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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat (4)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/22 03:48
Subsystems: tomoyo mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+5fb7dcd004f42cb418d7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 164d, last: 16d
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [tomoyo?] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat (4) 0 (2) 2025/12/24 15:25
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat 1 3 77d 144d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/12/14 02:05
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat (2) 1 2 7d03h 27d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/04/09 12:06
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat 1 1 316d 316d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/02 03:58
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat 1 7 31d 331d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/06/09 10:15
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat (2) mm 1 1 2310d 2310d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/08 05:33
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat mm 1 1 2345d 2345d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
Last patch testing requests (6)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/05/04 20:12 39m retest repro linux-next OK log
2026/05/04 20:12 32m retest repro linux-next report log
2026/01/31 11:47 57m retest repro linux-next report log
2026/01/31 11:36 54m retest repro linux-next report log
2026/01/31 08:56 28m retest repro linux-next report log
2026/01/31 08:56 36m retest repro linux-next OK log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5966/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=13749, q=681 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:24376 pid:5966  tgid:5966  ppid:5200   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5258 [inline]
 __schedule+0x150e/0x5070 kernel/sched/core.c:6866
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7193
 irqentry_exit+0x5d8/0x660 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x16c/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 30 f7 44 24 30 00 02 00 00 0f 85 cd 00 00 00 f7 44 24 08 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 65 48 8b 05 74 3f 25 11 <48> 3b 44 24 58 0f 85 e5 00 00 00 48 83 c4 60 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900035174d8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 550ae36b7d32a800 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 550ae36b7d32a800
RDX: 0000000002aa642d RSI: ffffffff8dc9133e RDI: ffffffff8be243e0
RBP: ffffffff81746f85 R08: ffffffff81746f85 R09: ffffffff8e33f8a0
R10: ffffc90003517698 R11: ffffffff81addf20 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8e33f8a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000246
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x23d0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6674 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c0/0x660 mm/slub.c:6882
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x598/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:286
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x213/0x4b0 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 security_inode_getattr+0x12f/0x330 security/security.c:1869
 vfs_getattr fs/stat.c:259 [inline]
 vfs_fstat fs/stat.c:281 [inline]
 __do_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:555 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:550 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstat+0xfc/0x200 fs/stat.c:550
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fcf92911ad7
RSP: 002b:00007ffe4ab44048 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000005
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005558e4439050 RCX: 00007fcf92911ad7
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffe4ab44090 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000620 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005558ba62e95f
R13: 00005558ba63f660 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000009
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10446 jiffies! g13749 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:27728 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5258 [inline]
 __schedule+0x150e/0x5070 kernel/sched/core.c:6866
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6948 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6963
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x599/0xb30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: 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 33 be 21 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <e9> 48 ee 02 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8e007d80 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: da29ab50f81b1900 RBX: ffffffff8197c88a RCX: da29ab50f81b1900
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8daa76bd RDI: ffffffff8be243e0
RBP: ffffffff8e007ea8 R08: ffff8880b86336db R09: 1ffff110170c66db
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170c66dc R12: ffffffff8fc3b070
R13: 1ffffffff1c129b8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881259e1000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b31163fff CR3: 0000000077280000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x73/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1ea/0x520 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x44/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 rest_init+0x2de/0x300 init/main.c:757
 start_kernel+0x3a7/0x400 init/main.c:1206
 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>

Crashes (20):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/18 09:53 linux-next 12b95d29eb97 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/04/13 09:51 upstream 028ef9c96e96 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/04/09 08:31 upstream 7f87a5ea75f0 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/03/31 22:43 upstream d0c3bcd5b897 aeea1c72 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/03/11 07:52 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/03/10 11:08 upstream 1f318b96cc84 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/02/12 15:23 upstream c22e26bd0906 76a109e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/02/12 12:34 upstream c22e26bd0906 76a109e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/02/04 10:00 upstream de0674d9bc69 42b01fab .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/01/17 06:28 upstream 39d3389331ab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2025/12/23 15:17 upstream b927546677c8 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2025/12/10 21:22 upstream 0048fbb4011e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2025/11/23 22:17 upstream d13f3ac64efb 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/04/20 14:38 net 0cf004ffb61c 303e2802 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/03/21 19:59 net-next fb78a629b4f0 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/02/21 14:34 linux-next d4906ae14a5f 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2026/01/04 22:30 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_newfstat
2026/01/01 22:15 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_newfstat
2025/12/24 15:24 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
2025/12/18 03:36 linux-next 12b95d29eb97 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.