff2162048
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2162049 R12: 1ffff1100cfae1b8
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888067d70dc2 R15: ffff888067d70dc0
 xas_load lib/xarray.c:242 [inline]
 xa_load+0x18a/0x2e0 lib/xarray.c:1463
 __readahead_folio include/linux/pagemap.h:1289 [inline]
 readahead_folio include/linux/pagemap.h:1322 [inline]
 mpage_readahead+0x1f2/0x890 fs/mpage.c:357
 read_pages+0x187/0x860 mm/readahead.c:161
 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x667/0x750 mm/readahead.c:270
 filemap_readahead mm/filemap.c:2640 [inline]
 filemap_get_pages mm/filemap.c:2681 [inline]
 filemap_read+0x917/0x3150 mm/filemap.c:2759
 blkdev_read_iter+0x42f/0x570 block/fops.c:668
 call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2259 [inline]
 aio_read+0x337/0x490 fs/aio.c:1575
 __io_submit_one fs/aio.c:-1 [inline]
 io_submit_one+0x6a3/0x1340 fs/aio.c:2034
 __do_sys_io_submit fs/aio.c:2093 [inline]
 __se_sys_io_submit+0x19d/0x310 fs/aio.c:2063
 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: 0033:0x7ffb0679de99
RSP: 002b:00007ffb07725028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d1
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffb06a25fa0 RCX: 00007ffb0679de99
RDX: 00002000000000c0 RSI: 00000000000000ca RDI: 00007ffb076c2000
RBP: 00007ffb06833eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffb06a26038 R14: 00007ffb06a25fa0 R15: 00007fff187ec948
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9661 jiffies! g51901 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=1
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:28112 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6638
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x303/0x1350 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1905
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:742
Code: 48 89 df e8 67 01 99 f7 e9 44 ff ff ff e8 8d 03 f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 66 90 0f 00 2d f7 60 4c 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:ffffc90000177de8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: efe6d89056261700 RBX: ffffffff8a3a4b17 RCX: efe6d89056261700
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a8c17a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf42e0
RBP: ffffc90000177f20 R08: ffff8880b8f3580b R09: 1ffff110171e6b01
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6b02 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff888017701e00 R15: 1ffff9200002efc8
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055c28bf86000 CR3: 000000002866e000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 default_idle_call+0x84/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:109
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x250/0x680 kernel/sched/idle.c:323
 cpu_startup_entry+0x3f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:422
 start_secondary+0xe4/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:281
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xcf/0xdb
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/18 16:04 linux-6.1.y 090666d3cc90 72524a66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in io_submit
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.