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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (6)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/19 15:35
Subsystems: fuse
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First crash: 94d, last: 94d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open fs 1 1 2498d 2498d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/25 09:11
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (2) 1 1 192d 192d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/21 17:47
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open 1 1 2385d 2385d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 20:01
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open 1 9 525d 581d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/23 05:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (5) fs lsm 1 3 579d 667d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/19 17:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (3) fs 1 C inconclusive 5 1536d 1771d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (4) ext4 1 1 1428d 1428d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/24 20:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (2) crypto 1 C done done 42 1960d 2310d 15/29 fixed on 2020/12/23 11:40
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_open 1 1 685d 685d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/06 04:14

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6132/1:b..l P5823/1:b..l P6020/1:b..l P6135/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=12005, q=1087 ncpus=2)
task:syz.1.46        state:R  running task     stack:25992 pid:6135  tgid:6126  ppid:5824   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14bc/0x5000 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7190
 irqentry_exit+0x5d8/0x660 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x2a6/0x3b0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5893
Code: 4d 48 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f7 44 24 20 00 02 00 00 75 52 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 65 48 8b 05 ba 06 e0 10 <48> 3b 44 24 28 75 75 48 83 c4 30 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9
RSP: 0018:ffffc900055cf070 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 3fc4d3d106228500 RBX: 0000000000000202 RCX: 3fc4d3d106228500
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffffffff8d979233 RDI: ffffffff8bc08360
RBP: ffff88802bdfaa28 R08: ffffc900055cfdb0 R09: ffffc900055cf1f8
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000ab9e41 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: ffffffff8df41a20 R15: ffff88802bdf9e80
 rcu_lock_release include/linux/rcupdate.h:341 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:897 [inline]
 class_rcu_destructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0x1ab1/0x23d0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:695
 arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6668 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c0/0x660 mm/slub.c:6876
 fuse_lookup_name+0x36d/0x860 fs/fuse/dir.c:599
 fuse_lookup+0x1f0/0x480 fs/fuse/dir.c:622
 fuse_atomic_open+0x196/0x430 fs/fuse/dir.c:941
 atomic_open fs/namei.c:4295 [inline]
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:4406 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4540 [inline]
 path_openat+0x11f8/0x3dd0 fs/namei.c:4784
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4814
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x200 fs/open.c:1430
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
 __do_sys_open fs/open.c:1444 [inline]
 __se_sys_open fs/open.c:1440 [inline]
 __x64_sys_open+0x11e/0x150 fs/open.c:1440
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff72c18f749
RSP: 002b:00007ff72d086038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff72c3e6090 RCX: 00007ff72c18f749
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000042e00 RDI: 0000200000000880
RBP: 00007ff72c213f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff72c3e6128 R14: 00007ff72c3e6090 R15: 00007ffd669fd498
 </TASK>
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:24472 pid:6020  tgid:6020  ppid:5190   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14bc/0x5000 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7190
 irqentry_exit+0x5d8/0x660 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_reschedule_ipi+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x16c/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 30 f7 44 24 30 00 02 00 00 0f 85 cd 00 00 00 f7 44 24 08 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 65 48 8b 05 d4 38 e0 10 <48> 3b 44 24 58 0f 85 e5 00 00 00 48 83 c4 60 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900053ef058 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 3ab6966dc2f44b00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 3ab6966dc2f44b00
RDX: 000000005a44979c RSI: ffffffff8d979233 RDI: ffffffff8bc08360
RBP: ffffffff81743f85 R08: ffffffff81743f85 R09: ffffffff8df41a20
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff81ada120 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8df41a20 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000246
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x23d0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf5/0x1f0 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:1395 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xdb3/0x14f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3000
 folios_put_refs+0x584/0x670 mm/swap.c:1002
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:101 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x49e/0x1490 mm/shmem.c:1137
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1249 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x26e/0xa70 mm/shmem.c:1379
 evict+0x5f4/0xae0 fs/inode.c:837
 __dentry_kill+0x209/0x660 fs/dcache.c:670
 finish_dput+0xc9/0x480 fs/dcache.c:879
 __fput+0x68e/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:476
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:44 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xff/0x4f0 kernel/entry/common.c:75
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2d0/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f8ad18a7407
RSP: 002b:00007ffcf08f0100 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f8ad1fb6880 RCX: 00007f8ad18a7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f8ad1fb66e8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000561499cd6190 R14: 0000000000000008 R15: 0000561499cf0090
 </TASK>
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:21368 pid:5823  tgid:5823  ppid:5815   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14bc/0x5000 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7190
 irqentry_exit+0x5d8/0x660 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x16c/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 30 f7 44 24 30 00 02 00 00 0f 85 cd 00 00 00 f7 44 24 08 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 65 48 8b 05 d4 38 e0 10 <48> 3b 44 24 58 0f 85 e5 00 00 00 48 83 c4 60 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003147178 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: d492098783d11b00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: d492098783d11b00
RDX: 0000000078f5f4af RSI: ffffffff8d979233 RDI: ffffffff8bc08360
RBP: ffffffff81743f85 R08: ffffffff81743f85 R09: ffffffff8df41a20
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff81ada120 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8df41a20 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000246
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc2/0x23d0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf5/0x1f0 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:1395 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xdb3/0x14f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3000
 folios_put_refs+0x584/0x670 mm/swap.c:1002
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:101 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x49e/0x1490 mm/shmem.c:1137
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1249 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x26e/0xa70 mm/shmem.c:1379
 evict+0x5f4/0xae0 fs/inode.c:837
 do_unlinkat+0x340/0x560 fs/namei.c:5443
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5474 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5472 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x47/0x50 fs/namei.c:5472
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f578698ecf7
RSP: 002b:00007ffdfaa1e778 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000057
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f578698ecf7
RDX: 00007ffdfaa1e7a0 RSI: 00007ffdfaa1e830 RDI: 00007ffdfaa1e830
RBP: 00007ffdfaa1e830 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffdfaa1f8c0
R13: 00007f5786a13d7d R14: 000000000001c8ee R15: 00007ffdfaa1f900
 </TASK>
task:syz.4.50        state:R  running task     stack:26560 pid:6132  tgid:6131  ppid:5828   task_flags:0x40044c flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14bc/0x5000 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_common+0x83/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7047
 preempt_schedule+0xae/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:7071
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk.S:12
 __raw_spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock+0x3f/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186
 spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:391 [inline]
 zap_pte_range mm/memory.c:1884 [inline]
 zap_pmd_range mm/memory.c:1946 [inline]
 zap_pud_range mm/memory.c:1975 [inline]
 zap_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1996 [inline]
 unmap_page_range+0x38bc/0x4170 mm/memory.c:2017
 unmap_single_vma mm/memory.c:2059 [inline]
 unmap_vmas+0x399/0x580 mm/memory.c:2101
 exit_mmap+0x239/0xb10 mm/mmap.c:1277
 __mmput+0x118/0x430 kernel/fork.c:1173
 exit_mm+0x1da/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:581
 do_exit+0x658/0x2310 kernel/exit.c:959
 do_group_exit+0x21c/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1112
 get_signal+0x1285/0x1340 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x9a/0x7a0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:41 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x87/0x4f0 kernel/entry/common.c:75
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2d0/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f448ad8f749
RSP: 002b:00007f448bc890e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00007f448afe5fa8 RCX: 00007f448ad8f749
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f448afe5fa8
RBP: 00007f448afe5fa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f448afe6038 R14: 00007ffd2a22c9a0 R15: 00007ffd2a22ca88
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10703 jiffies! g12005 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:27368 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14bc/0x5000 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6960
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x599/0xb30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
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 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: 5e 83 b4 f5 cc cc cc 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 93 90 0c 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <e9> 33 83 b4 f5 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197de0 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 751c131624b38d00 RBX: ffffffff81978fda RCX: 751c131624b38d00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d7925c0 RDI: ffffffff8bc08360
RBP: ffffc90000197f10 R08: ffff8880b87336db R09: 1ffff110170e66db
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170e66dc R12: ffffffff8f822070
R13: 1ffff110038d3b70 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125f35000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f69a81eef98 CR3: 0000000079fb6000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x73/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1ea/0x520 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x44/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 start_secondary+0x101/0x110 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x147
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/19 15:32 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.