INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/29 15:14
Reported-by: syzbot+76bf424c06afe439e581@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 421d, last: 421d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock mm 1 1 795d 795d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/11 05:27
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock 1 1 335d 335d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/25 08:53
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock (2) mm kasan 1 2 647d 660d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/05 20:37
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock 1 1 824d 824d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/23 11:10
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock (3) mm 1 8 178d 421d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/20 22:34
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock (2) origin:lts-only 1 syz, C 2 1d06h 36d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/12 06:18

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P4359/1:b..l P18883/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=83637, q=219)
task:syz.5.3240      state:R  running task     stack:26656 pid:18883 ppid:  7730 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5030 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11b8/0x43b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6376
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6780
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:432
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled+0x0/0x30 kernel/rcu/update.c:279
Code: 6d c7 03 00 75 e8 48 c7 c7 60 10 0b 8a 48 c7 c6 e0 34 0b 8a e8 91 35 f5 ff 0f 0b eb d1 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 <31> c0 83 3d 8b 3a c7 03 00 74 1d 83 3d 02 6d c7 03 00 74 14 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000445f958 EFLAGS: 00000283
RAX: ffffffff81ad53ac RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc90015406000 RSI: 0000000000004515 RDI: 0000000000004516
RBP: ffffc9000445fa10 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff361f
R10: fffffbfff1ff361f R11: 1ffffffff1ff361e R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff9200088bf2c R14: ffff8880768d4000 R15: 0000000000000200
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:768 [inline]
 count_memcg_event_mm+0x292/0x360 include/linux/memcontrol.h:1082
 handle_mm_fault+0x12d/0x43c0 mm/memory.c:4863
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:976 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x93e/0x11c0 mm/gup.c:1197
 populate_vma_page_range+0x213/0x290 mm/gup.c:1529
 __mm_populate+0x26f/0x3a0 mm/gup.c:1638
 do_mlock+0x47a/0x530 mm/mlock.c:688
 __do_sys_mlock mm/mlock.c:696 [inline]
 __se_sys_mlock mm/mlock.c:694 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mlock+0x5c/0x70 mm/mlock.c:694
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f43fc469929
RSP: 002b:00007f43fa2d1038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000095
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f43fc690fa0 RCX: 00007f43fc469929
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000800000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f43fc4ebb39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f43fc690fa0 R15: 00007ffdf78746b8
 </TASK>
task:kworker/u4:12   state:R  running task     stack:22496 pid: 4359 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5030 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11b8/0x43b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6376
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6780
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:432
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5627
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f6 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3d 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 0b
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000329f900 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 6600f8c9fe07f200
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b2460 RDI: ffffffff8a59a740
RBP: ffffc9000329fa20 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff3619
R10: fffffbfff1ff3619 R11: 1ffffffff1ff3618 R12: ffffffff8c11bfa0
R13: 1ffff92000653f2c R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:312
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:739 [inline]
 inet_twsk_purge+0x119/0x810 net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c:268
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:177 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x77b/0xb80 net/core/net_namespace.c:635
 process_one_work+0x863/0x1000 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10560 jiffies! g83637 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:27936 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5030 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11b8/0x43b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6376
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6459
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x29e/0x11b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x98/0x350 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:722

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/06/21 15:14 linux-5.15.y 1c700860e8bc d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mlock
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.