INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/04/25 20:23
Reported-by: syzbot+7d56c691ce261944ee2a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 126d, last: 1d05h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy 1 5 33d 153d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/03/29 06:28
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in inet_frag_destroy (2) 1 1 529d 529d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/15 23:42
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in inet_frag_destroy 1 3 793d 802d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/25 04:36

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=759/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=34550/34551 fqs=5245 
	(t=10501 jiffies g=47773 q=3323)
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 13588 Comm: syz.2.2921 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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+0x22d/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:349
 print_cpu_stall+0x31f/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+0x6ec/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+0x4b0/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x397/0x8b0 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+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 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> ef 90 88 f7 65 8b 05 60 a8 38 76 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000078c0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: dffffc0000000004 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: f00cf8b46f545c00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc90000007940 R08: ffffffff901ef22f R09: 1ffffffff203de45
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203de46 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888078d63a00 R14: ffffffff9654ebe8 R15: 1ffff92000000f18
 __debug_check_no_obj_freed lib/debugobjects.c:999 [inline]
 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x471/0x520 lib/debugobjects.c:1020
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1685 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x8b/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:655 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x667/0x830 net/core/skbuff.c:677
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:742 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:756 [inline]
 kfree_skb_reason+0xaf/0x110 net/core/skbuff.c:776
 kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1118 [inline]
 inet_frag_rbtree_purge net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:280 [inline]
 inet_frag_destroy+0x13a/0x230 net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:300
 call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1648
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1699 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x56c/0x810 kernel/time/timer.c:1970
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1983
 handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 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:finish_lock_switch+0x12f/0x290 kernel/sched/core.c:4804
Code: 83 c7 18 be ff ff ff ff e8 0e fb 6b 08 85 c0 74 46 4d 85 ff 75 62 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 df e8 c8 6a 75 08 e8 33 dd 2a 00 fb 5b <41> 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 89 df e8 2f 0e fe ff 43 80 3c 2c
RSP: 0018:ffffc900038df7b8 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: f00cf8b46f545c00 RBX: ffff88807c9cbb80 RCX: f00cf8b46f545c00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: ffffffff8a7a43c0
RBP: 1ffff11017207613 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: 1ffff110172075c1
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b903ae08 R15: 0000000000000000
 finish_task_switch+0x12f/0x650 kernel/sched/core.c:4921
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5052 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11cb/0x4350 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 freezable_schedule include/linux/freezer.h:172 [inline]
 futex_wait_queue_me+0x22b/0x440 kernel/futex/core.c:2866
 futex_wait+0x256/0x680 kernel/futex/core.c:2967
 do_futex+0xdc2/0x12b0 kernel/futex/core.c:4018
 __do_sys_futex kernel/futex/core.c:4095 [inline]
 __se_sys_futex+0x389/0x420 kernel/futex/core.c:4076
 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: 0033:0x7fca0f860159
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:00007fca0dab80e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fca0fae7fa8 RCX: 00007fca0f860159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007fca0fae7fa8
RBP: 00007fca0fae7fa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fca0fae8038 R14: 00007ffca44d59d0 R15: 00007ffca44d5ab8
 </TASK>

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/28 18:15 linux-5.15.y 28c35638ec51 e2fa417d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
2026/07/31 04:23 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
2026/04/25 20:22 linux-5.15.y b9d57c40a767 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.