INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load (3)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/17 10:36
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:low
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First crash: 261d, last: 116d
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04d1a76e assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load (3) 2026/05/23 07:50 2026/05/23 07:50 2026/05/23 08:27 c69befb3
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load kexec 1 1 2700d 2700d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/09/18 07:58
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load (2) mm 1 3 354d 415d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/21 02:39

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6389/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=18537, q=6223 ncpus=2)
task:syz.7.36        state:R  running task     stack:28024 pid:6389  tgid:6388  ppid:5988   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5387 [inline]
 __schedule+0x10e9/0x6820 kernel/sched/core.c:7188
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x50/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7512
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_preempt include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:476 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:547 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x1fe/0x790 kernel/entry/common.c:164
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:on_stack arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:59 [inline]
RIP: 0010:stack_access_ok+0x95/0x1d0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:409
Code: 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 0b 01 00 00 48 8b 43 10 49 39 ed 77 1a 48 39 e8 76 15 4a 8d 54 25 00 48 39 d0 0f 93 c0 <49> 39 d5 0f 92 c2 20 d0 75 38 48 8d 7b 28 48 8d 4b 20 48 b8 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032c7958 EFLAGS: 00000216
RAX: ffffc900032c8001 RBX: ffffc900032c79f8 RCX: ffffffff92305b40
RDX: ffffc900032c7f48 RSI: ffffc900032c7f40 RDI: ffffc900032c7a08
RBP: ffffc900032c7f40 R08: ffffffff92305b44 R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 00000000000a9481 R12: 0000000000000008
R13: ffffc900032c0000 R14: ffffc900032c7f48 R15: ffffc900032c7a2c
 deref_stack_reg arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:419 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xcf5/0x2090 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:614
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x162/0x1e0 mm/page_owner.c:165
 __reset_page_owner+0x84/0x190 mm/page_owner.c:320
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1404 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x747/0x1040 mm/page_alloc.c:2945
 kimage_free_page_list+0x130/0x240 kernel/kexec_core.c:325
 kimage_alloc_normal_control_pages kernel/kexec_core.c:390 [inline]
 kimage_alloc_control_pages+0x3f2/0xa20 kernel/kexec_core.c:471
 kimage_alloc_init kernel/kexec.c:67 [inline]
 do_kexec_load+0x275/0x810 kernel/kexec.c:130
 __do_sys_kexec_load kernel/kexec.c:261 [inline]
 __se_sys_kexec_load kernel/kexec.c:242 [inline]
 __x64_sys_kexec_load+0x1bf/0x230 kernel/kexec.c:242
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x10b/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f7223d9c819
RSP: 002b:00007f7224bb4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000f6
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7224015fa0 RCX: 00007f7223d9c819
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f7223e32c91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7224016038 R14: 00007f7224015fa0 R15: 00007ffdb3f28df8
 </TASK>
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:b6:1c:87:c9:4e:44, vlan:0)

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/18 10:27 upstream 8541d8f725c6 5be7a9de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load
2026/04/11 08:22 upstream 7c6c4ed80b87 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load
2026/03/07 13:19 upstream 4ae12d8bd9a8 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load
2026/01/12 23:19 upstream 0f61b1860cc3 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load
2025/12/25 13:56 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load
2025/11/24 00:11 upstream d0e88704d96c 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_kexec_load
2025/12/18 13:54 linux-next 1058ca9db0ed d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kexec_load
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.