syzbot


INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/05 18:14
Reported-by: syzbot+750ad6e3a9f8a2f1a88a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 69d, last: 5d04h
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat 1 2 418d 457d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/02 02:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat 1 1 798d 798d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/15 18:20
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat ext4 net 1 3 1008d 1124d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/11 04:05
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat (2) mm 1 44 192d 393d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/13 21:11
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat (2) 1 1 320d 320d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/08 06:38
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_mkdirat 1 8 587d 639d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/03 20:00

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=6bf/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=18689/18691 fqs=2097 
	(detected by 1, t=10505 jiffies, g=27741, q=918)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 7895 Comm: syz.4.828 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled+0x0/0x30 kernel/rcu/update.c:279
Code: 7c c7 03 00 75 e8 48 c7 c7 80 1a 0b 8a 48 c7 c6 00 3f 0b 8a e8 01 3b f5 ff 0f 0b eb d1 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 <31> c0 83 3d bb 49 c7 03 00 74 1d 83 3d 32 7c c7 03 00 74 14 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000074b8 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff81966a72 RBX: ffff888052b05f80 RCX: ffff88807bd09dc0
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 00000000ffffffe4 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900000075d0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ad26b6
R10: fffffbfff1ad26b6 R11: 1ffffffff1ad26b5 R12: 00000000ffffffe4
R13: 1ffff92000000e9c R14: ffffc90000007500 R15: ffffc900000076c0
FS:  00007ff2f656a6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc011892d58 CR3: 0000000022821000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000200000000300 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:769 [inline]
 __perf_event_output kernel/events/core.c:7813 [inline]
 perf_event_output_forward+0x19c/0x280 kernel/events/core.c:7822
 __perf_event_overflow+0x364/0x530 kernel/events/core.c:9515
 perf_tp_event+0x32c/0xb50 kernel/events/core.c:10047
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10021
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2be/0x380 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x84/0x480 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
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 ed 11 9e 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 45 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 2b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007b00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: fcaa7b902f42db00 RBX: 1ffff92000000f64 RCX: fcaa7b902f42db00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1be0 RDI: ffffffff8a59e800
RBP: ffffc90000007be0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff541a
R10: fffffbfff1ff541a R11: 1ffffffff1ff5419 R12: ffffffff8c120c00
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_napi+0x1f4/0x360 net/mac80211/rx.c:5014
 ieee80211_rx include/net/mac80211.h:4573 [inline]
 ieee80211_handle_queued_frames+0x105/0x1b0 net/mac80211/main.c:237
 tasklet_action_common+0x298/0x400 kernel/softirq.c:806
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 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:preempt_schedule_irq+0xac/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6799
Code: 44 24 20 f6 44 24 21 02 74 0b 0f 0b 48 f7 03 08 00 00 00 74 70 bf 01 00 00 00 e8 af 44 a7 f7 e8 fa bd d3 f7 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> ef b5 ff ff 48 c7 44 24 40 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 40 8b 44 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000448f700 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: fcaa7b902f42db00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: fcaa7b902f42db00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1be0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000448f7a0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff541a
R10: fffffbfff1ff541a R11: 1ffffffff1ff5419 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff92000891ee0
 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:lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5627
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f6 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3d 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 0b
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000448f860 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: fcaa7b902f42db00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b2e80 RDI: ffffffff8a59e800
RBP: ffffc9000448f968 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff541a
R10: fffffbfff1ff541a R11: 1ffffffff1ff5419 R12: ffffffff8c24d570
R13: 1ffff92000891f18 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 down_read+0x44/0x2e0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1498
 kernfs_iop_permission+0x68/0x340 fs/kernfs/inode.c:284
 do_inode_permission fs/namei.c:459 [inline]
 inode_permission+0x239/0x480 fs/namei.c:526
 may_lookup fs/namei.c:1701 [inline]
 link_path_walk+0x2ca/0xd40 fs/namei.c:2253
 path_parentat fs/namei.c:2510 [inline]
 __filename_parentat+0x1f3/0x5f0 fs/namei.c:2534
 filename_parentat fs/namei.c:2552 [inline]
 filename_create+0xcc/0x450 fs/namei.c:3824
 do_mkdirat+0x9d/0x5a0 fs/namei.c:4088
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4113 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4111 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x85/0x90 fs/namei.c:4111
 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: 0033:0x7ff2f8303749
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:00007ff2f656a038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000102
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff2f8559fa0 RCX: 00007ff2f8303749
RDX: 00000000000001ff RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007ff2f8387f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff2f855a038 R14: 00007ff2f8559fa0 R15: 00007ffdbd6ce4b8
 </TASK>

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/09 12:00 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
2025/12/31 19:52 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
2025/12/25 19:32 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
2025/11/05 18:14 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_mkdirat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.