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INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (4)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/09 14:58
Reported-by: syzbot+16566e2176db580ec63f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 159d, last: 2d10h
Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon kernel 1 C error inconclusive 1904 1392d 1971d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/10/12 18:37
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (3) 1 1 179d 179d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/28 14:14
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon 1 1 850d 850d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/28 07:17
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (3) 1 3 503d 510d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/08 17:17
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) 1 1 388d 388d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/03 16:43
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon 1 3 503d 528d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/08 20:04
upstream BUG: soft lockup in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) wireless 1 C error inconclusive 163 2d21h 706d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/11 14:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon (2) 1 1 726d 726d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/30 17:39
upstream BUG: soft lockup in mac80211_hwsim_beacon wireless 1 syz error unreliable 180 1392d 1964d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/21 14:41

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=40b/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=83867/83876 fqs=5244 
	(t=10501 jiffies g=121837 q=1628)
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 26879 Comm: syz.7.7408 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 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_dump_cpu_stacks+0x22f/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:349
 print_cpu_stall+0x31d/0x5f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:633
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:727 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x6ea/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: 0010:kasan_get_alloc_meta mm/kasan/common.c:234 [inline]
RIP: 0010:set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:432 [inline]
RIP: 0010:____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__kasan_kmalloc+0x72/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
Code: 48 83 cf 07 41 8b 47 1c 48 8d 74 03 ff 48 83 ce 07 48 29 fe 48 ff c7 ba fc 00 00 00 31 c9 e8 25 20 00 00 4d 63 a7 bc 00 00 00 <4d> 85 e4 0f 94 c0 49 01 dc 0f 94 c1 08 c1 75 4f 65 48 8b 05 f6 5e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000075a0 EFLAGS: 00000247
RAX: ffffed100ce8efc0 RBX: ffff888067477c00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000fc RDI: ffffed100ce8efc0
RBP: ffffc900000077c0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed100ce8efc0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203a43a R12: 0000000000000200
R13: 0000000000020a20 R14: 00000000000a2a20 R15: ffff888016c41c80
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:356 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x22c/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:427
 __netdev_alloc_skb+0x110/0x4c0 net/core/skbuff.c:494
 netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3024 [inline]
 dev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3037 [inline]
 __ieee80211_beacon_get+0xaa1/0x2000 net/mac80211/tx.c:5088
 ieee80211_beacon_get_tim+0x48/0x840 net/mac80211/tx.c:5202
 ieee80211_beacon_get include/net/mac80211.h:4983 [inline]
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon_tx+0xf4/0x920 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1812
 __iterate_interfaces+0x243/0x500 net/mac80211/util.c:793
 ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0xb3/0x140 net/mac80211/util.c:829
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0x9b/0x180 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1865
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4eb/0xb70 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x176/0x240 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1766
 handle_softirqs+0x339/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:generic_exec_single+0x373/0x460 kernel/smp.c:532
Code: df eb 27 e8 7f 6c 0b 00 0f 0b e9 b6 fd ff ff e8 73 6c 0b 00 e8 fe 62 4e 08 48 85 db 0f 84 5c ff ff ff e8 60 6c 0b 00 fb 31 c0 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4b c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3d
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002f3fa60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000200 RCX: ffff888020c6bb80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90002f3fb30 R08: ffffffff901d21cf R09: 1ffffffff203a439
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203a43a R12: ffffc90002f3fb88
R13: 1ffff920005e7f50 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
 smp_call_function_single+0x202/0x4c0 kernel/smp.c:755
 task_function_call kernel/events/core.c:120 [inline]
 perf_install_in_context+0x5c7/0x920 kernel/events/core.c:3016
 __do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:12793 [inline]
 __se_sys_perf_event_open+0x12b3/0x1bb0 kernel/events/core.c:12387
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f8b44780f79
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f8b429db028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8b449fafa0 RCX: 00007f8b44780f79
RDX: ffffffffffffffff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000200000000480
RBP: 00007f8b448177e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8b449fb038 R14: 00007f8b449fafa0 R15: 00007ffcef50b5b8
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/14 01:57 linux-5.15.y e45d5d41c134 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon
2026/01/19 05:09 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon
2025/12/19 16:36 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon
2025/11/18 00:10 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 ef766cd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon
2025/09/09 14:57 linux-5.15.y 7a6c2d093c45 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in mac80211_hwsim_beacon
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.