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INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/28 08:04
Reported-by: syzbot+7b6231b213ccddf36bc3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 144d, last: 15d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl (2) 1 1 1d05h 1d05h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/06/20 16:30
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl 1 1 183d 183d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/30 11:32

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=863/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=6623/6624 fqs=0 
	(t=10502 jiffies g=7077 q=33)
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10503 jiffies! g7077 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:28016 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:
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: 4343 Comm: syz.0.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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: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:lock_release+0x5a4/0x8a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5647
Code: 80 00 00 00 f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 2c 04 f8 75 6f 41 f7 c7 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 2c 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 2c 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032af640 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: bf111bf2721b5600
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b4420 RDI: ffffffff8a7a09c0
RBP: ffffc900032af750 R08: ffffffff8d8a06ef R09: 1ffffffff1b140dd
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1b140de R12: 1ffff92000655ed4
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88802bcac660 R15: 0000000000000246
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:773 [inline]
 is_bpf_text_address+0x254/0x270 kernel/bpf/core.c:727
 kernel_text_address kernel/extable.c:151 [inline]
 __kernel_text_address+0x9a/0x100 kernel/extable.c:105
 unwind_get_return_address+0x49/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:323
 arch_stack_walk+0xf2/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 stack_trace_save+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x9c/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:467
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x100/0x290 mm/slub.c:3238
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:728 [inline]
 locks_alloc_lock fs/locks.c:346 [inline]
 fcntl_setlk+0xa5/0xfc0 fs/locks.c:2449
 do_fcntl+0x533/0x1360 fs/fcntl.c:373
 __do_sys_fcntl fs/fcntl.c:466 [inline]
 __se_sys_fcntl+0xcc/0x190 fs/fcntl.c:451
 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: 0033:0x7fead9fe4e59
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:00007fead823e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000048
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007feada25dfa0 RCX: 00007fead9fe4e59
RDX: 0000200000000280 RSI: 0000000000000026 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007feada07ad6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007feada25e038 R14: 00007feada25dfa0 R15: 00007ffd66df00f8
 </TASK>

Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/06 17:21 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl
2026/06/06 17:18 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl
2026/05/30 00:40 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl
2026/05/28 04:03 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 fcntl
2026/03/06 10:47 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 31e9c887 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl
2026/02/28 14:18 linux-5.15.y 3330a8d33e08 43249bac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl
2026/02/12 22:45 linux-5.15.y e45d5d41c134 504cb1bf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl
2026/01/28 08:04 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 3029c699 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in fcntl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.