INFO: rcu detected stall in ext4_dir_open

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/10/05 11:54
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:normal
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First crash: 97d, last: 97d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
ed877c3f assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in ext4_dir_open 2026/07/09 00:04 2026/07/09 00:04 2026/07/09 00:58 93f57954

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:ba:7f:52:dc:c3:4c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 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): P5360/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=15929, q=2038 ncpus=2)
task:crond           state:R  running task     stack:23528 pid:5360  tgid:5360  ppid:1      task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00080800
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:unwind_next_frame+0x44c/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:511
Code: 49 bc 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 27 48 89 ef e8 ba d1 5f 00 48 c7 c1 e0 b3 9b 8e 31 d2 84 c0 48 0f 45 d1 48 89 15 04 5c fb 11 <48> 85 d2 0f 84 2e 02 00 00 48 8d 5a 04 48 89 54 24 18 4c 8d 6a 05
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000351f3e0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff90e1d778 RCX: ffffffff90e1d77c
RDX: ffffffff9198657a RSI: ffffffff9198657a RDI: ffffffff8c4bd220
RBP: ffffffff8bcda223 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8eb59c20 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc9000351f488 R15: ffffffff90e1d77c
 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]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2ab/0x660 mm/slub.c:5511
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:969 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1290 [inline]
 ext4_dir_open+0x4f/0xa0 fs/ext4/dir.c:675
 do_dentry_open+0x816/0x1380 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1052
 do_open fs/namei.c:4700 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2e44/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4859
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4888
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1368
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1374 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1390 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1385 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1385
 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: 0033:0x7f3090da6c3a
RSP: 002b:00007ffe3f9af488 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3090f52490 RCX: 00007f3090da6c3a
RDX: 0000000000090800 RSI: 00007f3090f31a4b RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 000000006a4ce77f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000003c R14: 00007f3090f92000 R15: 000000000000003c
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 1496 jiffies! g15929 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:28368 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: 33 Comm: kworker/R-write Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-8:0)
RIP: 0010:unwind_get_return_address+0x45/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:385
Code: e8 03 42 0f b6 04 30 84 c0 75 4c 83 3b 00 74 3a 48 83 c3 48 49 89 df 49 c1 ef 03 43 80 3c 37 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 cb 05 bd 00 <48> 8b 3b e8 63 e2 18 00 85 c0 74 14 43 80 3c 37 00 74 08 48 89 df
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006748 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc900000067b0 RCX: 0000000080000100
RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: ffffffff8e4ae976 RDI: ffffc90000006768
RBP: ffffc900000067f0 R08: ffffc90000006b60 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc900000067b8 R11: fffff52000000cf9 R12: ffff888020af5d00
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff92000000cf6
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124f60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007faf262bae80 CR3: 000000000e946000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 arch_stack_walk+0xfb/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 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
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2705 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6405 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x182/0x650 mm/slub.c:6532
 skb_ext_del include/linux/skbuff.h:5100 [inline]
 nf_bridge_info_free net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:157 [inline]
 br_nf_dev_queue_xmit+0x4f6/0x2540 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:856
 NF_HOOK+0x64e/0x6e0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
 br_nf_post_routing+0xa53/0xee0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:964
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:165 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xc5/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:619
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:280 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x23e/0x3f0 include/linux/netfilter.h:323
 br_forward_finish+0xd3/0x130 net/bridge/br_forward.c:66
 br_nf_hook_thresh net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:1165 [inline]
 br_nf_forward_finish+0xa76/0xea0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:667
 NF_HOOK+0x64e/0x6e0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
 br_nf_forward_ip+0x7eb/0xa30 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:721
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:165 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xc5/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:619
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:280 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x23e/0x3f0 include/linux/netfilter.h:323
 __br_forward+0x397/0x540 net/bridge/br_forward.c:115
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x1175/0x1990 net/bridge/br_input.c:229
 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:325 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x382/0x6f0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:183
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:165 [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 kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:735
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:752
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:kasan_mem_to_shadow include/linux/kasan.h:66 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned_n mm/kasan/generic.c:140 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned mm/kasan/generic.c:172 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:191 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x59/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
Code: ff eb 0d cc cc cc 49 b9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 4c 39 cf 0f 82 14 02 00 00 49 89 ff 49 c1 ef 03 49 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <4f> 8d 1c 17 49 ff c8 4d 89 c1 49 c1 e9 03 48 bb 01 00 00 00 00 fc
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a96388 EFLAGS: 00000a07
RAX: ffffffff823f9f01 RBX: ffff88801ddb2a0c RCX: ffffffff823f9fed
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff88801ddb2a0c
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff88801ddb2a10 R09: ffff800000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1003bb6542 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 00000000000556e9 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff11003bb6541
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
 atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 [inline]
 __page_table_check_zero+0x1fd/0x3e0 mm/page_table_check.c:143
 page_table_check_free include/linux/page_table_check.h:46 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1407 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc2e/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]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2a0/0x5f0 mm/slub.c:4959
 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x543/0x4530 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:6290
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1534/0x5850 fs/ext4/extents.c:4461
 ext4_map_create_blocks+0x116/0x530 fs/ext4/inode.c:631
 ext4_map_blocks+0x7e4/0x1240 fs/ext4/inode.c:824
 mpage_map_one_extent fs/ext4/inode.c:2397 [inline]
 mpage_map_and_submit_extent fs/ext4/inode.c:2491 [inline]
 ext4_do_writepages+0x23d3/0x47a0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2949
 ext4_writepages+0x241/0x3b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:3043
 do_writepages+0x338/0x560 mm/page-writeback.c:2571
 __writeback_single_inode+0x12e/0xf90 fs/fs-writeback.c:1787
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x9de/0x1b00 fs/fs-writeback.c:2079
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x114/0x240 fs/fs-writeback.c:2155
 writeback_inodes_wb+0x197/0x240 fs/fs-writeback.c:2185
 wb_workfn+0x10aa/0x10f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2486
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 rescuer_thread+0x7b6/0x10b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3629
 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>
net_ratelimit: 10192 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:ba:7f:52:dc:c3:4c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:ba:7f:52:dc:c3:4c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
net_ratelimit: 10963 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:ba:7f:52:dc:c3:4c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:ba:7f:52:dc:c3:4c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/07 11:51 net-next 474cff686812 8e71ce95 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in ext4_dir_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.