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INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/10 03:23
Reported-by: syzbot+419fa9f4a183b1e48463@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d15h, last: 6d15h
Similar bugs (16)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 1 1 2623d 2623d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/08 13:45
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 1 1 220d 220d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/15 23:07
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 (2) 1 3 2140d 2295d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/12/03 20:18
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 mm prio:high 1 38 12h44m 121d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/02/14 22:22
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (3) mm 1 2 1512d 1512d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/25 08:10
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (4) net 1 1 1253d 1253d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/18 07:19
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (6) fs mm 1 6 598d 759d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/24 02:27
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 1 573d 573d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/27 23:01
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 lsm 1 C 4 2736d 2736d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/12/19 10:12
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 C done error 100 1622d 2705d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:47
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 3 2281d 2333d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/07/16 06:45
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (7) mm 1 1 494d 494d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/07 22:38
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 1127d 1127d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/24 12:36
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (5) fs 1 1 944d 944d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/14 10:13
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 2615d 2615d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/16 04:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 690d 690d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/03 00:47

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P21771/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=112149, q=126 ncpus=2)
task:syz.8.4586      state:R  running task     stack:26568 pid:21771 ppid:11064  flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbf/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7010
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:__rcu_read_unlock+0xa/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:419
Code: 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 7c e3 48 89 df e8 8e b4 6d 00 eb d9 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 41 57 41 56 41 55 <41> 54 53 49 bf 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48 8b 3d 11 ff 91 7e 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000dca7780 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff81b5be6b RBX: ffffffff81b5bc2e RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9001126b000 RSI: 000000000007ffff RDI: 0000000000080000
RBP: ffffc9000dca78a0 R08: ffffea00013313f7 R09: 1ffffd400026627e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff9400026627f R12: 1ffff92001b94ef8
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffea00013313c0 R15: 0000000000000001
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:818 [inline]
 filemap_get_entry+0x36a/0x3f0 mm/filemap.c:1870
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x2a5/0x2aa0 mm/shmem.c:1975
 shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2164 [inline]
 shmem_file_splice_read+0x250/0xc60 mm/shmem.c:2954
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x26b/0x8c0 fs/splice.c:1069
 do_splice_direct+0x1d5/0x2f0 fs/splice.c:1194
 do_sendfile+0x5f2/0xef0 fs/read_write.c:1254
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1322 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64+0x145/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:1308
 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: 0033:0x7fa5e899ce59
RSP: 002b:00007fa5e97d0028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000028
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa5e8c15fa0 RCX: 00007fa5e899ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fa5e8a32d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000003ffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa5e8c16038 R14: 00007fa5e8c15fa0 R15: 00007ffd6581ebf8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10409 jiffies! g112149 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=1
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:27656 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1553/0x45a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6774
 schedule_timeout+0x188/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x313/0x1590 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: 88 1f 02 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 43 e4 3f 00 fb f4 <c3> 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 50 8b 2f eb 2e 41 89 de 80
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000187de0 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: e8ffe56010701500 RBX: ffffffff8162ae21 RCX: e8ffe56010701500
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acacbe0 RDI: ffffffff8b1c9c20
RBP: ffffc90000187f20 R08: ffff8880b8f36bab R09: 1ffff110171e6d75
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6d76 R12: 1ffff92000030fc8
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffff110037cb780 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f133381f040 CR3: 0000000021149000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:178 [inline]
 do_idle+0x221/0x590 kernel/sched/idle.c:302
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 start_secondary+0xee/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:323
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/10 03:22 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb 34dab4be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.