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linux-next test error: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/07/01 12:30
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+37d54f0f58ba8519cdbe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d05h, last: 4h33m
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[syzbot] [fs?] linux-next test error: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare 0 (1) 2025/07/01 12:30

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
6.16.0-rc4-next-20250703-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
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fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:934 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
3 locks held by syz-executor/5842:
 #0: ffff888030424428 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write+0x41/0x90 fs/namespace.c:557
 #1: ffff8880232d6c10 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock_shared include/linux/fs.h:884 [inline]
 #1: ffff8880232d6c10 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10){++++}-{4:4}, at: open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3806 [inline]
 #1: ffff8880232d6c10 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10){++++}-{4:4}, at: path_openat+0x8cb/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4043
 #2: ffff8880780cc9a0 (&lockref->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline]
 #2: ffff8880780cc9a0 (&lockref->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: d_wait_lookup fs/dcache.c:2537 [inline]
 #2: ffff8880780cc9a0 (&lockref->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: d_alloc_parallel+0xbe4/0x15e0 fs/dcache.c:2624

stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5842 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-next-20250703-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x140/0x1d0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6871
 proc_sys_compare+0x27d/0x2c0 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:934
 d_same_name fs/dcache.c:2179 [inline]
 d_alloc_parallel+0x105d/0x15e0 fs/dcache.c:2637
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3630 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3807 [inline]
 path_openat+0xa3b/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4043
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4073
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1434
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1449 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1465 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1460 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1460
 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: 0033:0x7f9dfaf8d211
Code: 75 57 89 f0 25 00 00 41 00 3d 00 00 41 00 74 49 80 3d 3a 83 1f 00 00 74 6d 89 da 48 89 ee bf 9c ff ff ff b8 01 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 93 00 00 00 48 8b 54 24 28 64 48 2b 14 25
RSP: 002b:00007ffc6d71f190 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000080001 RCX: 00007f9dfaf8d211
RDX: 0000000000080001 RSI: 00007f9dfb02ae4d RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 00007f9dfb02ae4d R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 00007ffc6d71f230 R14: 0000000000000009 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/03 10:45 linux-next 8d6c58332c7a 115ceea7 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce linux-next test error: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/01 18:14 linux-next 3f804361f3b9 ffe4b334 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce linux-next test error: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/01 17:42 linux-next 3f804361f3b9 ffe4b334 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/01 10:34 linux-next 3f804361f3b9 6e83b42d .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce linux-next test error: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
2025/07/01 10:02 linux-next 3f804361f3b9 6e83b42d .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root linux-next test error: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in proc_sys_compare
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.