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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_execveat (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/19 19:27
Subsystems: mm fs
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First crash: 189d, last: 131d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_execveat mm 1 1 312d 312d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/19 05:21

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5994/1:b..l P20526/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=155869, q=333 ncpus=2)
task:syz.8.3948      state:R  running task     stack:26568 pid:20526 tgid:20521 ppid:18575  task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1585/0x5340 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 irqentry_exit+0x599/0x620 kernel/entry/common.c:239
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:__preempt_count_add kernel/rcu/tree.c:748 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rcu_is_watching+0x6/0xb0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:751
Code: e8 7f ba 3f 03 eb cc 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 41 57 <41> 56 53 65 ff 05 d0 03 71 11 e8 3b 70 02 0a 89 c3 83 f8 08 73 65
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000445f528 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: ffffffff8239e32f RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: ffff8880593cdac0 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8239e2fe R09: ffffffff8e7602e0
R10: 000000000000000f R11: ffffffff81b0a800 R12: ffffea00016b3c80
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8239e2fe R15: 0000017a332a20de
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:851 [inline]
 __update_page_owner_free_handle+0x68/0x470 mm/page_owner.c:283
 __reset_page_owner+0x85/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:321
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1432 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc00/0xd90 mm/page_alloc.c:2977
 __slab_free+0x263/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:5532
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4501 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4830 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2ba/0x660 mm/slub.c:5334
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:962 [inline]
 ima_d_path+0xd4/0x230 security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c:445
 process_measurement+0x1382/0x1c80 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:418
 ima_bprm_check+0x121/0x180 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:589
 security_bprm_check+0xcd/0x240 security/security.c:794
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1654 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1696 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0x896/0x1460 fs/exec.c:1748
 do_execveat_common+0x50d/0x690 fs/exec.c:1846
 __do_sys_execveat fs/exec.c:1941 [inline]
 __se_sys_execveat fs/exec.c:1934 [inline]
 __x64_sys_execveat+0xc7/0xf0 fs/exec.c:1934
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f4a0b99c629
RSP: 002b:00007f4a0c7a8028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000142
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4a0bc16270 RCX: 00007f4a0b99c629
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 00007f4a0ba32b39 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f4a0bc16308 R14: 00007f4a0bc16270 R15: 00007f4a0bd3fa48
 </TASK>
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:23904 pid:5994  tgid:5994  ppid:5196   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080800
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1585/0x5340 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 irqentry_exit+0x599/0x620 kernel/entry/common.c:239
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x20b/0x2e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: e9 30 ff ff ff e8 95 7e 0b 0a f7 c3 00 02 00 00 0f 84 38 ff ff ff 65 48 8b 05 11 2c 7a 11 48 3b 44 24 30 75 33 fb 48 83 c4 38 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d ce 4f 73
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004676f78 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 750d108aed76a700 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 000000008a166eff RSI: ffffffff8e161281 RDI: ffffffff8c27a500
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff81767a45 R09: ffffffff8e7602e0
R10: ffffc900046770d8 R11: ffffffff81b0a800 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8e7602e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1193 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x23c0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x122/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:165
 __reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:320
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1432 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc00/0xd90 mm/page_alloc.c:2977
 __slab_free+0x263/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:5532
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4501 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4830 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5218 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x316/0x760 mm/slub.c:5231
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:966 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1204 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode2 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:45 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode+0x28b/0x550 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:80
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x58d/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:283
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x229/0x470 security/tomoyo/file.c:776
 security_file_open+0xa9/0x240 security/security.c:2636
 do_dentry_open+0x384/0x14e0 fs/open.c:926
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1081
 do_open fs/namei.c:4671 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2e08/0x3860 fs/namei.c:4830
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4859
 do_sys_openat2+0x113/0x200 fs/open.c:1366
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1388 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1383 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1383
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fd5752a7407
RSP: 002b:00007ffde54295c0 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd5759d9880 RCX: 00007fd5752a7407
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: 00007ffde5429730 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000055ee9b8807f5
R13: 000055ee9b8807f5 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 000055ee9b89b140
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9665 jiffies! g155869 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:28128 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1585/0x5340 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6989 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7004
 schedule_timeout+0x158/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x312/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 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 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:native_save_fl arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:26 [inline]
RIP: 0010:arch_local_save_flags arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:109 [inline]
RIP: 0010:arch_irqs_disabled arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:151 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__local_bh_disable_ip+0x3c/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:391
Code: 00 0f 00 0f 85 97 00 00 00 9c 41 5e fa 65 01 1d 1a b0 93 11 65 8b 05 13 b0 93 11 31 d8 a9 00 ff 00 00 75 05 e8 e5 70 19 00 9c <58> a9 00 02 00 00 75 77 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 65 8b 05 eb
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006ba0 EFLAGS: 00000006
RAX: 0000000080000101 RBX: 0000000000000200 RCX: ffffffff8e494ec0
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000200 RDI: ffffffff8a538d80
RBP: ffffc90000006cd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8880b0783500
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2022e17 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffff8a538d80 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125466000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00002000002af030 CR3: 0000000035558000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 local_bh_disable include/linux/bottom_half.h:20 [inline]
 ip6_pol_route+0x51a/0x13d0 net/ipv6/route.c:2314
 pol_lookup_func include/net/ip6_fib.h:617 [inline]
 fib6_rule_lookup+0x556/0x730 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:120
 ip6_route_input_lookup net/ipv6/route.c:2351 [inline]
 ip6_route_input+0x730/0xad0 net/ipv6/route.c:2654
 ip6_rcv_finish+0x141/0x2e0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:77
 ip_sabotage_in+0x1e1/0x270 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:990
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xc5/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:623
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:273 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x21f/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:316
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6149 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6262 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6348 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb+0x278/0xc50 net/core/dev.c:6407
 NF_HOOK+0xa4/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:319
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x14b2/0x1b40 net/bridge/br_input.c:-1
 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x3dd/0x4c0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:-1
 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0xa3a/0xd70 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:-1
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x374/0x6f0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:184
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:291 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x1277/0x1510 net/bridge/br_input.c:442
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x98f/0x31a0 net/core/dev.c:6036
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6147 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6262 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x76d/0x1950 net/core/dev.c:6614
 __napi_poll+0xae/0x340 net/core/dev.c:7678
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7741 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x627/0xf70 net/core/dev.c:7893
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x5f/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:63
Code: ae 6d 02 c3 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 43 6d 1c 00 fb f4 <e9> 7c ea 02 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8e407dc0 EFLAGS: 00000242
RAX: 0000000002ece9ef RBX: ffffffff819a77ad RCX: 0000000080000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8def122b RDI: ffffffff8c27a500
RBP: ffffffff8e407eb0 R08: ffff8880b863395b R09: 1ffff110170c672b
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170c672c R12: ffffffff901170b0
R13: 1ffffffff1c929d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/kernel/process.c:766 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x72/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1bd/0x500 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 rest_init+0x2de/0x300 init/main.c:760
 start_kernel+0x385/0x3d0 init/main.c:1210
 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>
net_ratelimit: 10913 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
net_ratelimit: 19207 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:7a:77:4b:16:bc:b4, vlan:0)

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/18 19:17 upstream 2961f841b025 77d4d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_execveat
2025/12/22 19:38 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 sys_execveat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.