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INFO: rcu detected stall in unix_stream_connect

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/25 09:43
Reported-by: syzbot+09f7db76df10783b57aa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d00h, last: 3d04h

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=8df/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=6658/6659 fqs=340 
	(t=10500 jiffies g=7269 q=566)
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9765 jiffies! g7269 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:27416 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2be/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9b/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:729
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 4299 Comm: syz.0.1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x22f/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:349
 print_cpu_stall+0x31d/0x5f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:633
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:727 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x6ea/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4ad/0xb70 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9b/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:__orc_find arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:52 [inline]
RIP: 0010:orc_find arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:178 [inline]
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0x107b/0x1d90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:448
Code: b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 0f b6 04 08 84 c0 75 27 49 63 06 4c 01 f0 49 8d 4e 04 48 39 e8 4c 0f 46 e9 49 8d 46 fc 4c 0f 47 e0 <4d> 0f 46 fe 4d 39 e5 76 a8 e9 be f1 ff ff 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000343f768 EFLAGS: 00000297
RAX: ffffffff8d97ef00 RBX: ffffc9000343f888 RCX: ffffffff8d97ef08
RDX: ffffffff8d97eefc RSI: ffffffff8e0356e8 RDI: ffffffff81350d2c
RBP: ffffffff81352c1d R08: 0000000000000005 R09: ffffc9000343f888
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000687f1d R12: ffffffff8d97ef0c
R13: ffffffff8d97ef08 R14: ffffffff8d97ef04 R15: ffffffff8d97eefc
 __unwind_start+0x5bb/0x740 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:704
 unwind_start arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h:60 [inline]
 arch_stack_walk+0xda/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:24
 stack_trace_save+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x8f/0x210 mm/slub.c:3520
 kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1118 [inline]
 unix_stream_connect+0xa38/0xf90 net/unix/af_unix.c:1502
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1932 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3cb/0x450 net/socket.c:1949
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1959 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1956 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x76/0x80 net/socket.c:1956
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fb5a60eccb9
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:00007fb5a4348028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb5a6367fa0 RCX: 00007fb5a60eccb9
RDX: 000000000000006e RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007fb5a615abf7 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb5a6368038 R14: 00007fb5a6367fa0 R15: 00007fff11ea9b18
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/26 05:16 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 55756628 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in unix_stream_connect
2026/01/25 09:42 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in unix_stream_connect
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.