INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/23 15:18
Reported-by: syzbot+af4540caba043c274f7f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 52d, last: 14d
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 249d 249d 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 syz, C done 60 11d 1221d 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 219d 1129d 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 syz, C done inconclusive 576 4d22h 2224d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/07/12 17:54
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime (2) 1 8 14d 101d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/05/05 16:49

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (0 ticks this GP) idle=9d44/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=41094/41095 fqs=0
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P11262/3:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=56153, q=197 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 11266 Comm: syz.1.1913 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:debug_object_activate+0xb/0x500 lib/debugobjects.c:734
Code: 0f 1e fa 80 3d 3d bb 53 0a 00 74 01 c3 ba 01 00 00 00 e9 98 fb ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 <41> 54 53 48 83 ec 28 31 c0 80 3d 0d bb 53 0a 00 0f 85 c8 03 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001f0cf8 EFLAGS: 00000006
RAX: ffffffff81778e85 RBX: ffff888024438340 RCX: ffff88802c1fbc00
RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: ffffffff8accc140 RDI: ffff888024438340
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200003e188 R12: ffff8880b8f2b940
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b8f2b940 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f1188da86c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f1187f87180 CR3: 000000005f0c9000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 debug_hrtimer_activate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:450 [inline]
 debug_activate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:504 [inline]
 enqueue_hrtimer+0x34/0x380 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1100
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1771 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x62f/0xc10 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1818
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x39d/0x980 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1880
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1077 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xfb/0x3b0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1094
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9f/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xc0/0x120 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> 3b 6f c6 f6 65 8b 05 9c 3d 6d 75 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000be67c80 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: dffffc0000000004 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: 726b0146386cbd00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acacbe0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000be67d10 R08: ffffffff8e8c7caf R09: 1ffffffff1d18f95
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d18f96 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffff8d14b5c0 R15: 1ffff920017ccf90
 do_settimeofday64+0x591/0x750 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:1342
 __do_sys_clock_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1130 [inline]
 __se_sys_clock_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1114 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clock_settime+0x25e/0x2a0 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1114
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f1187f9e019
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:00007f1188da8028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e3
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1188225fa0 RCX: 00007f1187f9e019
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000240 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f118803500c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1188226038 R14: 00007f1188225fa0 R15: 00007ffc6d5828c8
 </TASK>
task:modprobe        state:R  running task     stack:24360 pid:11262 ppid:4172   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6868
 preempt_schedule+0xc0/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6892
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:45
 __raw_spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock+0x3a/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186
 spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:391 [inline]
 filemap_map_pages+0x1279/0x19c0 mm/filemap.c:3675
 do_fault_around mm/memory.c:4595 [inline]
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:4628 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4775 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:3689 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5047 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5188 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x384b/0x4a50 mm/memory.c:5353
 do_user_addr_fault+0xad2/0x12d0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1322
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1463 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x64/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1516
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0033:0x7feddcf25230
RSP: 002b:00007ffcd2291628 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 00007feddd008120 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffffffffff98
RDX: ffffffffffffff90 RSI: 00007ffcd2291630 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffcd2291900 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000000e
R10: fffffffffffff68e R11: 0000000000000206 R12: fffffffffffffff8
R13: 000000c15b434fe6 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007feddd109310
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g56153 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:27848 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6775
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x30d/0x1590 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: 6e 1c 02 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d a3 7a 3b 00 fb f4 <c3> 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 50 8b 2f eb 2c 89 cb 80 f9
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8ce07d80 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: c1ad88d0c3856c00 RBX: ffffffff81630c41 RCX: c1ad88d0c3856c00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acacbe0 RDI: ffffffff8b1d0660
RBP: ffffffff8ce07eb8 R08: ffff8880b8e36bab R09: 1ffff110171c6d75
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6d76 R12: 1ffffffff19c0fbc
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffffffff19d2688 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f1187feb700 CR3: 000000005f0c9000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:178 [inline]
 do_idle+0x221/0x5c0 kernel/sched/idle.c:302
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 rest_init+0x2e2/0x300 init/main.c:744
 arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10 init/main.c:840
 start_kernel+0x461/0x4e0 init/main.c:1085
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:555
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x60/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:536
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/31 16:32 linux-6.6.y a1153c0deb44 7664cf44 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/07/11 05:55 linux-6.6.y da47cbc25466 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/07/10 04:05 linux-6.6.y da47cbc25466 4167ee25 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/07/09 16:09 linux-6.6.y da47cbc25466 a0c310a3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/06/23 15:20 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 4b1d8f01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
2026/06/23 15:18 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 4b1d8f01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clock_settime
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.