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INFO: rcu detected stall in virtual_ncidev_close

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/20 11:33
Subsystems: mm
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First crash: 169d, last: 122d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
e2287067-a496-4562-a103-85485967aef5 assessment-security 💥 INFO: rcu detected stall in virtual_ncidev_close 2026/05/14 14:32 2026/05/14 14:32 2026/05/14 14:33 6ccb967e465e832a7bfd7a116ad00d52a0923a5d
failed to run ["git" "pull" "origin" "HEAD" "--depth=1" "--allow-unrelated-histories"]: exit status 128
From /app/workdir/repo/linux
 * branch                HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating files:  ...
truncated to first 200 bytes; open job for full error
09322d71-873e-470b-b88e-da5ddba94f4a repro INFO: rcu detected stall in virtual_ncidev_close 2026/03/06 21:19 2026/03/06 21:19 2026/03/06 21:28 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0

			
		

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5949/1:b..l P8224/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10503 jiffies, g=155393, q=2094 ncpus=2)
task:syz.1.9547      state:R  running task     stack:25592 pid:8224  tgid:8224  ppid:4664   task_flags:0x480040 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1568/0x5290 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 irqentry_exit+0x599/0x620 kernel/entry/common.c:239
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0xccb/0x23c0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:-1
Code: 84 c0 0f 85 78 11 00 00 0f b6 76 01 83 e6 07 83 fe 04 0f 84 4e 04 00 00 83 fe 03 0f 84 f5 01 00 00 83 fe 02 0f 85 a8 07 00 00 <4c> 89 7c 24 28 4d 8d 7e 08 4c 89 fd 48 c1 ed 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000bcdf558 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff90a8ec39 RCX: ffffffff902bb8c0
RDX: ffffffff90a8ec34 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffffffff8c2764a0
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 000000000000000a R09: ffffffff8e75e0a0
R10: ffffc9000bcdf678 R11: ffffffff81af7870 R12: ffffc9000bcdfef0
R13: ffffc9000bcdf678 R14: ffffc9000bcdf628 R15: 1ffffffff2151d87
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x122/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:165
 __reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:320
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbf8/0xd70 mm/page_alloc.c:2973
 __slab_free+0x263/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:5490
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x22/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:406
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x31c/0x660 mm/slub.c:5297
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:962 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1204 [inline]
 kobject_uevent_env+0x28c/0x9e0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:540
 device_del+0x750/0x8f0 drivers/base/core.c:3896
 rfkill_unregister+0xba/0x220 net/rfkill/core.c:1143
 nfc_unregister_rfkill+0xd4/0x280 net/nfc/core.c:1175
 nci_unregister_device+0x47/0x260 net/nfc/nci/core.c:1306
 virtual_ncidev_close+0x56/0x90 drivers/nfc/virtual_ncidev.c:168
 __fput+0x44f/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:469
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:67 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xed/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f6fdad9c629
RSP: 002b:00007fff31963608 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f6fdb017da0 RCX: 00007f6fdad9c629
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f6fdb017da0 R08: 0000000000000006 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007f6fdb017cb0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000c3db2
R13: 00007f6fdb01609c R14: 00000000000c3b8b R15: 00007f6fdb016090
 </TASK>
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:22248 pid:5949  tgid:5949  ppid:1      task_flags:0x40054c flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1568/0x5290 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 irqentry_exit+0x599/0x620 kernel/entry/common.c:239
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x221/0x330 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: ff ff ff e8 a1 d5 fd 09 f7 44 24 08 00 02 00 00 0f 84 3a ff ff ff 65 48 8b 05 1b a3 76 11 48 3b 44 24 58 75 33 fb 48 83 c4 60 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 00 ba 00 0a cc 48 8d 3d c8 81 73
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b9af318 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 91b4c86190cfc800 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 00000000ae0c93a7 RSI: ffffffff8e15184f RDI: ffffffff8c276500
RBP: ffffffff81759275 R08: ffffffff81759275 R09: ffffffff8e75e0a0
R10: ffffc9000b9af478 R11: ffffffff81af7870 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8e75e0a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000246
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1193 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x23c0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x31c/0x660 mm/slub.c:5297
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:962 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2622 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6082 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x154/0x610 mm/slub.c:6212
 exit_mmap+0x544/0xb30 mm/mmap.c:1302
 __mmput+0x118/0x430 kernel/fork.c:1174
 exit_mm+0x168/0x220 kernel/exit.c:581
 do_exit+0x62e/0x2310 kernel/exit.c:959
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1112
 get_signal+0x1284/0x1330 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x830 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x86/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff10db5cece
RSP: 002b:00007fffe4d14808 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e6
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000055557c065500 RCX: 00007ff10db5cece
RDX: 00007fffe4d14860 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007fffe4d148cc R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000057
R13: 0000000000000064 R14: 00000000000c3f99 R15: 00007fffe4d14920
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 1222 jiffies! g155393 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=1
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:27624 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1568/0x5290 kernel/sched/core.c:6907
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6989 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7004
 schedule_timeout+0x158/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x312/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 13 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: wg-kex-wg2 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker
RIP: 0010:find_held_lock kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5347 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5535 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0xd6/0x3a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5889
Code: 01 00 00 00 83 3d 59 38 70 0e 00 0f 84 90 01 00 00 41 8b 87 00 0b 00 00 85 c0 0f 84 17 01 00 00 4c 89 6c 24 18 48 89 5c 24 08 <44> 8d 60 ff 49 8d af 08 0b 00 00 4d 63 ec 48 89 04 24 83 f8 32 0f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a08140 EFLAGS: 00000006
RAX: 0000000000000006 RBX: 0000000000000206 RCX: 0000000080000102
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8defc508 RDI: ffffffff8c276500
RBP: 0000000000000820 R08: ffffffff8221967e R09: ffff8880b8742e38
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff202124f R12: ffffffff822273c9
R13: ffffffff822273c9 R14: ffff8880b8742e38 R15: ffff88801daddac0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881255b0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ff10eab5ff8 CR3: 0000000080d24000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 local_lock_release include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:62 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x244/0x620 mm/slub.c:4530
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4639 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x441/0x690 mm/slub.c:4840
 __alloc_skb+0x1d0/0x7d0 net/core/skbuff.c:702
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:1055 [inline]
 fdb_notify+0xa6/0x160 net/bridge/br_fdb.c:188
 br_fdb_update+0x4c8/0x690 net/bridge/br_fdb.c:1040
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x573/0x1b40 net/bridge/br_input.c:144
 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x3dd/0x4c0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:-1
 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0xa3a/0xd70 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:-1
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x374/0x6f0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:184
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:291 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x1277/0x1510 net/bridge/br_input.c:442
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x98f/0x3150 net/core/dev.c:6043
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6154 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6269 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x76d/0x1950 net/core/dev.c:6621
 __napi_poll+0xae/0x340 net/core/dev.c:7685
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7748 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x627/0xf70 net/core/dev.c:7900
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x7c0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 blake2s_compress+0xf9/0x1eb0 lib/crypto/x86/blake2s.h:42
 blake2s_update+0x14b/0x450 lib/crypto/blake2s.c:119
 hmac+0x2d3/0x3b0 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:332
 kdf+0xff/0x2b0 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:360
 mix_dh drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:413 [inline]
 wg_noise_handshake_create_initiation+0x2bc/0x830 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:550
 wg_packet_send_handshake_initiation drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:34 [inline]
 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker+0x18d/0x350 drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:51
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3275 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xaec/0x17a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3358
 worker_thread+0xa50/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3439
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
net_ratelimit: 12123 callbacks suppressed
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:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, vlan:0)
net_ratelimit: 18031 callbacks suppressed
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:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, 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:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, 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:0e:b6:59:fb:19:0d, vlan:0)

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/19 11:28 net 45be47bf5d7d 746545b8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in virtual_ncidev_close
2026/01/04 07:22 net-next dbf8fe85a16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in virtual_ncidev_close
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.