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INFO: rcu detected stall in io_fallback_req_func

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/06 17:08
Subsystems: io-uring
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First crash: 100d, last: 100d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
eb147e57-c066-476e-8fb7-3663559d2030 repro INFO: rcu detected stall in io_fallback_req_func 2026/03/06 00:41 2026/03/06 00:41 2026/03/06 00:51 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6022/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=16973, q=467 ncpus=2)
task:kworker/1:6     state:R  running task     stack:23192 pid:6022  tgid:6022  ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000
Workqueue: events io_fallback_req_func
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1139/0x6150 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x51/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7190
 irqentry_exit+0x1d8/0x8c0 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0xc7a/0x20b0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:656
Code: 0f 9e c7 40 84 f6 40 0f 95 c6 40 84 f7 0f 85 9a 10 00 00 83 e0 07 38 c2 40 0f 9e c6 84 d2 0f 95 c0 40 84 c6 0f 85 83 10 00 00 <0f> b6 41 04 c0 e8 04 3c 01 0f 84 06 08 00 00 3c 04 0f 84 b4 08 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000475f598 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff9120f740
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000475f6a0 R08: ffffffff9120f744 R09: 00000000b7954482
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000006cdb R12: ffffc9000475f6a8
R13: ffffc9000475f658 R14: ffffc9000475f658 R15: ffffc9000475f68c
 __unwind_start+0x45f/0x7f0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:773
 unwind_start arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h:64 [inline]
 arch_stack_walk+0x73/0x100 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:24
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2492 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x147/0x770 mm/slub.c:6781
 __io_req_caches_free+0x19e/0x5c0 io_uring/io_uring.c:2827
 io_queue_deferred+0x68/0x4c0 io_uring/io_uring.c:521
 __io_submit_flush_completions+0x1310/0x1980 io_uring/io_uring.c:1543
 io_submit_flush_completions io_uring/io_uring.h:239 [inline]
 io_fallback_req_func+0x26d/0x720 io_uring/io_uring.c:247
 process_one_work+0x9ba/0x1b20 kernel/workqueue.c:3257
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x983/0xb10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10537 jiffies! g16973 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:28440 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1139/0x6150 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline]
 schedule+0xe7/0x3a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6960
 schedule_timeout+0x123/0x290 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1ea/0xaf0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x26d/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x983/0xb10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: b6 5f 02 c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 13 39 12 00 fb f4 <e9> cc 35 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8e007df8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 0000000000926781 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8b7826d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8dace4f3 RDI: ffffffff8bf2b480
RBP: fffffbfff1c12f68 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed101708673d
R10: ffff8880b84339eb R11: ffffffff8e098670 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffff8e097b40 R14: ffffffff9088bad0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881248f5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000230 CR3: 000000007405a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x38d/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 rest_init+0x16b/0x2b0 init/main.c:757
 start_kernel+0x3ef/0x4d0 init/main.c:1206
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:310
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x130/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:291
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/06 17:05 upstream 7f98ab9da046 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in io_fallback_req_func
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.