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INFO: rcu detected stall in pipe_write

Status: closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
Subsystems: mm
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First crash: 2394d, last: 2394d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in pipe_write 1 1 126d 126d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/27 17:40
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in pipe_write (2) cgroups mm 1 1 2358d 2358d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 08:13
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in pipe_write (2) 1 1 4d20h 4d20h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/06/18 20:17
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in pipe_write 1 1 737d 737d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/24 01:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in pipe_write (3) mm 1 2 740d 770d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/11 11:25

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	1-...!: (10499 ticks this GP) idle=942/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=11519/11519 fqs=39 
	(t=10501 jiffies g=6533 q=163)
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10424 jiffies! g6533 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=0
rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
rcu_preempt     R  running task    29032    10      2 0x80004000
Call Trace:
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:3385 [inline]
 __schedule+0x9a0/0xcc0 kernel/sched/core.c:4081
 schedule+0x181/0x210 kernel/sched/core.c:4155
 schedule_timeout+0x14f/0x240 kernel/time/timer.c:1895
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop kernel/rcu/tree.c:1661 [inline]
 rcu_gp_kthread+0xed8/0x1770 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1821
 kthread+0x332/0x350 kernel/kthread.c:255
 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 8279 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.4.0-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x1fb/0x318 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0xaf/0x1a0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:101
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x174/0x290 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x10/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c:38
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:164 [inline]
 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x15a/0x220 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:254
 print_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:455 [inline]
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:529 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:2827 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0xe25/0x1ad0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2271
 update_process_times+0x12d/0x180 kernel/time/timer.c:1726
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:167 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x263/0x420 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1310
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1514 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x403/0x840 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1576
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x38c/0xda0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1638
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1110 [inline]
 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x109/0x280 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1135
 apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:829
 </IRQ>
RIP: 0010:free_thread_stack+0x186/0x590 kernel/fork.c:284
Code: 8b 3b be fc ff ff ff e8 28 04 00 00 43 80 3c 2e 00 74 08 4c 89 e7 e8 09 a4 69 00 49 8b 1c 24 48 83 c3 08 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 eb a3 69 00 48 8b 1b e9 82 ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002097a28 EFLAGS: 00000a06 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13
RAX: 1ffff1100d81a481 RBX: ffff88806c0d2408 RCX: ffff888096a74140
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fffffffc RDI: ffffea00024a5540
RBP: ffffc90002097a60 R08: 000000000003a768 R09: ffffed101270970f
R10: ffffed101270970f R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88806c0d24a0
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffff1100d81a494 R15: ffff88809384b868
 release_task_stack kernel/fork.c:440 [inline]
 put_task_stack+0xa3/0x130 kernel/fork.c:451
 finish_task_switch+0x3f1/0x550 kernel/sched/core.c:3256
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:3388 [inline]
 __schedule+0x9a8/0xcc0 kernel/sched/core.c:4081
 preempt_schedule_common kernel/sched/core.c:4236 [inline]
 preempt_schedule+0xdb/0x120 kernel/sched/core.c:4261
 ___preempt_schedule+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:50
 __raw_spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:169 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x77/0x80 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:199
 spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock.h:388 [inline]
 pipe_write+0x507/0x1130 fs/pipe.c:483
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1902 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:483 [inline]
 __vfs_write+0x5a1/0x740 fs/read_write.c:496
 vfs_write+0x275/0x590 fs/read_write.c:558
 ksys_write+0x117/0x220 fs/read_write.c:611
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:623 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:620 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:620
 do_syscall_64+0xf7/0x1c0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:294
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x414130
Code: b0 89 c8 f7 d8 eb ed b8 6e 00 00 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 83 3d 3d 43 66 00 00 75 14 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 0f 83 c4 1b 00 00 c3 48 83 ec 08 e8 ca fc ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffd3a099dd8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000414130
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 00007ffd3a099e10 RDI: 00000000000000f8
RBP: 0000000000715460 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000524f525245 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000714de8
R13: 00007ffd3a099e10 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 00007ffd3a099e20

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2019/12/03 12:16 upstream 76bb8b05960c ab342da3 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.