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INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (6)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/28 01:12
Subsystems: cgroups mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+774c2dfaebdf78f984c5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 415d, last: 6d19h
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[syzbot] [cgroups?] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (6) 0 (1) 2026/05/28 01:12
Similar bugs (18)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 origin:lts-only 1 C inconclusive 2 178d 242d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/02 07:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (5) mm 1 7 518d 728d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/30 08:38
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 mm 1 2 1601d 1628d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:10
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (2) 1 1 92d 92d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/03/01 00:21
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 1 2 299d 334d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/14 02:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (2) kernfs 1 1 1449d 1449d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/10 23:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (3) kernel 1 1 1198d 1198d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/19 23:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3 (4) mm net 1 2 1012d 1091d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/22 09:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (3) mm 1 26 442d 637d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/14 09:25
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (3) 1 3 556d 615d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/02 13:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 kernfs 1 1 1471d 1471d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/20 13:01
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 1 1 605d 605d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/12 11:21
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) mm 1 3 735d 839d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/25 02:20
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 1 1 877d 874d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/04/15 06:45
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (4) 1 1 418d 418d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/18 19:29
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) 1 1 472d 472d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/25 09:12
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone3 (2) 1 1 737d 737d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/01 21:33
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone3 1 1 145d 145d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/07 17:52

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P17948/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10503 jiffies, g=351569, q=826004 ncpus=2)
task:syz.4.14533     state:R  running task     stack:25592 pid:17948 tgid:17948 ppid:10462  task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5388 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1821/0x5740 kernel/sched/core.c:7189
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7513
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x760 kernel/entry/common.c:164
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:__rcu_read_unlock+0x0/0xe0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:431
Code: d9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 7c dc 48 89 df e8 07 77 85 00 eb d2 0f 1f 44 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 <f3> 0f 1e fa 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 49 bf 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000596f390 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: c3ba2f73bc45e400 RBX: 00007f67769da601 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8e220c4d RDI: ffffffff8c28b860
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000022 R09: ffffffff8e95cce0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff81b0e040 R12: 00007fff7b795798
R13: ffffc90005968000 R14: ffffc9000596f468 R15: ffffffff8176e256
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:871 [inline]
 class_rcu_destructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1181 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0x1bbf/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:709
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x122/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:165
 __reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:320
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1402 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc7/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 __slab_free+0x274/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:5613
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4570 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4899 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x384/0x690 mm/slub.c:4951
 alloc_task_struct_node kernel/fork.c:187 [inline]
 dup_task_struct+0x52/0x840 kernel/fork.c:918
 copy_process+0x89b/0x4440 kernel/fork.c:2090
 kernel_clone+0x284/0x8f0 kernel/fork.c:2721
 __do_sys_clone3 kernel/fork.c:3025 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone3+0x33c/0x360 kernel/fork.c:3004
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0x560 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f6775b9dc49
RSP: 002b:00007fff7b795798 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b3
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6775b591e0 RCX: 00007f6775b9dc49
RDX: 00007f6775b591e0 RSI: 0000000000000058 RDI: 00007fff7b7957f0
RBP: 00007f67769da6c0 R08: 00007f67769da6c0 R09: 00007fff7b7958d7
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: ffffffffffffffe8
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007fff7b7957f0 R15: 00007fff7b7958d8
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 332 jiffies! g351569 f0x2 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:27536 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5388 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1821/0x5740 kernel/sched/core.c:7189
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7268 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7283
 schedule_timeout+0x158/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x312/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 kthread+0x389/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9543 Comm: kworker/u8:15 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Workqueue: wg-kex-wg1 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker
RIP: 0010:on_stack arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h:58 [inline]
RIP: 0010:stack_access_ok arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:409 [inline]
RIP: 0010:deref_stack_reg arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:419 [inline]
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0xdd5/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:614
Code: 61 0b ba 00 48 89 5c 24 60 4c 89 64 24 18 49 8d 5c 24 f8 4d 8b 66 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8b 4c 24 20 0f b6 04 01 <84> c0 0f 85 2c 12 00 00 41 83 3e 00 0f 95 c0 49 39 df 0f 96 c1 20
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a075f8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc90000a07c28 RCX: 1ffff92000140ed9
RDX: ffffffff914bec6a RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffffffff8c28b800
RBP: 1ffff92000140eda R08: 000000000000000b R09: ffffffff8e95cce0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff81b0e040 R12: ffffc90000a09000
R13: 1ffff92000140edb R14: ffffc90000a076c8 R15: ffffc90000a01000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125387000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f0dcae0021c CR3: 0000000090206000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2689 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6251 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x182/0x650 mm/slub.c:6378
 kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline]
 enqueue_to_backlog+0x69b/0xee0 net/core/dev.c:5421
 netif_rx_internal+0x120/0x560 net/core/dev.c:5719
 __netif_rx+0x78/0xc0 net/core/dev.c:5739
 loopback_xmit+0x43a/0x660 drivers/net/loopback.c:90
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5368 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5377 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3888 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2cd/0x830 net/core/dev.c:3904
 sch_direct_xmit+0x251/0x4c0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:372
 qdisc_restart net/sched/sch_generic.c:437 [inline]
 __qdisc_run+0xa83/0x1560 net/sched/sch_generic.c:445
 qdisc_run include/net/pkt_sched.h:120 [inline]
 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4292 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1d26/0x3950 net/core/dev.c:4831
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3418 [inline]
 neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:544 [inline]
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:558 [inline]
 ip_finish_output2+0xc68/0x1070 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 ip_output+0x29f/0x450 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438
 synproxy_send_client_synack+0x8c1/0xe30 net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c:485
 nft_synproxy_eval_v4+0x34a/0x4e0 net/netfilter/nft_synproxy.c:60
 nft_synproxy_do_eval+0x305/0x580 net/netfilter/nft_synproxy.c:142
 expr_call_ops_eval net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:237 [inline]
 nft_do_chain+0x48d/0x1ae0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:285
 nft_do_chain_inet+0x360/0x4b0 net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:162
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xc5/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:619
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:273 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x21f/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:316
 NF_HOOK+0x336/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6202 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6315 [inline]
 process_backlog+0xaa3/0x1950 net/core/dev.c:6666
 __napi_poll+0xae/0x340 net/core/dev.c:7733
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7796 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x627/0xf70 net/core/dev.c:7953
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 blake2s_compress+0xf9/0x1eb0 lib/crypto/x86/blake2s.h:42
 blake2s_update+0x14b/0x450 lib/crypto/blake2s.c:119
 hmac+0x2d3/0x3b0 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:332
 kdf drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:367 [inline]
 message_ephemeral+0x255/0x310 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:493
 wg_noise_handshake_create_initiation+0x257/0x830 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:545
 wg_packet_send_handshake_initiation drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:34 [inline]
 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker+0x18d/0x350 drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:51
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x389/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (31):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/26 00:57 upstream e8c2f9fdadee c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/05/20 23:50 upstream df685633c3db 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/05/09 16:12 upstream 70390501d194 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/04/03 17:21 upstream d8a9a4b11a13 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/04/02 17:43 upstream 9147566d8016 8b15d4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/16 10:43 upstream f338e7738378 64e21424 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/02/02 15:59 upstream 18f7fcd5e69a 018ebef2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/01/12 01:45 upstream 9c7ef209cd0f d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/12/26 21:03 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/14 23:51 upstream 9b332cece987 b6605ba8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/12 03:56 upstream 67029a49db6c ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/08 12:52 upstream 0d97f2067c16 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/07/26 22:27 upstream 5f33ebd2018c fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/06/04 02:35 upstream 546b1c9e93c2 a30356b7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/05/08 22:32 upstream d76bb1ebb558 dbf35fa1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/04/29 00:14 upstream f15d97df5afa c6b4fb39 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/04/11 23:52 upstream 900241a5cc15 12ba9c21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/05/24 00:58 net 87a1e0fe7776 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/04/26 11:37 net e728258debd5 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/26 02:07 net c4ea7d8907cf c6143aac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/16 21:33 net 43d222fbcdff 0737c18f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/10 04:24 net 7a85d370bbd0 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/03/05 07:33 net 126fe7ef12ff a9fe5c9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2026/02/17 23:25 net 77c5e3fdd279 39751c21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/27 11:51 net 84a905290cb4 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/07/28 08:38 net afd8c2c9e2e2 fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/11/25 09:12 net-next 00f3b3251814 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/06/15 22:21 net-next 8909f5f4ecd5 5f4b362d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/12/30 00:19 linux-next cc3aa43b44bd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/10/03 23:32 linux-next 47a8d4b89844 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
2025/09/20 03:24 linux-next 846bd2225ec3 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in clone3
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.