INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/22 06:08
Reported-by: syzbot+b98205de49d8b623e209@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 56d, last: 1d22h
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk 1 1 821d 821d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/25 23:34
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk (4) prio:high kernel 1 syz error 2 48d 47d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/06/30 21:43
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk 1 1 338d 338d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/21 20:33
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk (2) 1 1 229d 229d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/10 03:12
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk kernel 1 4 743d 785d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/01 23:14
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk (3) kernel 1 1 221d 221d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/07 23:53
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk (2) kernel 1 2 607d 652d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/18 05:25

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	1-....: (10467 ticks this GP) idle=d184/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=234498/234501 fqs=4438
rcu: 	         hardirqs   softirqs   csw/system
rcu: 	 number:  1109035          0            0
rcu: 	cputime:    19436      33043           36   ==> 52480(ms)
rcu: 	(t=10500 jiffies g=305061 q=1569 ncpus=2)
CPU: 1 PID: 19260 Comm: syz.2.12890 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:should_resched arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:104 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__local_bh_enable_ip+0x142/0x1c0 kernel/softirq.c:413
Code: 8a e8 f2 53 3c 09 65 66 8b 05 ba eb b0 7e 66 85 c0 75 54 bf 01 00 00 00 e8 2b 1d 0a 00 e8 56 16 3b 00 fb 65 8b 05 86 eb b0 7e <85> c0 75 05 e8 35 d0 ad ff 48 c7 04 24 0e 36 e0 45 4b c7 04 37 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001f0400 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 0000000000000101 RBX: 0000000000000201 RCX: 434292af9764f400
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acacbe0 RDI: ffffffff8b1d32e0
RBP: ffffc900001f0490 R08: ffffffff8e8c772f R09: 1ffffffff1d18ee5
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d18ee6 R12: ffffffff8a091cf6
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff9200003e080
FS:  00007f2e733f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8a3192eff8 CR3: 000000007b4a9000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000200000000300 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_handlers+0xb3e6/0xb450 net/mac80211/rx.c:4162
 ieee80211_invoke_rx_handlers net/mac80211/rx.c:4184 [inline]
 ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x27de/0x6080 net/mac80211/rx.c:5042
 ieee80211_rx_for_interface net/mac80211/rx.c:5127 [inline]
 __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet net/mac80211/rx.c:5300 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_list+0x28d4/0x3240 net/mac80211/rx.c:5439
 ieee80211_rx_napi+0x1ae/0x3c0 net/mac80211/rx.c:5462
 ieee80211_rx include/net/mac80211.h:4971 [inline]
 ieee80211_handle_queued_frames+0x105/0x190 net/mac80211/main.c:319
 tasklet_action_common+0x2d4/0x460 kernel/softirq.c:809
 handle_softirqs+0x27d/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:612 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:452 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xd3/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:661
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:673
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 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:lock_is_held_type+0x13e/0x190 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5830
Code: 75 40 48 c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 04 24 f7 04 24 00 02 00 00 75 46 41 f7 c5 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 <48> 3b 44 24 08 75 3c 89 e8 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000f02fa78 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 434292af9764f400 RBX: ffff888029099e00 RCX: 434292af9764f400
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acadd60 RDI: ffffffff8b1d32e0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffc9000f02fc5f R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000f02fc50 R11: fffff52001e05f8c R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000246 R14: ffffffff8d131e60 R15: 00000000ffffffff
 lock_is_held include/linux/lockdep.h:288 [inline]
 schedule_debug kernel/sched/core.c:5959 [inline]
 __schedule+0x25c/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6592
 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_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:160 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x40/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:202
 task_work_run+0x197/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:241
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 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: 0033:0x7f2e7519e0d9
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:00007f2e733f6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012a
RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: 00007f2e75425fa0 RCX: 00007f2e7519e0d9
RDX: ffffffffffffffff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000200000000140
RBP: 00007f2e75235024 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2e75426038 R14: 00007f2e75425fa0 R15: 00007ffdb15588f8
 </TASK>

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/15 20:48 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk
2026/08/02 07:01 linux-6.6.y a1153c0deb44 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk
2026/06/22 06:07 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in preempt_schedule_thunk
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.