rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: rcu: Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P4227/1:b..l (detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=5661, q=724) task:kworker/0:3 state:R running task stack:24824 pid: 4227 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000 Workqueue: events_power_efficient gc_worker Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline] __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6799 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+0x208/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5627 Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 04 f8 0f 85 f1 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 43 c7 44 3d 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 RSP: 0018:ffffc900030af9a0 EFLAGS: 00000206 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 685f09eb9ea41b00 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b3a20 RDI: ffffffff8a79f740 RBP: ffffc900030afac0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff203a418 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203a419 R12: ffffffff8c31eaa0 R13: 1ffff92000615f40 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:313 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:740 [inline] gc_worker+0x25c/0x1390 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1470 process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310 worker_thread+0xaa6/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2457 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287 rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10520 jiffies! g5661 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:27608 pid: 15 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline] __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2117 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2be/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9b/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287 rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran: NMI backtrace for cpu 1 CPU: 1 PID: 4394 Comm: syz.1.25 Not tainted syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 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+0x1110/0x1270 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline] rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline] rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x843/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021 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:1685 [inline] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4ad/0xb70 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811 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+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676 RIP: 0033:0x7f4bafa6a510 Code: 83 c0 16 83 e0 f7 74 12 50 48 8d 3d 4a 27 07 00 e8 e5 65 f9 ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 <83> ff 21 74 0b c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 53 48 89 f3 48 RSP: 002b:00007f4badca4b38 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f4bafcc4fa8 RCX: 00007f4bafa4af79 RDX: 00007f4badca4b40 RSI: 00007f4badca4c70 RDI: 0000000000000021 RBP: 00007f4bafcc4fa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007f4bafcc5038 R14: 00007ffed34ce040 R15: 00007ffed34ce128