INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/09 00:30
Reported-by: syzbot+b19416715e13f5a1b74f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d05h, last: 3d05h
Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff (6) fs 1 6 722d 818d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/18 09:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff (5) mm fs 1 2 1142d 1172d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/25 16:56
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff 1 syz error 2 1969d 2038d 0/1 upstream: reported syz repro on 2021/02/11 18:33
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff 1 1 1068d 1068d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/17 20:08
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff (2) 1 10 494d 799d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/14 00:27
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff (4) 1 1 29d 29d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/13 09:40
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff (4) mm 1 1 1269d 1269d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/21 07:37
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff crypto 1 3 1763d 1771d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff (3) mm 1 1 1460d 1460d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/12/11 19:43
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff (3) 1 9 167d 354d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/07 03:07
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff (2) kernel 1 1 1659d 1659d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/26 19:52

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P18525/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=139357, q=380 ncpus=1)
task:modprobe        state:R  running task     stack:24360 pid:18525 ppid:1030   flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbf/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7011
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x208/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3c 04 f8 0f 85 f0 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3c 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3c 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000bb5fd20 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: eb59ac510526c500
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acade60 RDI: ffffffff8b1d35e0
RBP: ffffc9000bb5fe30 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff223dea0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff223dea1 R12: 1ffff9200176bfb0
R13: ffffffff8d1320e0 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 __fget_files+0x45/0x460 fs/file.c:891
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x213/0x720 mm/mmap.c:1402
 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: 0033:0x7fbecf9da242
RSP: 002b:00007ffe3a4845d8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbecf6f6000 RCX: 00007fbecf9da242
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000002000 RDI: 00007fbecf6f6000
RBP: 0000000000000812 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000b000
R10: 0000000000000812 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffe3a484660
R13: 00007fbecf9b7580 R14: 00007ffe3a484a50 R15: 00000fffc74908be
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10500 jiffies! g139357 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:27696 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: 18467 Comm: syz.6.3726 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:160 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x29/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:202
Code: 00 f3 0f 1e fa 53 48 89 fb 48 83 c7 18 48 8b 74 24 08 e8 aa 95 cf f6 48 89 df e8 52 69 d0 f6 e8 2d 71 f4 f6 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> 62 77 c3 f6 65 8b 05 83 35 6a 75 85 c0 74 02 5b c3 e8 70 1a 67
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b9f7c78 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 775ac36377c0e600 RBX: ffff88807ce61bc0 RCX: 775ac36377c0e600
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acacce0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8e8c8daf R09: 1ffffffff1d191b5
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d191b6 R12: 0000000000000011
R13: ffff88807ce61e58 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000004000000
FS:  00007fa7fddd26c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa049876d58 CR3: 000000006a70e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock.h:401 [inline]
 get_signal+0x1197/0x1390 kernel/signal.c:2914
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc2/0x7b0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:310
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fa7fcf9e159
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:00007fa7fddd2028 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007fa7fd225fa0 RCX: 00007fa7fcf9e159
RDX: 0000200000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007fa7fd03503b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa7fd226038 R14: 00007fa7fd225fa0 R15: 00007ffd168e85b8
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/09 00:29 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f 243b72f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_pgoff
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.