INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu (3)

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/07/10 14:29
Reported-by: syzbot+032923af5bc587515ae5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 21d, last: 9d16h
Similar bugs (16)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu (3) 1 syz, C done done 374 1263d 2200d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu origin:lts-only 1 syz, C unreliable 56 24d 1218d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/04/01 04:49
android-49 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu 1 1 2436d 2436d 0/3 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/03/28 16:57
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu vfs 1 syz, C error 162 1277d 2459d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2019/11/07 04:32
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu 1 syz, C error 70 1266d 2457d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2019/11/08 21:27
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu 1 1 1203d 1203d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/14 02:05
android-6-12 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu 1 41 261d 385d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/01 15:51
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu (3) origin:lts-only 1 syz, C error 56 7d23h 736d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/07/26 03:55
upstream INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu 1 syz done 1206 2436d 2462d 14/29 fixed on 2019/11/29 15:48
upstream INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu (4) prio:high fs net 1 syz, C done error 4188 12m 1185d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/05/04 02:01
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu (2) 1 1 891d 891d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/31 13:53
android-414 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu 1 1 2454d 2454d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/03/10 10:42
upstream INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu (2) trace 1 8 2435d 2436d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/11/30 16:54
linux-6.6 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu 1 10 12h12m 274d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/10/30 17:16
android-6-12 INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu (2) 1 5 126d 167d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/25 10:28
upstream INFO: task hung in rtnetlink_rcv_msg net 1 syz, C inconclusive inconclusive 1970 753d 2716d 26/29 fixed on 2024/07/09 19:14

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz-executor:5342 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor    state:D stack:0     pid:5342  tgid:5342  ppid:1      flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:6060 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1496/0x20b0 kernel/sched/core.c:7873
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7950 [inline]
 schedule+0xc5/0x240 kernel/sched/core.c:7965
 synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x6e2/0x960 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:994
 namespace_unlock+0x248/0x450 fs/namespace.c:1720
 drop_collected_mounts fs/namespace.c:2248 [inline]
 put_mnt_ns+0xad/0xf0 fs/namespace.c:5655
 free_nsproxy+0x52/0x290 kernel/nsproxy.c:193
 put_nsproxy include/linux/nsproxy.h:118 [inline]
 switch_task_namespaces kernel/nsproxy.c:251 [inline]
 exit_task_namespaces+0x99/0xe0 kernel/nsproxy.c:256
 do_exit+0xa41/0x2850 kernel/exit.c:954
 do_group_exit+0x21f/0x2f0 kernel/exit.c:1098
 get_signal+0x134c/0x1490 kernel/signal.c:2933
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x700 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:111 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:328 [inline]
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x57/0xb0 kernel/entry/common.c:218
 do_syscall_64+0x63/0xf0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fad90f59017
RSP: 002b:00007ffdd696bd40 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: 000000000000002c RBX: 00005555748ee500 RCX: 00007fad90f59017
RDX: 000000000000002c RSI: 00007fad91d54670 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 00007ffdd696bda4 R09: 000000000000000c
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007fad91d54670 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 37 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 e661c05697932dc72467e0ff9a1babb7f2c48647
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/25/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:94
 dump_stack_lvl+0x140/0x1c0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 dump_stack+0x19/0x20 lib/dump_stack.c:129
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x2ba/0x2d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x142/0x2c0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x14/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c:41
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:158 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:267 [inline]
 watchdog+0xe45/0xf90 kernel/hung_task.c:423
 kthread+0x2c7/0x360 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x67/0xa0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 33 Comm: rcuop/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 e661c05697932dc72467e0ff9a1babb7f2c48647
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/25/2026
RIP: 0010:unwind_get_return_address+0x5a/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c:19
Code: 83 c3 48 49 89 df 49 c1 ef 03 43 80 3c 37 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 17 95 9b 00 48 8b 3b e8 0f 66 13 00 85 c0 74 14 43 80 3c 37 00 <74> 08 48 89 df e8 fc 94 9b 00 48 8b 03 eb 02 31 c0 5b 41 5e 41 5f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000230200 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffc90000230270 RCX: 0000000000046000
RDX: ffffc90000227b01 RSI: ffffc90000228000 RDI: ffffffff81508a94
RBP: ffffc90000230218 R08: ffffc90000230201 R09: ffffc900002302e8
R10: 000000000000000e R11: ffffffff81759c90 R12: ffff88810367df00
R13: 0000000009445901 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff9200004604e
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc3b4d55000 CR3: 00000000074aa000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
DR0: 0000000000000013 DR1: 00000000000001f8 DR2: 0000000000000084
DR3: ffffffffefffff15 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 arch_stack_walk+0x10a/0x170 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 stack_trace_save+0xaa/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:49 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:70
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x3a/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:565
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:321 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x73/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:347
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:251 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4202 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4251 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x1bf/0x410 mm/slub.c:4260
 skb_clone+0x21d/0x470 net/core/skbuff.c:2079
 deliver_clone net/bridge/br_forward.c:125 [inline]
 maybe_deliver net/bridge/br_forward.c:191 [inline]
 br_flood+0x4df/0x720 net/bridge/br_forward.c:237
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x1157/0x1620 net/bridge/br_input.c:215
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:301 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x5a5/0xba0 net/bridge/br_input.c:424
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xfc4/0x3a70 net/core/dev.c:5695
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5799 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:5914 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x40b/0xaf0 net/core/dev.c:6250
 __napi_poll+0xd0/0x600 net/core/dev.c:6901
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6970 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x5dc/0xd70 net/core/dev.c:7092
 handle_softirqs+0x1aa/0x620 kernel/softirq.c:621
 __do_softirq+0xf/0x16 kernel/softirq.c:659
 do_softirq+0xb8/0x110 kernel/softirq.c:503
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x74/0x80 kernel/softirq.c:430
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 rcu_do_batch+0x590/0xcb0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2594
 nocb_cb_wait kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h:923 [inline]
 rcu_nocb_cb_kthread+0x533/0xb60 kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h:957
 kthread+0x2c7/0x360 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x67/0xa0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
 </TASK>
net_ratelimit: 92720 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:52:69:9b:ae:39:04, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:52:69:9b:ae:39:04, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:52:69:9b:ae:39:04, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:52:69:9b:ae:39:04, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
net_ratelimit: 104669 callbacks suppressed
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:52:69:9b:ae:39:04, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:52:69:9b:ae:39:04, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:52:69:9b:ae:39:04, vlan:0)
ICMPv6: NA: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c advertised our address fe80::a8aa:aaff:feaa:aa1c on veth1_to_bridge!
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/22 16:51 android16-6.12 b739cd4ffbe5 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu
2026/07/10 14:28 android16-6.12 0e0925f37543 99e64375 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust INFO: task hung in synchronize_rcu
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.