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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/07/18 08:32
Reported-by: syzbot+426bd78d8547d0759eee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 195d, last: 13d
Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg (3) mm 1 227 4d14h 772d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2023/12/19 09:31
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg (3) 1 16 34d 430d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/11/26 05:10
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg 1 C error 1 1134d 1134d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/12/23 04:58
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg missing-backport origin:upstream 1 C done 63 6d23h 1030d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/04/06 01:32
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg (2) 1 5 533d 665d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/22 11:58
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg mptcp 1 C done 52 1459d 1591d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/08 16:11
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg 1 5 911d 1042d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/11 06:06
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg (2) net 1 4 1220d 1250d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/03 09:53
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_recvmmsg 1 5 553d 646d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/23 09:30

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P29524/1:b..l P29508/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=198973, q=73 ncpus=2)
task:syz.9.5810      state:R  running task     stack:25800 pid:29508 ppid:18182  flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbf/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7010
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x208/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3c 04 f8 0f 85 f0 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3c 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3c 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b9eef40 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: e98d946e5af13e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acace80 RDI: ffffffff8b1c74a0
RBP: ffffc9000b9ef048 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff22346a0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff22346a1 R12: 1ffff9200173ddf4
R13: ffffffff8d12ffe0 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 page_ext_get+0x3e/0x2b0 mm/page_ext.c:508
 __page_table_check_zero+0x138/0x4b0 mm/page_table_check.c:148
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1951/0x19e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
 __folio_alloc+0x10/0x20 mm/page_alloc.c:4489
 vma_alloc_folio+0x47a/0x8f0 mm/mempolicy.c:2242
 wp_page_copy mm/memory.c:3090 [inline]
 do_wp_page+0x1243/0x35f0 mm/memory.c:3469
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5063 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5188 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x135d/0x4c00 mm/memory.c:5353
 do_user_addr_fault+0x730/0x12c0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1373
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1465 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x64/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1521
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0010:__put_user_nocheck_4+0x7/0x10 arch/x86/lib/putuser.S:98
Code: 01 ca c3 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 cb 48 c1 fb 3f 48 09 d9 0f 01 cb 89 01 31 c9 0f 01 ca c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 01 cb <89> 01 31 c9 0f 01 ca c3 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 cb 48 c1 fb 3f 48 09
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b9ef8d8 EFLAGS: 00050202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000200000135030
RDX: ffff888018f0da00 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffc9000b9efa70 R08: ffffc9000b9ef6a7 R09: 1ffff9200173ded4
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200173ded5 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000004d3d R15: 0000200000135000
 ____sys_recvmsg+0x3ba/0x5e0 net/socket.c:2826
 ___sys_recvmsg+0x216/0x590 net/socket.c:2855
 do_recvmmsg+0x39a/0x870 net/socket.c:2949
 __sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3028 [inline]
 __do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3051 [inline]
 __se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3044 [inline]
 __x64_sys_recvmmsg+0x199/0x250 net/socket.c:3044
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fb5f499acb9
RSP: 002b:00007fb5f589e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012b
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb5f4c16090 RCX: 00007fb5f499acb9
RDX: 0000000000010106 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fb5f4a08bf7 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb5f4c16128 R14: 00007fb5f4c16090 R15: 00007fffd4869948
 </TASK>
task:syz.3.5816      state:R  running task     stack:25800 pid:29524 ppid:13396  flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6867
 preempt_schedule+0xc0/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6891
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:45
 __raw_spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock+0x3a/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186
 spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:391 [inline]
 zap_pte_range mm/memory.c:1523 [inline]
 zap_pmd_range mm/memory.c:1571 [inline]
 zap_pud_range mm/memory.c:1600 [inline]
 zap_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1621 [inline]
 unmap_page_range+0x2315/0x3000 mm/memory.c:1642
 unmap_vmas+0x286/0x3f0 mm/memory.c:1732
 exit_mmap+0x238/0xb90 mm/mmap.c:3302
 __mmput+0x118/0x3c0 kernel/fork.c:1355
 exit_mm+0x1f2/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:569
 do_exit+0x8dd/0x2460 kernel/exit.c:870
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1024
 get_signal+0x12fc/0x13f0 kernel/signal.c:2902
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc2/0x800 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:310
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f93f159acb9
RSP: 002b:00007f93f24200e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00007f93f1815fa8 RCX: 00007f93f159acb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f93f1815fa8
RBP: 00007f93f1815fa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f93f1816038 R14: 00007ffca27b23f0 R15: 00007ffca27b24d8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10386 jiffies! g198973 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:27312 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6774
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x313/0x1590 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: 27 24 02 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 63 b5 45 00 fb f4 <c3> 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 50 8b 2f eb 2e 41 89 de 80
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000187de0 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 804439b0daebcb00 RBX: ffffffff81629570 RCX: 804439b0daebcb00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acabd00 RDI: ffffffff8b1c74a0
RBP: ffffc90000187f20 R08: ffff8880b8f36b2b R09: 1ffff110171e6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6d66 R12: 1ffff110036ce780
R13: 1ffff92000030fc8 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b30422ff8 CR3: 0000000026e76000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:170 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1f0/0x4e0 kernel/sched/idle.c:282
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:380
 start_secondary+0xee/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:323
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/17 07:07 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg
2025/10/27 23:55 linux-6.6.y 4a243110dc88 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg
2025/10/19 13:47 linux-6.6.y 0bbbd97a442d 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg
2025/10/17 17:57 linux-6.6.y 0bbbd97a442d 7adf5298 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg
2025/09/21 04:05 linux-6.6.y af1544b5d072 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg
2025/08/06 05:44 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a ffe1dd46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg
2025/07/18 08:32 linux-6.6.y d96eb99e2f0e 88248e14 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_recvmmsg
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.