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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/05 16:49
Reported-by: syzbot+61069fb15c7f6969fd52@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 53d, last: 30d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime 1 1 201d 201d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/19 03:29
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime origin:lts-only 1 C done 59 37d 1173d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/04/11 17:25
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime 1 43 171d 1081d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/17 23:52
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime prio:normal kernel 1 C done inconclusive 542 3d15h 2176d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/07/12 17:54
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime (2) 1 2 4d18h 4d18h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/06/23 15:18

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=0d7/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=68376/68377 fqs=128 
	(detected by 0, t=10505 jiffies, g=113737, q=743)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 14325 Comm: syz.3.2341 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:__kasan_check_read+0x6/0x10 mm/kasan/shadow.c:31
Code: 41 5f 5d c3 48 c7 c7 47 f8 de 8b eb 0a 48 c7 c7 86 24 c5 8b 48 89 de e8 68 db f3 07 31 ed eb d7 00 00 cc cc 89 f6 48 8b 0c 24 <31> d2 e9 43 ef ff ff 0f 1f 00 89 f6 48 8b 0c 24 ba 01 00 00 00 e9
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dd08f8 EFLAGS: 00000002
RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 000000000000005e RCX: ffffffff815d2b0c
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff901d60c8
RBP: ffffc90000dd0b50 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff203ac19
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203ac1a R12: abe92a66ad81a2ce
R13: ffff888050239dc0 R14: 00000000ad81a2ce R15: ffff88805023a8d0
FS:  00007f42595046c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2fa1effc CR3: 0000000026175000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
 test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:134 [inline]
 hlock_class kernel/locking/lockdep.c:197 [inline]
 lookup_chain_cache_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3700 [inline]
 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3756 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0x13bc/0x7d10 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5012
 lock_acquire+0x19e/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5623
 __raw_spin_lock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:128 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irq+0xab/0xf0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:170
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1689 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x5a9/0xb70 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:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xbc/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f7 44 24 20 00 02 00 00 41 c6 04 07 f8 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> bf 2a 8c f7 65 8b 05 f0 26 3c 76 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000337fc80 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: dffffc0000000004 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: 0131646a4148bb00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b3100 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000337fd10 R08: ffffffff8c331783 R09: 1ffffffff18662f0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff18662f1 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffff8c331780 R15: 1ffff9200066ff90
 do_settimeofday64+0x5ac/0x760 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:1325
 __do_sys_clock_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1125 [inline]
 __se_sys_clock_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1113 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clock_settime+0x25a/0x2a0 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1113
 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: 0033:0x7f425b2cbe59
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:00007f4259504028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e3
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f425b545090 RCX: 00007f425b2cbe59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000240 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f425b361d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f425b545128 R14: 00007f425b545090 R15: 00007ffe20c224c8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9815 jiffies! g113737 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:28112 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:2117
 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:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 13038 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-8:0)
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_check_gp_kthread_starvation+0x1cd/0x250 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:487
 print_other_cpu_stall+0x1110/0x1270 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x843/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021
 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+0x4b4/0xb70 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:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:440 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xbb5/0xd90 kernel/smp.c:969
Code: b6 44 05 00 84 c0 0f 85 9d 00 00 00 41 8b 1c 24 89 de 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 d9 62 0b 00 83 e3 01 75 07 e8 6f 5f 0b 00 eb 43 f3 90 <48> b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 0f b6 44 05 00 84 c0 75 11 41 f7
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000313e680 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff816dd6c8 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88802a045940
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000313e7c0 R08: ffff8880b913b407 R09: 1ffff11017227680
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017227681 R12: ffff8880b91405c8
R13: 1ffff110172280b9 R14: ffff8880b903b3c0 R15: 0000000000000001
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3b/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1134
 __flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:87 [inline]
 flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:946 [inline]
 flush_tlb_mm_range+0x365/0x580 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1034
 flush_tlb_page arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h:240 [inline]
 ptep_clear_flush+0x112/0x140 mm/pgtable-generic.c:97
 page_mkclean_one+0x1eb/0x3e0 mm/rmap.c:938
 rmap_walk_file+0x408/0x610 mm/rmap.c:2378
 rmap_walk mm/rmap.c:2396 [inline]
 page_mkclean+0x2f4/0x400 mm/rmap.c:1006
 clear_page_dirty_for_io+0x3f8/0x9f0 mm/page-writeback.c:2749
 mpage_submit_page+0x8a/0x210 fs/ext4/inode.c:2095
 mpage_process_page_bufs+0x6d8/0x8b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2229
 mpage_prepare_extent_to_map+0xbc2/0xfe0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2657
 ext4_writepages+0xa9a/0x2df0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2785
 do_writepages+0x476/0x6e0 mm/page-writeback.c:2386
 __writeback_single_inode+0x153/0xda0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1657
 writeback_sb_inodes+0xa4e/0x1680 fs/fs-writeback.c:1940
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x12a/0x3f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2011
 wb_writeback+0x46f/0xbe0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2116
 wb_check_old_data_flush fs/fs-writeback.c:2216 [inline]
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2269 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0xb15/0xf20 fs/fs-writeback.c:2298
 process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa6/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/29 03:01 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c 4624854e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/05/28 14:23 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c 681715f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/05/28 02:13 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c 4c36e7e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/05/25 16:46 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/05/07 22:23 linux-5.15.y ef251c45f1cd cbf9e0fc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/05/06 03:27 linux-5.15.y ef251c45f1cd 26da2c66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/05/05 16:48 linux-5.15.y ef251c45f1cd 06e69a27 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.