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INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/02 23:08
Reported-by: syzbot+40c1946e9e365bef7b64@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 396d, last: 396d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file (3) 1 3 115d 286d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/11 12:22
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file 1 1 551d 551d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/01 14:21
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file (4) 1 2 7d13h 12d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/06/14 00:35
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file 1 1 29d 29d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/05/27 21:33

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P9953/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=34309, q=96)
task:syz.2.1319      state:R  running task     stack:27552 pid: 9953 ppid:  4572 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: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:ffffc9000348f4a0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: d2a04f67ba6e7100
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b2460 RDI: ffffffff8a59a700
RBP: ffffc9000348f5c0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff3619
R10: fffffbfff1ff3619 R11: 1ffffffff1ff3618 R12: ffffffff8c11c060
R13: 1ffff92000691ea0 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:312
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:739 [inline]
 is_bpf_text_address+0x1d/0x270 kernel/bpf/core.c:725
 kernel_text_address kernel/extable.c:151 [inline]
 __kernel_text_address+0x9a/0x100 kernel/extable.c:105
 unwind_get_return_address+0x49/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:323
 arch_stack_walk+0xf2/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 stack_trace_save+0x98/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:627 [inline]
 __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:2911 [inline]
 __vmalloc_node_range+0x2dd/0x8b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3030
 __vmalloc_node mm/vmalloc.c:3080 [inline]
 __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:2908 [inline]
 __vmalloc_node_range+0x28f/0x8b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3030
 vmalloc_user+0x70/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3166
 kcov_mmap+0x27/0x120 kernel/kcov.c:474
 call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:2177 [inline]
 mmap_file+0x5d/0xb0 mm/util.c:1092
 __mmap_region mm/mmap.c:1784 [inline]
 mmap_region+0xd0d/0x15e0 mm/mmap.c:2921
 do_mmap+0x77a/0xdf0 mm/mmap.c:1574
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x1b2/0x2b0 mm/util.c:551
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x542/0x780 mm/mmap.c:1623
 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: 0033:0x7fb4651d59a3
RSP: 002b:00007ffcdeee72b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb4653fd2d8 RCX: 00007fb4651d59a3
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000400000 RDI: 00007fb462bda000
RBP: 00007fb4653fd240 R08: 00000000000000db R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000011 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fb4653fcfa0
R13: 00007fb4653fd240 R14: 0000000000001c25 R15: 0000000000000006
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9872 jiffies! g34309 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:27464 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:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.15.184-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x397/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation+0x1cd/0x250 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:487
 print_other_cpu_stall+0x10c8/0x1220 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3932 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x831/0x1110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1690 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4fe/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1816
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9b/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:723
Code: bf 48 89 df e8 16 c9 12 f8 eb b5 e8 4f be f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 66 90 0f 00 2d a7 53 5b 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000d67d48 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: c7e0669108731200 RBX: ffff88813fe28000 RCX: c7e0669108731200
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a0b11c0 RDI: ffffffff8a59a700
RBP: ffffc90000d67e80 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed101722765a
R10: ffffed101722765a R11: 1ffff11017227659 R12: ffffffff8d68aaa8
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 1ffff11027fc5000
 default_idle_call+0x81/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:112
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:194 [inline]
 do_idle+0x21b/0x5b0 kernel/sched/idle.c:306
 cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:403
 start_secondary+0x31f/0x430 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:281
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb1/0xbb
 </TASK>
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
2025/05/25 23:06 linux-5.15.y 98f47d0e9b8c 2d4582d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in mmap_file
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.