INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call (3)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/09 02:43
Subsystems: kasan mm
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 167d, last: 167d
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4d9898e4 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call (3) 2026/05/25 20:17 2026/05/25 20:17 2026/05/25 20:59 c69befb3
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call (2) mm 1 2 292d 297d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/04 02:09
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call kasan mm 1 1 678d 678d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/13 15:30

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P1104/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=236533, q=159 ncpus=2)
task:syz.3.8483      state:R  running task     stack:26152 pid:1104  tgid:1104  ppid:24502  task_flags:0x40004c flags:0x08080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15dd/0x52d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6908
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7235
 irqentry_exit+0x599/0x620 kernel/entry/common.c:239
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0xd34/0x23c0 arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:-1
Code: 89 dd 49 c1 ed 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 80 7c 05 00 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 06 4e b9 00 48 89 5c 24 60 4c 89 64 24 18 <49> 8d 5c 24 f8 4d 8b 66 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8b 4c
RSP: 0000:ffffc900053ff4b8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffc900053ff598 RCX: ffffffff90328864
RDX: ffffffff90b2f1d2 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffffffff8c27b4a0
RBP: 1ffff92000a7feb2 R08: 0000000000000009 R09: ffffffff8e75e420
R10: ffffc900053ff5d8 R11: ffffffff81b0bfa0 R12: ffffc900053ff9a0
R13: 1ffff92000a7feb3 R14: ffffc900053ff588 R15: ffffc900053f8000
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 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
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x31c/0x660 mm/slub.c:5383
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2644 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6168 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x15b/0x630 mm/slub.c:6298
 tear_down_vmas+0x312/0x520 mm/mmap.c:1264
 exit_mmap+0x4b6/0xa10 mm/mmap.c:1322
 __mmput+0x118/0x430 kernel/fork.c:1174
 exit_mm+0x168/0x220 kernel/exit.c:581
 do_exit+0x6a2/0x23c0 kernel/exit.c:964
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1118
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1129 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1127 [inline]
 __ia32_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1127
 ia32_sys_call+0x222e/0x2230 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:253
 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]
 __do_fast_syscall_32+0x20d/0x640 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:307
 do_fast_syscall_32+0x33/0x70 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:332
 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
RIP: 0023:0xf7ff3f6c
RSP: 002b:00000000f75dfd4c EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000fc
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffffff9c RDI: 00000000f7226d99
RBP: 00000000f7482ff4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10494 jiffies! g236533 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:27656 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15dd/0x52d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6908
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6990 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7005
 schedule_timeout+0x158/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x312/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 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:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1146 Comm: kworker/u8:11 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/27/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x0/0x70 kernel/kcov.c:210
Code: 89 fb e8 23 00 00 00 48 8b 3d 24 42 55 0c 48 89 de 5b e9 53 89 5e 00 cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 <f3> 0f 1e fa 48 8b 04 24 65 48 8b 0d 48 32 56 11 65 8b 15 69 32 56
RSP: 0000:ffffc90004e0f718 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff110170c8515 RCX: ffff888028b49e80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90004e0f860 R08: ffffffff90118cb7 R09: 1ffffffff2023196
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2023197 R12: ffff8880b86428a8
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b873bf80 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125563000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000801e1018 CR3: 000000000e54c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: ffffffffffffffff DR1: 00000000000001f8 DR2: 0000000000000083
DR3: 0000000000000030 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:342 [inline]
 smp_call_function_many_cond+0xcfd/0x12c0 kernel/smp.c:877
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3f/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1043
 on_each_cpu include/linux/smp.h:72 [inline]
 smp_text_poke_sync_each_cpu arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2761 [inline]
 smp_text_poke_batch_finish+0x5f5/0x1160 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2971
 arch_jump_label_transform_apply+0x1c/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:146
 static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x128/0x240 kernel/jump_label.c:210
 static_key_enable+0x1a/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:223
 toggle_allocation_gate+0xab/0x290 mm/kfence/core.c:900
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3275 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb02/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3358
 worker_thread+0xa50/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3439
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 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
2026/03/11 02:41 upstream b4f0dd314b39 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in ia32_sys_call
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.