INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/06 04:01
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+e788d199648e5ddfa0a8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 100d, last: 12d
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/07/08 linux-5.15.y (ToT) c86c4726e7f0 syz [report] INFO: rcu detected stall in perf_release
2026/07/08 upstream (ToT) 0e35b9b6ec0f syz Didn't crash
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill prio:high mm 1 syz, C error 49 6h07m 55d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/20 03:58
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill 1 15 16d 194d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/02/01 10:07
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill 1 14 4d05h 205d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/01/20 19:30

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=237/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=7572/7573 fqs=5122 
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=9049, q=198151)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 4456 Comm: syz.2.49 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:trace_hardirqs_on+0x6c/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:50
Code: f9 ff eb 1c e8 85 d9 f9 ff 48 8b 7c 24 08 31 f6 e8 29 00 00 00 65 c7 05 b6 0f 84 7e 00 00 00 00 e8 a9 81 dd ff 48 8b 7c 24 08 <5b> e9 5e f1 40 08 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 55 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007a48 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 9fc8179c38757d00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 9fc8179c38757d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b3e80 RDI: ffffffff89e00e46
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055555bb75500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b31463fff CR3: 0000000079518000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x7f/0x4a0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: eb 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 42 c7 44 2b 08 f8 f3 f3 f3 65 44 8b 35 02 20 9d 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 40 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 42 c7 44 2b 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007b00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 9fc8179c38757d00 RBX: 1ffff92000000f64 RCX: 9fc8179c38757d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: ffffffff8a7a4200
RBP: ffffc90000007bd8 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: ffffffff8c323400
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x132/0x140 net/mac80211/util.c:831
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0x9b/0x180 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1865
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4ea/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x176/0x240 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1766
 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:kasan_quarantine_put+0x84/0x210 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:234
Code: e8 d1 fb c0 ff 48 c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 04 24 f7 04 24 00 02 00 00 0f 85 83 00 00 00 41 f7 c7 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 31 c0 <48> 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 8d 80 40 62 03 00 45
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000472fc80 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 9fc8179c38757d01 RBX: ffff88802129f780 RCX: 9fc8179c38757d00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: ffffffff8a7a4200
RBP: ffffc9000472fd18 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: ffff888016ddd640
R13: ffff88802129f780 R14: 00000000000710b0 R15: 0000000000000282
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x8f/0x210 mm/slub.c:3520
 __dentry_kill+0x4db/0x630 fs/dcache.c:600
 dentry_kill+0xb8/0x290 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0xd8/0x1a0 fs/dcache.c:893
 __fput+0x5a5/0x8c0 fs/file_table.c:319
 task_work_run+0x125/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10f/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f6324b3a019
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:00007fff89417998 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007fff89417a80 RCX: 00007f6324b3a019
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000000000001cf38 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b30820000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6324dc1fac R14: 00007f6324dc1fa8 R15: 00007f6324dc1fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/02 14:54 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 e611ffe1 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/06/20 20:29 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 43bfcdb0 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/07/12 01:37 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/06/12 00:25 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 d93a6ab6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/06/05 08:10 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/05/27 14:03 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c 8777bdc3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/05/23 16:39 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/05/06 04:01 linux-5.15.y ef251c45f1cd 26da2c66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.