INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/03/27 03:03
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+adf8ed0e3c4682852da1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 727d, last: 14h58m
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fa30f5e8 repro-c 💥 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7) 2026/08/05 17:32 2026/08/06 20:30 2026/08/07 02:10 c38879ea
17fc2c9a assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7) 2026/05/19 00:28 2026/05/19 00:28 2026/05/19 01:17 9f74d399
93540eac repro ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7) 2026/03/08 14:25 2026/03/08 14:25 2026/03/08 14:36 31e9c887
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[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (7) 0 (1) 2025/03/27 03:03
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (2) kernel 1 14 1743d 2049d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone (3) kernel 1 7 1564d 1662d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/31 19:01
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone bpf 1 2 2178d 2187d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/02/24 09:47
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __do_sys_clone mm 1 1 2255d 2255d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/11/09 15:43

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P9605/1:b..l..
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10552 jiffies, g=60249, q=835 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:23192 pid:9605  tgid:9605  ppid:9590   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5584 [inline]
 __schedule+0x125e/0x6a40 kernel/sched/core.c:7389
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4e/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7669
 irqentry_exit_cond_resched arch/x86/include/asm/fred.h:105 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_preempt include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:453 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:543 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x33f/0xab0 kernel/entry/common.c:154
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x5e/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5947
Code: 05 cf 99 d1 13 83 f8 07 0f 87 da 00 00 00 48 0f a3 05 de 6b 81 10 0f 82 c9 02 00 00 8b 35 be 9b 81 10 85 f6 0f 85 c7 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 6d 99 d1 13 0f 85 09 03 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000557f1e0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000200
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e602abc RDI: ffffffff8c834f80
RBP: ffffffff8ffed020 R08: 0000000080bd1e28 R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:309 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:849 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1216 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xd1/0x2090 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:351 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:377
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4720 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5033 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x269/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:5047
 mt_alloc_one lib/maple_tree.c:139 [inline]
 mas_dup_build lib/maple_tree.c:6194 [inline]
 __mt_dup+0x61e/0xce0 lib/maple_tree.c:6277
 dup_mmap+0x1d2/0x2180 mm/mmap.c:1728
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1549 [inline]
 copy_mm kernel/fork.c:1602 [inline]
 copy_process+0x7c5c/0x88e0 kernel/fork.c:2328
 kernel_clone+0x176/0x9d0 kernel/fork.c:2798
 __do_sys_clone+0xd9/0x120 kernel/fork.c:2940
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x7b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff4d61d51d2
RSP: 002b:00007fff020731b0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fff020731b0 RCX: 00007ff4d61d51d2
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
RBP: 00007fff0207333c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000555584b967d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00000000000927c0 R14: 00000000000b1048 R15: 00007fff02073390
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10595 jiffies! g60249 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=R ->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:27560 pid:17    tgid:17    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5584 [inline]
 __schedule+0x125e/0x6a40 kernel/sched/core.c:7389
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7466 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x2c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7481
 schedule_timeout+0x127/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1a9/0x930 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2122
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x179/0x260 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2330
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 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: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/06/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:64
Code: d6 9f 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 33 de 1b 00 fb f4 <e9> 4c 62 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001a7e00 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 00000000023cf6ff RBX: ffff88802028cb00 RCX: ffffffff8befe375
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8e6299d9 RDI: ffffffff8c834f80
RBP: ffffed1004051960 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1017026825
R10: ffff8880b813412b R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 1ffff92000034fc4 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888122570000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f6025192b00 CR3: 000000005be16000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:62 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:768
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x3ae/0x5b0 kernel/sched/idle.c:355
 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:458
 start_secondary+0x21d/0x2d0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x158
 </TASK>

Crashes (142):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/11/13 09:47 upstream 7e1392a42ea2 26b2fee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/11/11 08:26 upstream 067c5c24cef2 d3056657 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/10/18 05:47 upstream 58161ead29e5 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/10/15 14:58 upstream 0fcb05b72344 3f2522c6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/10/11 13:11 upstream a5ebb76233b7 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/10/07 13:44 upstream 602042bf29f6 6520ecdb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/10/03 15:03 upstream e767a4ea70a3 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/10/02 19:38 upstream ce1e0223d8ad 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/10/01 10:31 upstream 551c722f4080 38f7f0d1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/09/27 06:15 upstream fd179f8a05be a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/09/23 05:39 upstream fe2ec83746e5 abce1216 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/09/10 23:17 upstream 08df884136f1 1fe56c0a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/30 06:05 upstream 08dbfad3f504 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/25 21:14 upstream 66498c75b4f8 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/16 17:15 upstream 3eb40771c00a 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/07 01:27 upstream 0d8395707651 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/06 10:46 upstream 0d8395707651 cc56899a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/04 10:29 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/03 11:08 upstream 075b74841bd0 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/08/01 12:00 upstream 02dc699f83d0 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/31 20:59 upstream 8ba098e6b6ff db462e94 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/31 10:41 upstream 3708dd948844 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/21 07:54 upstream b95f03f04d47 de6a700d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/19 23:17 upstream c6859eed755d 72524a66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/17 05:07 upstream fce2dfa773ce 8f30cfd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/14 14:24 upstream 3b029c035b34 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/14 06:23 upstream 0f26556c5eee 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/13 18:13 upstream a13c140cc289 a870962e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/11 14:14 upstream d96fcfe1b7f9 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/05 20:25 upstream f105f3631d51 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/04 18:31 upstream 1e9cdc2ea15a fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/07/01 00:30 upstream dc59e4fea9d8 00e8b0fd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/29 01:44 upstream 8b69c0475871 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/26 16:45 upstream 4edcdefd4083 7ff32d8b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/07 18:57 upstream 979c294509f9 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/06 18:03 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/05 06:15 upstream 9154c4af7829 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/06/03 10:35 upstream ba3e43a9e601 3c0d2131 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/05/15 19:42 upstream 70eda68668d1 9cd3beaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/05/08 21:00 upstream 81d6f7807536 0c5a8d8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/27 15:53 upstream 254f49634ee1 0f700595 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/27 04:34 upstream 20b64cf8705a 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/12 09:28 upstream e753c16cb3dd 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/07 22:27 upstream 3036cd0d3328 2c961e87 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/04/04 03:44 upstream 631919fb12fe 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/27 01:02 upstream 0138af2472df 4b3d9a38 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2026/03/05 11:56 upstream c107785c7e8d d20b04c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2025/03/26 17:28 upstream 2df0c02dab82 89d30d73 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2025/03/23 02:43 upstream 183601b78a9b c6512ef7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2025/03/16 20:51 upstream d1275e99d1c4 e2826670 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
2025/01/05 03:02 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing f1a2241778d9 f3558dbf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in clone
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.