INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/09/28 11:56
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+46c3d1706c2d2688baba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 831d, last: 1d18h
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit d15121be7485655129101f3960ae6add40204463
Author: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Date: Mon May 8 06:17:44 2023 +0000

  Revert "softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job"

Crash: no output from test machine (log)
Repro: syz .config
  
Fix bisection: fixed by (bisect log) :
commit 6d71a9c6160479899ee744d2c6d6602a191deb1f
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Thu Jan 9 10:59:59 2025 +0000

  sched/fair: Fix EEVDF entity placement bug causing scheduling lag

  
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
e648213f repro-c 💥 INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release 2026/08/26 14:08 2026/08/26 16:47 2026/08/27 01:54 a2b77b9e
28d49278 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release 2026/05/25 00:58 2026/05/25 00:58 2026/05/25 01:29 c69befb3
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Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release 1 1 726d 726d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/19 05:19
linux-4.14 BUG: soft lockup in vhci_release 1 1 1969d 1969d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/08/14 12:26
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/05/14 22:39 40m retest repro net-next no crash log
2026/03/05 21:02 35m retest repro net-next report log
2025/12/25 20:01 25m retest repro net-next report log
2025/10/16 18:40 1h20m retest repro net-next report log
2025/08/07 14:05 27m retest repro net-next report log
2025/05/29 00:54 23m retest repro net-next report log
2025/04/23 17:36 22m retest repro upstream log
2025/03/19 22:57 1h28m retest repro net-next report log
2025/03/19 22:09 2h02m retest repro net-next report log
2025/01/08 23:08 19m retest repro upstream report log
Fix bisection attempts (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/06/04 01:37 12h10m bisect fix upstream OK (1) job log
2025/02/12 14:17 2h24m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on veth0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P12456/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10503 jiffies, g=92449, q=2194 ncpus=2)
task:syz.5.1766      state:R  running task     stack:26128 pid:12456 tgid:12455 ppid:8515   task_flags:0x40044c flags:0x00080001
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5520 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d4/0x5820 kernel/sched/core.c:7270
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4b/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7592
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x910 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0x19d8/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:693
Code: 49 8d 56 40 4c 89 f7 4c 89 c6 e8 33 0e 00 00 84 c0 0f 84 4e 01 00 00 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8b 44 24 10 0f b6 04 18 <84> c0 0f 85 7b 08 00 00 40 b5 01 8b 44 24 5c 41 39 06 4c 8b 6c 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000eeaf240 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: ffffc9000eeaf328 RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: ffffc9000eeafe88
RBP: 1ffffffff221ee5a R08: ffffc9000eeafe88 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000eeaf338 R11: fffff52001dd5e69 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffffff910f72d1 R14: ffffc9000eeaf2e8 R15: ffffc9000eeaf330
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2678 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6372 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x182/0x650 mm/slub.c:6499
 kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1323 [inline]
 __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3441 [inline]
 skb_queue_purge_reason+0x2e5/0x3a0 net/core/skbuff.c:4027
 skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3454 [inline]
 vhci_flush+0x44/0x50 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:69
 hci_dev_close_sync+0x8a8/0x10a0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5600
 hci_dev_do_close net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:502 [inline]
 hci_unregister_dev+0x232/0x5b0 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:2681
 vhci_release+0x16d/0x1c0 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:700
 __fput+0x418/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x73a/0x2360 kernel/exit.c:1008
 do_group_exit+0x22d/0x2f0 kernel/exit.c:1151
 get_signal+0x121b/0x12c0 kernel/signal.c:3046
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbb/0x860 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:66 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10e/0x770 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:336 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x328/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f90a419e0d9
RSP: 002b:00007f90a51220e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00007f90a4425fa8 RCX: 00007f90a419e0d9
RDX: 00000000000f4240 RSI: 0000000000000081 RDI: 00007f90a4425fac
RBP: 00007f90a4425fa0 R08: 3fffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f90a4426038 R14: 00007f90a454f960 R15: 00007f90a454fa48
 </TASK>
net_ratelimit: 12006 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
net_ratelimit: 13868 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)

Crashes (16):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/23 18:19 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2026/05/21 23:56 upstream 8bc67e4db64a e195359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2026/02/18 23:47 upstream 2961f841b025 77d4d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2025/05/03 16:05 upstream 95d3481af6dc b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2025/03/21 22:50 upstream d07de43e3f05 62330552 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2024/12/22 14:44 upstream 48f506ad0b68 d7f584ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2024/10/01 05:24 upstream e32cde8d2bd7 bbd4e0a4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2024/09/24 11:45 upstream abf2050f51fd 89298aad .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2024/05/28 22:57 upstream e0cce98fe279 34889ee3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2025/02/24 05:18 upstream d082ecbc71e9 d34966d1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2024/10/14 02:07 upstream ba01565ced22 084d8178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2024/07/04 22:42 upstream 795c58e4c7fc dc6bbff0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2025/01/13 14:14 net 76201b597976 6dbc6a9b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2026/09/05 05:20 net-next 9eab111e7657 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2024/12/25 21:05 net-next 9268abe611b0 444551c4 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
2025/04/09 10:57 linux-next 46086739de22 b133e63a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in vhci_release
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.