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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (3)

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/09/09 01:58
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+6f9608a27846cc108b6b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 35d, last: 8d07h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/09/24 linux-6.1.y (ToT) 363a599da6d9 syz [report] INFO: rcu detected stall in futex
2025/09/24 upstream (ToT) cec1e6e5d1ab syz Didn't crash
Similar bugs (16)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (4) fs 1 1 1629d 1629d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/07/27 17:27
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket 1 1 742d 742d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/11 06:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (5) net 1 2 1467d 1493d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/01/06 01:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket mm 1 11 2141d 2142d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket 1 6 10d 94d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/12 12:18
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket 1 1 1271d 1271d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/20 07:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (10) mm 1 C done 157 11h45m 683d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/11/30 15:24
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket 1 2 435d 435d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/13 04:32
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (6) cgroups mm 1 2 1126d 1170d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/12/12 22:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (7) kernel 1 2 986d 1018d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/02 14:50
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (2) 1 3 224d 278d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/11 16:02
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (9) kasan mm 1 2 803d 813d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2023/09/07 14:25
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (2) mm 1 3 2106d 2106d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/08 05:23
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (2) origin:upstream 1 C error 14 3d20h 590d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/02 17:55
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket (3) mm 1 4 2106d 2106d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 08:13
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_socket 1 C error 26 402d 551d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/29 22:24

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0-.... } 2686 jiffies s: 41773 root: 0x1/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 22322 Comm: syz.0.7996 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
RIP: 0010:asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x0/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:722
Code: e9 b5 03 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 0f 01 ca fc 6a ff e8 b5 02 00 00 48 89 c4 48 89 e7 e8 ca 5d d7 ff e9 95 03 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 <0f> 01 ca fc 6a ff e8 95 02 00 00 48 89 c4 48 89 e7 e8 9a 62 d7 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007bf8 EFLAGS: 00000006
RAX: 13a3afbb838d4900 RBX: 1ffff92000000f8c RCX: 13a3afbb838d4900
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c0500 RDI: ffffffff8adefd20
RBP: ffffc90000007d08 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed10171c6afa
R10: ffffed10171c6afa R11: 1ffff110171c6af9 R12: 0000000000000246
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b8e3b900 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f8299b056c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fed22dc64e8 CR3: 0000000057b22000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x84/0x500 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:685
Code: f1 f1 f1 00 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 66 42 c7 44 2b 09 f3 f3 42 c6 44 2b 0b f3 65 44 8b 35 2d 97 96 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 45 <48> c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 2b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007c20 EFLAGS: 00000206
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:823 [inline]
 rebalance_domains+0x89c/0x9d0 kernel/sched/fair.c:11044
 handle_softirqs+0x2a1/0x920 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:679
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:691
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:sk_init_common+0x234/0xab0 net/core/sock.c:2225
Code: 03 00 00 e8 1e 82 65 f9 4e 8d 24 fd 60 78 89 8b 4c 89 e0 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 e7 e8 20 af b5 f9 49 8b 34 24 <41> c1 e7 04 48 8d bb 09 02 00 00 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d1afce8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 1ffffffff1712f1c RBX: ffff8880570f6000 RCX: ffff88802f378000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b898020 RDI: 000000000000002f
RBP: 1ffff1100ae1ec02 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffff8880570f63c0
R10: ffffed100ae1ec7a R11: 1ffff1100ae1ec78 R12: ffffffff8b8978e0
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880570f6010 R15: 0000000000000010
 sock_init_data_uid+0x2d/0xbe0 net/core/sock.c:3400
 __netlink_create+0x7e/0x2d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:633
 netlink_create+0x3a7/0x510 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:692
 __sock_create+0x4a2/0x940 net/socket.c:1550
 sock_create net/socket.c:1606 [inline]
 __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1643 [inline]
 __sys_socket+0xc4/0x190 net/socket.c:1671
 __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1684 [inline]
 __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1682 [inline]
 __x64_sys_socket+0x76/0x80 net/socket.c:1682
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f8298b8eec9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f8299b05038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000029
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8298de5fa0 RCX: 00007f8298b8eec9
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 0000000000000010
RBP: 00007f8298c11f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8298de6038 R14: 00007f8298de5fa0 R15: 00007ffef3ed15f8
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/05 17:49 linux-6.1.y 882efbdd9d34 49379ee0 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket
2025/09/20 20:39 linux-6.1.y 363a599da6d9 67c37560 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket
2025/10/06 08:00 linux-6.1.y 882efbdd9d34 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket
2025/09/13 22:33 linux-6.1.y 3db754f56897 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket
2025/09/12 16:54 linux-6.1.y 3db754f56897 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket
2025/09/09 01:57 linux-6.1.y 28c695c365e1 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_socket
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.