INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/10 20:40
Reported-by: syzbot+e56fb7f0a6923e2175ba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 137d, last: 12h07m
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (4) prio:high mm tomoyo 1 syz, C error 638 3d02h 1431d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/10/25 00:38
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat origin:upstream 1 syz, C done 8 657d 1194d 3/3 fixed on 2025/01/19 08:56
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (2) origin:lts-only 1 syz inconclusive 7 37d 575d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/02/26 19:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (2) origin:lts-only 1 syz, C done 16 82d 385d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/04 12:06
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat mm cgroups 1 1 2487d 2487d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat 1 19 507d 900d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/14 00:29
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat 1 7 242d 344d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/05 12:53
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (2) kernfs 1 1 1686d 1686d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/13 02:53
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in newfstatat (3) usb 1 syz, C done 276 7h04m 1203d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/06/10 09:07
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (3) tomoyo 1 1 1573d 1573d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/03 09:55
upstream BUG: workqueue lockup (5) prio:low kernel 1 syz, C done 17826 43m 2445d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/01/14 22:04

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5141/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10504 jiffies, g=21501, q=243 ncpus=2)
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:23208 pid:5141  ppid:1      flags:0x00004002
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:441
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:180 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x30/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:212
Code: 04 24 65 48 8b 0d a0 2c 7c 7e 65 8b 15 a1 2c 7c 7e 81 e2 00 01 ff 00 74 11 81 fa 00 01 00 00 75 35 83 b9 24 16 00 00 00 74 2c <8b> 91 00 16 00 00 83 fa 02 75 21 48 8b 91 08 16 00 00 48 8b 32 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032f75a0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff81eb11c1 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: ffff88807de19e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff88801bc52d3f R09: 1ffff1100378a5a7
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100378a5a8 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 1ffffffff2e6b948 R14: ffff88801bc52d40 R15: 0000000000000003
 __page_table_check_zero+0x291/0x4b0 mm/page_table_check.c:160
 page_table_check_free include/linux/page_table_check.h:41 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1183 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7e6/0x8f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2366
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2459
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2127 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1cf/0x210 mm/slub.c:2667
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2743
 __slab_free+0x319/0x400 mm/slub.c:3700
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6a/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:770
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x194/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa7/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe6/0x5c0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x282/0x560 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 security_inode_getattr+0xd3/0x120 security/security.c:2190
 vfs_getattr fs/stat.c:173 [inline]
 vfs_statx+0x172/0x680 fs/stat.c:248
 vfs_fstatat+0x12a/0x1b0 fs/stat.c:299
 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:463 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:457 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x149/0x1f0 fs/stat.c:457
 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: 0033:0x7fb853311b0a
RSP: 002b:00007fff96acf148 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000106
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055726b2a0400 RCX: 00007fb853311b0a
RDX: 00007fff96acf150 RSI: 000055726b28e296 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 000055728a292148 R08: 000000000da85b6f R09: 0000000000745d1e
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007fff96acf150 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
net_ratelimit: 487 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:ea:e6:88:25:f4:86, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:ea:e6:88:25:f4:86, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
net_ratelimit: 3660 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:ea:e6:88:25:f4:86, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/24 23:54 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 3c3cdf19 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2026/08/08 14:50 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2026/06/19 11:37 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb 570c59ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2026/06/15 06:51 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2026/05/12 01:07 linux-6.6.y 3b9f64db0496 d168f260 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2026/05/10 20:40 linux-6.6.y 3b9f64db0496 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.