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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (5)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/25 16:42
Reported-by: syzbot+5854e0c59e957bb696cd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 159d, last: 17d
Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (4) 1 1 335d 335d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/10 21:02
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (3) 1 1 485d 485d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/11 14:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2) kernel 1 2 1135d 1220d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/22 20:06
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (3) mm 1 C error 354 10h43m 932d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/08/13 23:42
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2) 1 23 6d20h 341d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/03/27 11:38
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 4 551d 770d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/07 03:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2) 1 3 604d 615d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/15 13:02
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 24 22h48m 225d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/20 18:19
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink mm kasan 1 1 1311d 1311d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/29 07:23
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 1 721d 721d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/20 14:47
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_unlink 1 7 663d 685d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/07 01:29

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P4192/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=10977, q=167216)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:21528 pid: 4192 ppid:  4180 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6799
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:432
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:get_current arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:15 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x4/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:205
Code: 84 00 00 00 00 00 53 48 89 fb e8 17 00 00 00 48 8b 3d 20 bb 10 0c 48 89 de 5b e9 37 42 44 00 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 48 8b 04 24 <65> 48 8b 0d 74 4d 89 7e 65 8b 15 75 4d 89 7e 81 e2 00 01 ff 00 74
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032ef760 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81b91409 RBX: ffffea00016ba300 RCX: ffff88807c77bb80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000002107 RDI: ffffea00016ba300
RBP: ffffc900032ef910 R08: ffffea00016ba307 R09: 1ffffd40002d7460
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff940002d7461 R12: 0000000000002107
R13: fffffffffffffffe R14: ffffea00016ba300 R15: dffffc0000000000
 PageHuge+0x19/0x130 mm/hugetlb.c:1741
 thp_contains+0x2b/0x370 include/linux/pagemap.h:450
 find_lock_entries+0x936/0xd70 mm/filemap.c:2106
 shmem_undo_range+0x29a/0x1930 mm/shmem.c:943
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1063 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x220/0xa40 mm/shmem.c:1145
 evict+0x4c9/0x8d0 fs/inode.c:647
 do_unlinkat+0x3e7/0x710 fs/namei.c:4363
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4404 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4402 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x45/0x50 fs/namei.c:4402
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f659282f067
RSP: 002b:00007ffde694eb18 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000057
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f659282f067
RDX: 00007ffde694eb40 RSI: 00007ffde694ebd0 RDI: 00007ffde694ebd0
RBP: 00007ffde694ebd0 R08: 00007ffde694fbd0 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffde694fc60
R13: 00007f65928c5c3b R14: 000000000001ff22 R15: 00007ffde694fca0
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9900 jiffies! g10977 f0x2 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:27440 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2117
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2be/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9b/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation+0x1cd/0x250 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:487
 print_other_cpu_stall+0x1110/0x1270 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x843/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4ad/0xb70 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9b/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:730
Code: b7 48 89 df e8 16 c5 f8 f7 eb ad e8 4f af f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 66 90 0f 00 2d 77 66 60 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8c007dc8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 7b8695fd7fbcc100 RBX: ffffffff8c0bc480 RCX: 7b8695fd7fbcc100
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2780 RDI: ffffffff8a79f740
RBP: ffffffff8c007ef8 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: 1ffffffff1817890
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffffffff1800fc4
 default_idle_call+0x81/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:112
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:194 [inline]
 do_idle+0x21f/0x580 kernel/sched/idle.c:306
 cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:403
 start_kernel+0x489/0x540 init/main.c:1154
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb1/0xbb
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/14 01:09 linux-5.15.y e45d5d41c134 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/02/09 15:49 linux-5.15.y 7b232985052f df949cd9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/01/17 18:50 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/12/12 23:13 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/12/09 06:00 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/25 16:42 linux-5.15.y 43bb85222e53 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.