INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/30 08:33
Reported-by: syzbot+199dd69d4d7ea23a46c0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 76d, last: 2d21h
Similar bugs (19)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (2) mm 1 2 2477d 2477d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:14
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (6) mm 1 3 1006d 1053d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/11 17:33
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg 1 2 781d 828d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/01 14:13
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (3) 1 3 193d 289d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/13 03:55
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (4) origin:lts-only 1 syz, C inconclusive 7 256d 339d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/10 08:45
linux-6.1 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg 1 2 1171d 1200d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/08 22:57
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg 1 1 1258d 1258d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/02 15:37
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (3) kernel 1 3 1711d 1811d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (2) 1 1 858d 858d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/17 11:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (5) net 1 3 1197d 1210d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/03 00:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (3) 1 16 499d 719d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/10 13:38
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (7) prio:high mm net 1 147 15d 652d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2024/11/30 18:05
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (2) 1 1 479d 479d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/31 10:43
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg net 1 2 2561d 2561d 13/29 fixed on 2019/10/09 10:54
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (4) net 1 1 1510d 1510d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/25 00:28
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg 1 1 841d 841d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/24 08:55
android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg 1 1 1053d 1053d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/25 01:21
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg 1 2 756d 756d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/17 00:13
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg (2) 1 syz error 20 1d06h 629d 0/2 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2024/12/23 13:44

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=20bc/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=89197/89198 fqs=1
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=129193, q=35 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 21990 Comm: syz.8.5217 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:check_wait_context kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4789 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x72b/0x7d80 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5087
Code: 73 01 00 00 44 89 fb 81 e3 ff ff ff 7f 83 f8 31 73 46 48 8d 04 9b 49 8d 9c c5 08 0b 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 00 <84> c0 75 45 8b 1b 48 8b 44 24 58 42 0f b6 04 00 84 c0 75 55 48 8b
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001f08e0 EFLAGS: 00000802
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88802e946508 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff911ef500
RBP: ffffc900001f0b28 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff223dea0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff223dea1 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff88802e945a00 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007fecf8ea96c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00002000000bf038 CR3: 00000000374b7000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 000000000000005e DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 lock_acquire+0x19e/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 advance_sched+0x9f3/0xc70 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:1002
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x525/0xc10 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1818
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x39d/0x980 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1880
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1077 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xfb/0x3b0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1094
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9f/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x208/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3c 04 f8 0f 85 f0 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3c 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3c 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004297300 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0ff17f3225195c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acade60 RDI: ffffffff8b1d35e0
RBP: ffffc90004297418 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff223dea0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff223dea1 R12: 1ffff92000852e6c
R13: ffffffff8d1320e0 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 percpu_ref_put_many include/linux/percpu-refcount.h:330 [inline]
 percpu_ref_put+0x2e/0x100 include/linux/percpu-refcount.h:351
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1af/0x310 mm/slub.c:3540
 __alloc_skb+0x103/0x2c0 net/core/skbuff.c:643
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1316 [inline]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xcd/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:6353
 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x883/0x9a0 net/core/sock.c:2829
 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x5a9/0x16e0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2003
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x61b/0x980 net/socket.c:2595
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a6/0x360 net/socket.c:2649
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x2ca/0x510 net/socket.c:2735
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2764 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2761 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2761
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fecf7f9e159
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:00007fecf8ea9028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fecf8225fa0 RCX: 00007fecf7f9e159
RDX: 0492492492492846 RSI: 00002000000bd000 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fecf803503b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fecf8226038 R14: 00007fecf8225fa0 R15: 00007ffc1249f028
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10500 jiffies! g129193 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:26664 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6775
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x30d/0x1590 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1866
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 0 PID: 14986 Comm: kworker/u4:44 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:311 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xd8a/0x1190 kernel/smp.c:855
Code: 89 f6 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 14 01 0b 00 41 83 e6 01 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 07 e8 4f fd 0a 00 eb 38 f3 90 42 0f b6 04 33 <84> c0 75 11 41 f7 04 24 01 00 00 00 74 1e e8 33 fd 0a 00 eb e4 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000c76f780 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff110171e83e1 RCX: ffff888023ef0000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000c76f900 R08: ffffffff911ef507 R09: 1ffffffff223dea0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff223dea1 R12: ffff8880b8f41f08
R13: ffff8880b8e3d380 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00002000001f7000 CR3: 000000000cf32000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3f/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1022
 on_each_cpu include/linux/smp.h:71 [inline]
 text_poke_sync arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2222 [inline]
 text_poke_bp_batch+0x31e/0x980 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2432
 text_poke_flush arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2623 [inline]
 text_poke_finish+0x30/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2630
 arch_jump_label_transform_apply+0x1c/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:146
 static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x123/0x240 kernel/jump_label.c:207
 static_key_enable+0x1a/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:220
 toggle_allocation_gate+0xa8/0x260 mm/kfence/core.c:847
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/11 15:00 linux-6.6.y 8b73de7da85f b6a5eeb7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg
2026/06/30 13:27 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 fff8d0a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg
2026/06/30 08:32 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 fff8d0a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.