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INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/07/16 16:43
Reported-by: syzbot+68741367f552e50af6bc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 225d, last: 7d02h
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff mm 1 110 13d 564d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2024/08/11 07:12
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff 1 19 93d 615d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/06/22 04:29

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P15382/2:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=89409, q=638 ncpus=2)
task:syz.8.2650      state:R  running task     stack:25768 pid:15382 ppid:15029  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:lock_release+0x15/0x8c0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5762
Code: fa ff ff bb 2f 00 00 00 e9 24 fa ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 e4 e0 <48> 81 ec e0 00 00 00 49 89 f4 48 89 7c 24 18 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004277780 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000e1f9000 RSI: ffffffff81b66dfe RDI: ffffffff8d131fa0
RBP: ffffc900042777b0 R08: ffff8880774f5063 R09: 1ffff1100ee9ea0c
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100ee9ea0d R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc90004277a98 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_release include/linux/rcupdate.h:344 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:819 [inline]
 pte_unmap include/linux/pgtable.h:113 [inline]
 filemap_map_pages+0x13c9/0x1980 mm/filemap.c:3670
 do_fault_around mm/memory.c:4595 [inline]
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:4628 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4775 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:3689 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5047 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5188 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x3b05/0x4c00 mm/memory.c:5353
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:868 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x5d0/0x1380 mm/gup.c:1167
 populate_vma_page_range+0x2c1/0x380 mm/gup.c:1593
 __mm_populate+0x260/0x390 mm/gup.c:1696
 mm_populate include/linux/mm.h:3383 [inline]
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x2da/0x3f0 mm/util.c:561
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f087819c629
RSP: 002b:00007f0878fc9028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0878416090 RCX: 00007f087819c629
RDX: b635773f06ebbeee RSI: 0000000000b36000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f0878232b39 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008031 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0878416128 R14: 00007f0878416090 R15: 00007ffde50ca2e8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10218 jiffies! g89409 f0x0 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:26728 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:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: c7 22 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 83 d1 43 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:ffffffff8ce07d80 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 8a8d2539faf33700 RBX: ffffffff8162a490 RCX: 8a8d2539faf33700
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acac900 RDI: ffffffff8b1c82e0
RBP: ffffffff8ce07eb8 R08: ffff8880b8e36b2b R09: 1ffff110171c6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6d66 R12: 1ffffffff19d2688
R13: 1ffffffff19c0fbc R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055e6f6709a38 CR3: 000000002d0c4000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
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:170 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1f0/0x4e0 kernel/sched/idle.c:282
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:380
 rest_init+0x2e2/0x300 init/main.c:744
 arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10 init/main.c:841
 start_kernel+0x459/0x4e0 init/main.c:1086
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:555
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x60/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:536
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/20 02:06 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e c8d8c52d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
2026/01/31 07:07 linux-6.6.y 2cf6f68313dc c75a2f6e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
2026/01/31 07:05 linux-6.6.y 2cf6f68313dc c75a2f6e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
2025/12/29 14:12 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
2025/10/19 11:20 linux-6.6.y 0bbbd97a442d 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
2025/09/10 07:49 linux-6.6.y fe9731e10004 fdeaa69b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
2025/09/06 11:51 linux-6.6.y 355bd0b51d2f d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
2025/08/20 00:50 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 254a27c1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
2025/07/16 16:43 linux-6.6.y 9247f4e6573a 124ec9cc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in vm_mmap_pgoff
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.