rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: rcu: (detected by 1, t=10504 jiffies, g=17037, q=1137 ncpus=2) rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 9995 (4294968331-4294958336), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x0 rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9995 jiffies! g17037 f0x2 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=R ->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:28984 pid:17 tgid:17 ppid:2 task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5533 [inline] __schedule+0x1259/0x6920 kernel/sched/core.c:7284 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7361 [inline] schedule+0xdd/0x2c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7376 schedule_timeout+0x127/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1a9/0x8f0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2122 rcu_gp_kthread+0x17a/0x220 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2330 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 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: 966 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/05/2026 Workqueue: events_power_efficient gc_worker RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:107 [inline] RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2170 [inline] RIP: 0010:atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1302 [inline] RIP: 0010:queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:112 [inline] RIP: 0010:do_raw_spin_lock+0x139/0x260 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:116 Code: 28 00 00 00 00 e8 17 fd 97 00 be 04 00 00 00 48 8d 7c 24 28 e8 08 fd 97 00 8b 44 24 28 ba 01 00 00 00 89 44 24 04 f0 0f b1 13 <0f> 85 93 00 00 00 48 89 ea 65 44 8b 35 9e 51 a5 12 48 b8 00 00 00 RSP: 0000:ffffc90000007d48 EFLAGS: 00000046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88803530d2a8 RCX: ffffffff81e7ce78 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffc90000007d70 RBP: ffff88803530d2b0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff52000000fae R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 1ffff92000000faa R13: ffff88803530d2b8 R14: ffff8880b8428640 R15: ffff8880b8428690 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888123b4e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000558d74db7000 CR3: 000000000eb96000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 Call Trace: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:347 [inline] advance_sched+0xe5/0xd20 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:931 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2074 [inline] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x462/0x9c0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2131 hrtimer_interrupt+0x441/0xaa0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2250 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1051 [inline] __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x109/0x470 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1068 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9e/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674 RIP: 0010:__seqprop_spinlock_sequence include/linux/seqlock.h:228 [inline] RIP: 0010:nf_conntrack_get_ht include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:348 [inline] RIP: 0010:gc_worker+0x2bf/0x1a10 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1534 Code: 00 00 48 c7 c7 28 0e 46 91 e8 3d 7e f8 f7 9c 5b 81 e3 00 02 00 00 31 ff 48 89 de e8 fb 45 1d f8 58 48 85 db 0f 85 32 13 00 00 4c 4b 1d f8 8b 1d 76 11 57 07 89 dd 31 ff 83 e5 01 89 ee e8 a8 RSP: 0000:ffffc90004f3fb28 EFLAGS: 00000293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff8880275c8000 RSI: ffffffff89ef0a80 RDI: ffff8880275c8000 RBP: ffff888026000000 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: dffffc0000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000040000 R15: 0000000000017030 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline] worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245