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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (5)

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/10/18 11:28
Subsystems: mm fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+23e14ec82f3c8692eaa9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 429d, last: 3d20h
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit 5a781ccbd19e4664babcbe4b4ead7aa2b9283d22
Author: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Date: Sat Sep 29 00:59:43 2018 +0000

  tc: Add support for configuring the taprio scheduler

Crash: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in taprio_dequeue (log)
Repro: syz .config
  
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[syzbot] [fs?] INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (5) 0 (2) 2025/01/15 08:39
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) kernel 1 3 954d 1014d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/24 08:02
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink 1 1 724d 724d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/08 09:32
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink fs 1 1 1218d 1218d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/07/22 05:22
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) 1 3 388d 413d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/07 23:07
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (4) fs 1 2 628d 632d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/02 18:22
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (2) 1 2 36d 64d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/06/20 10:17
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink 1 4 197d 388d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/18 03:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (3) bpf fs 1 2 830d 836d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/14 04:05
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (3) 1 3 59d 192d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/02/12 04:41
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_readlink 1 2 439d 497d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/08 11:06
Last patch testing requests (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/07/30 07:19 2h31m retest repro net-next report log
2025/05/07 03:04 21m retest repro net-next report log
2025/02/06 23:20 2h50m retest repro net-next report log
2024/11/13 05:15 17m retest repro https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing OK log
Fix bisection attempts (3)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/08 22:00 2h14m bisect fix net-next OK (0) job log log
2025/05/20 22:09 2h36m bisect fix net-next OK (0) job log log
2025/02/25 13:43 2h11m bisect fix net-next OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (2 ticks this GP) idle=118c/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=19192/19199 fqs=1
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10504 jiffies, g=13697, q=690 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5232 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:taprio_set_budgets+0x1bc/0x3b0 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:674
Code: 25 f8 41 bd ff ff ff 7f 4d 89 f7 e9 9c 00 00 00 e8 19 30 25 f8 4c 89 e8 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 80 3c 08 00 <4d> 89 f7 74 08 4c 89 ef e8 47 99 88 f8 4d 69 6d 00 e8 03 00 00 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a08c00 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 1ffff110043d5600 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200014117c R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888021eab000 R14: ffff888021eab000 R15: 00000000000000ff
FS:  00007fe159d47880(0000) GS:ffff888125d1b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000600 CR3: 00000000507e0000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 advance_sched+0x963/0xc90 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:982
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1761 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x52c/0xc60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1825
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x45b/0xaa0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1887
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1039 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x108/0x410 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa1/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702
RIP: 0010:do_inode_permission fs/namei.c:524 [inline]
RIP: 0010:inode_permission+0x66/0x470 fs/namei.c:593
Code: e5 02 0f 85 1d 01 00 00 e8 b7 c3 88 ff 49 8d 6e 02 49 89 ec 49 c1 ec 03 43 0f b6 04 3c 84 c0 0f 85 0d 03 00 00 44 0f b7 7d 00 <44> 89 fe 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 2d c7 88 ff 41 83 e7 01 0f 84 8c 01 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003097a80 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000081 RCX: ffff8880506e9e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff888148cf8c2a R08: ffff88801dea9c20 R09: ffff888022e4c2f0
R10: ffff88801dea9c20 R11: ffff888022e4c2f0 R12: 1ffff1102919f185
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888148cf8c28 R15: 000000000000002b
 may_lookup fs/namei.c:1836 [inline]
 link_path_walk+0x232/0xea0 fs/namei.c:2445
 path_lookupat+0x97/0x430 fs/namei.c:2653
 filename_lookup+0x212/0x570 fs/namei.c:2683
 do_readlinkat+0xd9/0x500 fs/stat.c:576
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:613 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:610 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x7f/0x90 fs/stat.c:610
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe1597153a7
Code: 00 00 90 48 83 ec 10 48 63 ff 45 31 c9 45 31 c0 6a 00 31 c9 e8 8a 20 f9 ff 48 83 c4 18 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 59 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 8b 15 21 ba 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffdb8e62a78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000059
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffdb8e62f50 RCX: 00007fe1597153a7
RDX: 0000000000000400 RSI: 00007ffdb8e62a80 RDI: 00007ffdb8e62f50
RBP: 00007ffdb8e62a80 R08: 000055dccced4034 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000400
R13: 0000000000000100 R14: 000055dca8f7fbe0 R15: 00007ffdb8e639d0
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10499 jiffies! g13697 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:27160 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5357 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6961
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7043 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7058
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x3f9/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 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: 5977 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:194 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x37/0x70 kernel/kcov.c:217
Code: 08 50 a0 92 65 8b 15 e8 a3 e0 10 81 e2 00 01 ff 00 74 11 81 fa 00 01 00 00 75 35 83 b9 3c 16 00 00 00 74 2c 8b 91 18 16 00 00 <83> fa 02 75 21 48 8b 91 20 16 00 00 48 8b 32 48 8d 7e 01 8b 89 1c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003e4f538 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff81b44deb RBX: 1ffff110170e7f61 RCX: ffff88802bd55a00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90003e4f6c0 R08: ffffffff8fa37e37 R09: 1ffffffff1f46fc6
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f46fc7 R12: ffff8880b873fb08
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b863b1c0 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  000055558ad41500(0000) GS:ffff888125c1b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fed09ce56c0 CR3: 0000000027fb2000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:342 [inline]
 smp_call_function_many_cond+0xd4b/0x12d0 kernel/smp.c:877
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3f/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1044
 __flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:91 [inline]
 flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1361 [inline]
 flush_tlb_mm_range+0x6b1/0x12d0 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1451
 dup_mmap+0x15a0/0x1ac0 mm/mmap.c:1873
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1485 [inline]
 copy_mm+0x13c/0x4b0 kernel/fork.c:1537
 copy_process+0x1706/0x3c00 kernel/fork.c:2175
 kernel_clone+0x21e/0x840 kernel/fork.c:2605
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2748 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2732 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x18b/0x1e0 kernel/fork.c:2732
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fed08f85453
Code: 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 64 48 8b 04 25 10 00 00 00 45 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 bf 11 00 20 01 4c 8d 90 d0 02 00 00 b8 38 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 89 c2 85 c0 75 2c 64 48 8b 04 25 10 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007ffd1ac54da8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fed08f85453
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 000055558ad417d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00000000000927c0 R14: 000000000001c0d8 R15: 00007ffd1ac54f40
 </TASK>

Crashes (32):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/19 18:44 net 01792bc3e5bd 523f460e .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/01/12 00:17 net-next 7dc8f809b87d 6dbc6a9b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/06/24 21:27 upstream 78f4e737a53e 26d77996 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/04/10 12:02 upstream 3b07108ada81 988b336c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/11/15 08:02 upstream cfaaa7d010d1 f6ede3a3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/22 14:19 upstream c2ee9f594da8 9d74f456 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/11 07:52 upstream 1d227fcc7222 cd942402 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/07 17:16 upstream 8cf0b93919e1 d7906eff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/09/18 06:24 upstream a430d95c5efa c673ca06 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/09/13 01:49 upstream 77f587896757 60e1a995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/09/09 00:09 upstream 89f5e14d05b4 9750182a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/09/07 18:21 upstream b31c44928842 9750182a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/07/27 19:15 upstream 3a7e02c040b1 46eb10b7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/07/14 10:48 upstream d0d0cd380055 eaeb5c15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/07/08 22:54 upstream 256abd8e550c cde64f7d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/07/04 20:12 upstream 795c58e4c7fc dc6bbff0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/03/28 01:49 net 1a9239bb4253 6c09fb82 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/01/21 19:04 net d640627663bf 6e87cfa2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/12/08 01:16 net 0f6ede9fbc74 9ac0fdc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/12 04:35 net 8a6be4bd6fb3 084d8178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/03/24 08:41 net-next bfc17c165835 875573af .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/19 03:55 net-next 6d858708d465 cd6fc0a3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2025/05/23 05:43 linux-next 460178e842c7 fa44301a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/28 17:21 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing c6d9e43954bf 9efb3cc7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/21 09:02 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing c6d9e43954bf cd6fc0a3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/17 01:02 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 7b5a58952fc3 666f77ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/14 11:15 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 64f3b5a6bc49 084d8178 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/10 16:11 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 4a9fe2a8ac53 8fbfc0c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/08 03:59 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 4a9fe2a8ac53 402f1df0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/10/05 07:42 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 4a9fe2a8ac53 d7906eff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/07/21 12:32 linux-next 41c196e567fb b88348e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
2024/06/20 09:28 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing b0fc24f36191 41b7e219 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.