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INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (6)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/28 01:12
Subsystems: cgroups mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+774c2dfaebdf78f984c5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 431d, last: 1d22h
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[syzbot] Monthly cgroups report (Jun 2026) 0 (1) 2026/06/06 12:32
[syzbot] [cgroups?] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (6) 0 (1) 2026/05/28 01:12
Similar bugs (18)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 origin:lts-only 1 C inconclusive 2 193d 258d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/02 07:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (5) mm 1 7 534d 743d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/30 08:38
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 mm 1 2 1617d 1643d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:10
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (2) 1 1 108d 108d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/09 00:21
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 1 2 315d 350d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/14 02:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (2) kernfs 1 1 1465d 1465d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/10 23:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (3) kernel 1 1 1214d 1214d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/19 23:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (4) mm net 1 2 1028d 1107d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/22 09:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (3) mm 1 26 458d 652d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/14 09:25
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (3) 1 3 571d 630d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/02 13:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 kernfs 1 1 1486d 1486d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/20 13:01
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 1 1 620d 620d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/12 11:21
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) mm 1 3 751d 854d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/25 02:20
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 1 1 893d 889d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/04/15 06:45
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (4) 1 1 433d 433d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/18 19:29
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) 1 1 488d 488d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/25 09:12
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) 1 1 753d 753d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/01 21:33
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone3 1 1 160d 160d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/07 17:52

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=ee1c/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=143391/143392 fqs=1
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10506 jiffies, g=166889, q=363 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 24894 Comm: syz.7.4364 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:bytes_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:100 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:115 [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+0x170/0x1e0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
Code: 48 85 c0 75 9d 48 89 da 4c 89 d8 4c 29 da e9 32 ff ff ff 48 85 d2 74 98 48 01 ea eb 1a 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 <48> 83 c0 01 48 39 d0 0f 84 79 ff ff ff 80 38 00 74 ee e9 57 ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a08d08 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: fffffbfff366af73 RBX: fffffbfff366af74 RCX: ffffffff81e4e1a3
RDX: fffffbfff366af74 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffffff9b357b98
RBP: fffffbfff366af73 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff366af73
R10: ffffffff9b357b9b R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffff88805b434300 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff920001411b0
FS:  0000555580cdf500(0000) GS:ffff888124487000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555580cf2a08 CR3: 000000009ef66000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000008 DR1: 0000000000000002 DR2: 0000000000000404
DR3: ffffffffefffff14 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
 atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 [inline]
 queued_spin_is_locked include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:57 [inline]
 debug_spin_unlock kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:101 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_unlock+0x53/0x1e0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:141
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:177 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x22/0x80 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:198
 debug_object_activate+0x331/0x490 lib/debugobjects.c:891
 debug_hrtimer_activate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:485 [inline]
 debug_activate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:528 [inline]
 enqueue_hrtimer+0x75/0x2f0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1109
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1946 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x73d/0xa00 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1994
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3e5/0x940 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2113
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x10b/0x460 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1067
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9e/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:179 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x31/0x80 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:198
Code: f5 53 48 8b 74 24 10 48 89 fb 48 83 c7 18 e8 d6 0e 58 f6 48 89 df e8 ae 5e 58 f6 f7 c5 00 02 00 00 75 23 9c 58 f6 c4 02 75 37 <bf> 01 00 00 00 e8 b5 2a 48 f6 65 8b 05 6e 0d 7d 08 85 c0 74 16 5b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005cdf868 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffffffff8e978800 RCX: 0000000000000040
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8df0fe0d RDI: ffffffff8c1c4780
RBP: 0000000000000206 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000009224
 spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:408 [inline]
 pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x7e8/0x1cc0 mm/percpu.c:1864
 futex_hash_allocate+0xc01/0x1040 kernel/futex/core.c:1809
 futex_hash_allocate_default+0x2ca/0x5b0 kernel/futex/core.c:1924
 copy_process+0x5ef6/0x7ed0 kernel/fork.c:2386
 kernel_clone+0x176/0x9e0 kernel/fork.c:2722
 __do_sys_clone3+0x214/0x290 kernel/fork.c:3024
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f9e1fb9dc49
Code: 90 b8 01 00 00 00 b9 01 00 00 00 eb ec 0f 1f 40 00 b8 ea ff ff ff 48 85 ff 74 28 48 85 d2 74 23 49 89 c8 b8 b3 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 85 c0 7c 14 74 01 c3 31 ed 4c 89 c7 ff d2 48 89 c7 b8 3c 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007ffd7b307f68 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b3
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9e1fb591e0 RCX: 00007f9e1fb9dc49
RDX: 00007f9e1fb591e0 RSI: 0000000000000058 RDI: 00007ffd7b307fc0
RBP: 00007f9e20b246c0 R08: 00007f9e20b246c0 R09: 00007ffd7b3080a7
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: ffffffffffffffe8
R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007ffd7b307fc0 R15: 00007ffd7b3080a8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10500 jiffies! g166889 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:27976 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5388 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1295/0x67a0 kernel/sched/core.c:7189
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7268 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x390 kernel/sched/core.c:7283
 schedule_timeout+0x127/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1a9/0x900 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x179/0x230 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 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: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14484 Comm: kworker/u8:23 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x2a/0x70 kernel/kcov.c:235
Code: f3 0f 1e fa 65 8b 05 a5 de 00 12 48 8b 34 24 65 48 8b 15 81 de 00 12 a9 00 01 ff 00 74 1b f6 c4 01 74 07 a9 00 00 ff 00 74 05 <c3> cc cc cc cc 8b 82 ec 16 00 00 85 c0 74 f1 8b 82 c8 16 00 00 83
RSP: 0018:ffffc900066e7868 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff81fc2dfd
RDX: ffff888053d20000 RSI: ffffffff81fc2dd7 RDI: ffff888053d20000
RBP: ffff8880b8541180 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: ffffed10170a8231 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff8880b843c800
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124387000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007eff1cc04ff8 CR3: 000000000e596000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000008 DR1: 0000000000000002 DR2: 0000000000000404
DR3: ffffffffefffff14 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 native_pause arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/processor.h:13 [inline]
 cpu_relax arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/processor.h:18 [inline]
 csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:342 [inline]
 smp_call_function_many_cond+0x587/0x1700 kernel/smp.c:892
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x40/0x90 kernel/smp.c:1057
 on_each_cpu include/linux/smp.h:72 [inline]
 smp_text_poke_sync_each_cpu arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2773 [inline]
 smp_text_poke_batch_finish+0x337/0xc60 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2983
 arch_jump_label_transform_apply+0x1c/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:146
 jump_label_update+0x37a/0x550 kernel/jump_label.c:910
 static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x1bc/0x270 kernel/jump_label.c:210
 static_key_enable+0x1a/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:223
 toggle_allocation_gate mm/kfence/core.c:906 [inline]
 toggle_allocation_gate+0xfe/0x2d0 mm/kfence/core.c:898
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (33):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/15 11:21 upstream 8cd9520d35a6 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/05/26 00:57 upstream e8c2f9fdadee c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/05/20 23:50 upstream df685633c3db 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/05/09 16:12 upstream 70390501d194 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/04/03 17:21 upstream d8a9a4b11a13 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/04/02 17:43 upstream 9147566d8016 8b15d4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/16 10:43 upstream f338e7738378 64e21424 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/02/02 15:59 upstream 18f7fcd5e69a 018ebef2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/01/12 01:45 upstream 9c7ef209cd0f d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/12/26 21:03 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/14 23:51 upstream 9b332cece987 b6605ba8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/12 03:56 upstream 67029a49db6c ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/08 12:52 upstream 0d97f2067c16 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/07/26 22:27 upstream 5f33ebd2018c fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/06/04 02:35 upstream 546b1c9e93c2 a30356b7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/05/08 22:32 upstream d76bb1ebb558 dbf35fa1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/04/29 00:14 upstream f15d97df5afa c6b4fb39 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/04/11 23:52 upstream 900241a5cc15 12ba9c21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/06/04 17:03 net c05fa14db43e 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/05/24 00:58 net 87a1e0fe7776 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/04/26 11:37 net e728258debd5 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/26 02:07 net c4ea7d8907cf c6143aac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/16 21:33 net 43d222fbcdff 0737c18f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/10 04:24 net 7a85d370bbd0 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/05 07:33 net 126fe7ef12ff a9fe5c9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/02/17 23:25 net 77c5e3fdd279 39751c21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/27 11:51 net 84a905290cb4 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/07/28 08:38 net afd8c2c9e2e2 fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/11/25 09:12 net-next 00f3b3251814 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/06/15 22:21 net-next 8909f5f4ecd5 5f4b362d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/12/30 00:19 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/03 23:32 linux-next 47a8d4b89844 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/09/20 03:24 linux-next 846bd2225ec3 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.