INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/08/31 02:33
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+455cf6d72dfed822de56@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 895d, last: 39m
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c9d76407 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise (2) 2026/05/22 03:25 2026/05/22 03:25 2026/05/22 03:32 d5742584
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[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise (2) 0 (1) 2025/08/31 02:33
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise (2) 1 1 468d 468d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/17 02:28
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise 1 2 337d 339d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/26 08:47
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise scsi 1 1 1139d 1139d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/05 19:10
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise 1 1 810d 810d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/10 08:27
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise 1 1 627d 627d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/11 11:19
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_madvise 1 1 909d 909d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/23 02:57
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in sys_madvise 1 1 1598d 1598d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/09/03 05:10
linux-4.19 BUG: soft lockup in sys_madvise (2) 1 1 1464d 1464d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/14 20:18

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6324/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=19445, q=421154 ncpus=2)
task:syz.0.145       state:R  running task     stack:24776 pid:6324  tgid:6308  ppid:5634   task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5526 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17db/0x58f0 kernel/sched/core.c:7277
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4b/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7599
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x910 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x2e1/0x3c0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5968
Code: 02 f2 11 00 00 00 00 eb b5 e8 bb 62 42 0a f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 b9 65 48 8b 05 13 be f1 11 48 3b 44 24 28 75 48 fb 48 83 c4 30 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d 78 29 da
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e6d68c8 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: 4b48f77878e38200 RBX: 0000000000000206 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: ffffc9000e6d6901 RSI: ffffffff8e69d180 RDI: ffffffff8c6da780
RBP: ffff88802a2dca30 R08: ffffc9000e6d6ad0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000e6d69f8 R11: fffff52001cdad41 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8ed5c8e0 R15: ffff88802a2dbe80
 rcu_lock_release include/linux/rcupdate.h:319 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:880 [inline]
 class_rcu_destructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1216 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0x1baa/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:709
 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:183
 __reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:338
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc93/0xd90 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
 __folio_put+0x4b3/0x590 mm/folio.c:106
 folio_put_refs include/linux/mm.h:2180 [inline]
 collapse_file mm/khugepaged.c:2643 [inline]
 collapse_scan_file+0x41d8/0x5180 mm/khugepaged.c:2772
 collapse_single_pmd+0x2a2/0x3c50 mm/khugepaged.c:2807
 madvise_collapse+0x2cf/0x790 mm/khugepaged.c:3231
 madvise_vma_behavior+0x1174/0x41d0 mm/madvise.c:1372
 madvise_walk_vmas+0x576/0xb00 mm/madvise.c:1721
 madvise_do_behavior+0x385/0x540 mm/madvise.c:1916
 do_madvise+0x327/0x3a0 mm/madvise.c:2014
 __do_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:2023 [inline]
 __se_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:2021 [inline]
 __x64_sys_madvise+0xa6/0xc0 mm/madvise.c:2021
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2f3cf9e159
RSP: 002b:00007f2f3dd84028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000001c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2f3d226180 RCX: 00007f2f3cf9e159
RDX: 0000000000000019 RSI: 0000000000600000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f2f3d03506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2f3d226218 R14: 00007f2f3d226180 R15: 00007f2f3d34fa48
 </TASK>
ip6_tunnel: ip6tnl1 xmit: Local address not yet configured!

Crashes (63):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/20 14:31 upstream 518e5b794c06 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/08/28 04:06 upstream 18fbf5151d2c e2fa417d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/08/04 10:29 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/07/03 03:59 upstream 87320be9f0d2 58bf2096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/06/28 14:02 upstream 780d569e6c4b fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/05/20 13:21 upstream 27fa82620cba 62fb93a2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/05/16 18:33 upstream 6916d5703ddf a15a64a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/05/04 02:39 upstream f377d0025eb0 a0d91488 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/04/23 02:05 upstream 2a4c0c11c019 b10da5ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/04/20 23:21 upstream c1f49dea2b8f e65da4ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/04/13 15:17 upstream 028ef9c96e96 9530ccf9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/04/04 06:54 upstream 631919fb12fe 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/03/24 03:01 upstream c369299895a5 baf8bf12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/03/20 09:21 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/03/13 21:20 upstream 0257f64bdac7 351cb5cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/03/13 07:56 upstream 8004279c41ad 2f7f359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/03/08 10:45 upstream c23719abc330 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/03/05 18:11 upstream c107785c7e8d d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/02/28 14:24 upstream 4d349ee5c778 43249bac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/02/22 06:17 upstream 32a92f8c8932 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/02/13 21:16 upstream cee73b1e840c 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/02/03 14:13 upstream 6bd9ed02871f 6df4c87a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/02/01 04:55 upstream 162b42445b58 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/01/29 22:57 upstream 8dfce8991b95 bfa73b7b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2026/01/20 16:31 upstream 24d479d26b25 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/12/23 17:48 upstream b927546677c8 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/11/21 16:04 upstream fd95357fd8c6 52ed5c96 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/10/27 22:25 upstream fd57572253bc fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/10/27 01:33 upstream dbfc6422a34d c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/10/23 08:22 upstream 250a17e8f955 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/08/14 04:24 upstream dfc0f6373094 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/06/24 08:47 upstream 78f4e737a53e 1a7fb460 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/04/17 10:04 upstream cfb2e2c57aef 2a6ededb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/03/30 19:20 upstream 7f2ff7b62617 d3999433 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/03/14 01:34 upstream 4003c9e78778 e2826670 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/03/04 23:14 upstream 99fa936e8e4f c3901742 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/02/22 04:58 upstream ff202c5028a1 d34966d1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/01/01 10:53 upstream ccb98ccef0e5 d3ccff63 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/12/10 17:43 upstream 7cb1b4663150 cfc402b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/12/10 15:00 upstream 7cb1b4663150 cfc402b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/10/13 20:50 upstream cfea70e835b9 084d8178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/09/25 22:27 upstream aa486552a110 349a68c4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/09/13 01:53 upstream 196145c606d0 60e1a995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/09/07 22:34 upstream b31c44928842 9750182a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/09/07 16:53 upstream b31c44928842 9750182a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/09/04 19:41 upstream c7fb1692dc01 9d47f20a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/08/29 11:21 upstream 928f79a188aa ef3de9e8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/07/04 17:44 upstream 795c58e4c7fc dc6bbff0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/06/27 04:18 upstream 24ca36a562d6 880c1ca1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/06/14 07:05 upstream 2ccbdf43d5e7 a9616ff5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/06/13 21:00 upstream 2ccbdf43d5e7 a9616ff5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/06/04 13:19 upstream f06ce441457d a1feae05 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/05/14 18:44 upstream a5131c3fdf26 fdb4c10c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/04/08 13:39 upstream fe46a7dd189e ca620dd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/09/16 02:54 upstream 46a51f4f5eda e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/09/11 05:53 upstream 7aac71907bde fdeaa69b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/08/27 02:25 upstream fab1beda7597 e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/10/09 21:42 upstream 75b607fab38d 0278d004 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/11/28 17:06 linux-next 7d31f578f323 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/08/01 14:40 linux-next 84b92a499e7e 40127d41 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2025/05/23 03:08 linux-next 460178e842c7 fa44301a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/11/29 23:26 linux-next f486c8aa16b8 68914665 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
2024/06/08 11:09 linux-next d35b2284e966 82c05ab8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_madvise
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.