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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: 233d, last: 1d13h
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 410d 410d 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 559d 559d 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 1210d 1294d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/22 20:06
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (3) tomoyo mm 1 C error 373 1d05h 1006d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/08/13 23:42
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2) 1 25 6d13h 415d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/03/27 11:38
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 4 625d 844d 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 678d 689d 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 31 3d07h 300d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/20 18:19
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink mm kasan 1 1 1385d 1385d 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 795d 795d 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 737d 759d 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): P4189/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=6621, q=154)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:21424 pid: 4189 ppid:  4187 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:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x0/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:202
Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 53 48 89 fb e8 17 00 00 00 48 8b 3d d0 bd 10 0c 48 89 de 5b e9 27 55 44 00 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc <48> 8b 04 24 65 48 8b 0d 24 3b 89 7e 65 8b 15 25 3b 89 7e 81 e2 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002eef720 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: ffffffff8408ea00 RBX: 1ffff920005ddf0c RCX: ffff88807bc63b00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff88807bc63b80 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffc90002eef860
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffea0001d266c0 R15: 0000000000000002
 xas_descend+0x210/0x3b0 lib/xarray.c:207
 xas_load lib/xarray.c:240 [inline]
 xas_find+0x1e0/0xab0 lib/xarray.c:1249
 find_get_entry mm/filemap.c:1978 [inline]
 find_lock_entries+0x19e/0xd70 mm/filemap.c:2092
 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: 0033:0x7f7d1175cf47
RSP: 002b:00007ffc977fef98 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000057
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f7d1175cf47
RDX: 00007ffc977fefc0 RSI: 00007ffc977ff050 RDI: 00007ffc977ff050
RBP: 00007ffc977ff050 R08: 00007ffc97800050 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffc978000e0
R13: 00007f7d117f31ca R14: 0000000000013a1c R15: 00007ffc97800120
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10479 jiffies! g6621 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:27608 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:729

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/15 07:44 linux-5.15.y de8dfb3f0278 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/05/15 07:35 linux-5.15.y de8dfb3f0278 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/05/15 07:33 linux-5.15.y de8dfb3f0278 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/04/27 13:34 linux-5.15.y b9d57c40a767 0f700595 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
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.