INFO: rcu detected stall in wext_handle_ioctl (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/10/06 15:13
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 94d, last: 94d
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4702a365 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in wext_handle_ioctl (2) 2026/07/10 00:02 2026/07/10 00:02 2026/07/10 00:57 6e8eff30
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in wext_handle_ioctl 1 1 124d 124d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/09/16 13:51
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in wext_handle_ioctl 1 1 97d 97d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/05 13:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in wext_handle_ioctl mm 1 1 506d 506d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/20 15:59

Sample crash report:
sched: DL replenish lagged too much
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P16276/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=291265, q=1091 ncpus=2)
task:syz.0.10608     state:R  running task     stack:28400 pid:16276 tgid:16274 ppid:10665  task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5510 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d9/0x56c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7556
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x8f0 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x2d7/0x3c0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5893
Code: 4e ca 11 00 00 00 00 eb b5 e8 a5 fe 2b 0a f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 b9 65 48 8b 05 95 09 ca 11 48 3b 44 24 28 75 44 fb 48 83 c4 30 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d 52 a8 b8
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000deb7528 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: ca06633187558700 RBX: 0000000000000206 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8e4aea3e RDI: ffffffff8c4bd280
RBP: ffff8880410d68c8 R08: ffffc9000deb7cb0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000deb7658 R11: fffff52001bd6ecd R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffff8eb59c20 R15: ffff8880410d5d00
 rcu_lock_release include/linux/rcupdate.h:310 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:871 [inline]
 class_rcu_destructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1183 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0x1baa/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:709
 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:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc1e/0xd10 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 __slab_free+0x274/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:5767
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4612 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4945 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5361 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x461/0x730 mm/slub.c:5497
 __kmemdup_nul mm/util.c:64 [inline]
 kstrdup+0x42/0x100 mm/util.c:84
 call_modprobe kernel/module/kmod.c:88 [inline]
 __request_module+0x2ec/0x630 kernel/module/kmod.c:173
 wext_ioctl_dispatch+0x9d/0x410 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1011
 wext_handle_ioctl+0x110/0x1d0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1074
 sock_ioctl+0x159/0x7e0 net/socket.c:1353
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f14cf59de59
RSP: 002b:00007f14d038f028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f14cf825fa0 RCX: 00007f14cf59de59
RDX: 0000200000000040 RSI: 0000000000008b32 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f14cf633e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f14cf826038 R14: 00007f14cf825fa0 R15: 00007fffb26a4048
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 1625 jiffies! g291265 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:27496 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5510 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d9/0x56c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7311 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x2b0 kernel/sched/core.c:7326
 schedule_timeout+0x152/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x30c/0x11f0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2123
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2325
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 30818 Comm: kworker/u8:37 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: wg-kex-wg1 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker
RIP: 0010:check_preemption_disabled+0x1/0xe0 lib/smp_processor_id.c:13
Code: 20 d2 4b 8c 48 c7 c6 60 d2 4b 8c eb 1c 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 <41> 57 41 56 53 65 8b 05 f7 ed 9d 07 65 8b 0d ec ed 9d 07 f7 c1 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007310 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: ffffffff8a9f282c RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000100
RDX: ffff888034515d00 RSI: ffffffff8c4bd260 RDI: ffffffff8c4bd220
RBP: ffffc90000007430 R08: ffff888034515d00 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: 1ffff92000000e6c
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880a91473c0 R15: ffff88807fbe0000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124f5a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f07f0000000 CR3: 00000000744de000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 rcu_is_watching_curr_cpu include/linux/context_tracking.h:128 [inline]
 rcu_is_watching+0x15/0xb0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:752
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:869 [inline]
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:275 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x295/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:316
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x1192/0x1990 net/bridge/br_input.c:-1
 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x3dd/0x4c0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:-1
 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x90c/0xc40 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:-1
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x382/0x6f0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:183
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:291 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x127f/0x1510 net/bridge/br_input.c:442
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x989/0x30b0 net/core/dev.c:6093
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6204 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6319 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x706/0x1860 net/core/dev.c:6670
 __napi_poll+0xaa/0x330 net/core/dev.c:7729
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7792 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x61d/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:7949
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 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+0xfa/0x1c00 lib/crypto/x86/blake2s.h:42
 blake2s_final+0x10f/0x270 lib/crypto/blake2s.c:142
 hmac+0x2dc/0x3b0 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:333
 kdf+0x12d/0x290 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:367
 mix_dh drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:413 [inline]
 wg_noise_handshake_create_initiation+0x29e/0x810 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:550
 wg_packet_send_handshake_initiation drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:34 [inline]
 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker+0x18c/0x370 drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:51
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/08 15:04 net 1a3267a8c9ec ab40da58 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in wext_handle_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.