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INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/20 19:30
Reported-by: syzbot+ecc91afd56cfea8535b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 11d, last: 1d23h

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P7596/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=41817, q=152 ncpus=2)
task:syz.9.717       state:R  running task     stack:23568 pid:7596  ppid:5595   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6874
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:439
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp8+0x0/0x80 kernel/kcov.c:321
Code: 28 4d 39 ca 77 22 89 ff 89 f6 49 ff c0 4c 89 01 48 c7 44 11 08 05 00 00 00 48 89 7c 11 10 48 89 74 11 18 48 89 44 11 20 c3 90 <48> 8b 04 24 65 48 8b 0d e4 f8 7f 7e 65 8b 15 e5 f8 7f 7e 81 e2 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900049071a0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff81ac7e14 RBX: ffffea00011e3240 RCX: ffff88802983bb80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffea00011e3277 R09: 1ffffd400023c64e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff9400023c64f R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 1ffff92000920e4c R14: ffff888049629600 R15: ffffc90004907260
 xa_is_internal include/linux/xarray.h:171 [inline]
 xa_is_sibling include/linux/xarray.h:1265 [inline]
 xas_reload+0x1d2/0x470 include/linux/xarray.h:1584
 find_get_entry mm/filemap.c:2048 [inline]
 find_lock_entries+0x35e/0xbb0 mm/filemap.c:2123
 shmem_undo_range+0x288/0x20c0 mm/shmem.c:925
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1062 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x25b/0xa80 mm/shmem.c:1171
 evict+0x4c9/0x8d0 fs/inode.c:705
 __dentry_kill+0x431/0x650 fs/dcache.c:611
 dentry_kill+0xb8/0x290 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0xfa/0x1d0 fs/dcache.c:918
 __fput+0x5e0/0x920 fs/file_table.c:328
 task_work_run+0x1d0/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:203
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:39 [inline]
 do_exit+0x982/0x2480 kernel/exit.c:880
 do_group_exit+0x217/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1022
 get_signal+0x1272/0x1350 kernel/signal.c:2871
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc4/0x1350 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:871
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x5/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:316
 exc_page_fault+0x88/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1490
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0033:0x7f2a1d99aec1
RSP: 002b:fffffffffffffe70 EFLAGS: 00010217
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f2a1dc16090 RCX: 00007f2a1d99aeb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: fffffffffffffe70 RDI: 0000000000008000
RBP: 00007f2a1da08c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2a1dc16128 R14: 00007f2a1dc16090 R15: 00007ffe49522e28
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10482 jiffies! g41817 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=21295
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10483 jiffies! g41817 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:27184 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6638
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x303/0x1340 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1905
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:741

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/29 21:58 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 aeb6fdd5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/01/27 17:36 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/01/20 19:29 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 06648d9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.