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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/12/09 09:13
Reported-by: syzbot+7919861b650883ef99d9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 112d, last: 3d08h
Similar bugs (18)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone 1 C done 8 146d 231d 2/2 fixed on 2025/12/06 23:11
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone 1 1 845d 845d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/15 18:08
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone 1 3 992d 1065d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/20 18:18
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (2) mm 1 49 2219d 2335d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/06/01 05:26
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (4) kernel 1 1 1735d 1735d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/09/27 17:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (3) mm 1 2 2071d 2093d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/10/26 22:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (6) kasan mm 1 1 1406d 1406d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/23 03:28
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone kernel 1 1 2392d 2392d 13/29 fixed on 2019/10/09 10:54
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (8) mm 1 C error 392 22h48m 732d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/29 00:16
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone 1 2 2290d 2308d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/04/21 05:46
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (5) kernfs 1 5 1540d 1640d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (7) fs 1 1 1141d 1141d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/14 17:18
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (2) missing-backport origin:upstream 1 C done 96 5d19h 734d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/27 00:16
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (2) origin:upstream missing-backport 1 C error 56 10h27m 740d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/20 15:17
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone 1 1 631d 631d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/06 12:58
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone (2) 1 1 205d 205d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/06 02:03
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone (3) 1 1 57d 57d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/02/01 19:31
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone origin:upstream 1 C error 18 567d 710d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/19 12:14

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6378/2:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=55457, q=346 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:21736 pid:6378  ppid:6367   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_acquire+0x208/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3c 04 f8 0f 85 f0 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3c 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3c 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a375e0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 09b6f68b3ad1bb00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8acadb60 RDI: ffffffff8b1c89a0
RBP: ffffc90003a37700 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff22386a0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff22386a1 R12: 1ffff92000746ec8
R13: ffffffff8d1320a0 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 percpu_ref_tryget_many include/linux/percpu-refcount.h:241 [inline]
 percpu_ref_tryget+0x31/0x180 include/linux/percpu-refcount.h:266
 obj_cgroup_tryget include/linux/memcontrol.h:793 [inline]
 __get_obj_cgroup_from_memcg+0x70/0xe0 mm/memcontrol.c:3043
 get_obj_cgroup_from_current+0x16f/0x280 mm/memcontrol.c:3063
 memcg_slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:492 [inline]
 slab_pre_alloc_hook+0x91/0x310 mm/slab.h:719
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3477 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x5a/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:3519
 vma_lock_alloc kernel/fork.c:460 [inline]
 vm_area_dup+0x61/0x270 kernel/fork.c:513
 dup_mmap kernel/fork.c:711 [inline]
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1692 [inline]
 copy_mm+0xca8/0x1d50 kernel/fork.c:1741
 copy_process+0x16f7/0x3d80 kernel/fork.c:2506
 kernel_clone+0x24b/0x8a0 kernel/fork.c:2914
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:3057 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:3041 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x1b7/0x230 kernel/fork.c:3041
 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: 0033:0x7fcdf65c5212
RSP: 002b:00007ffc0d099e70 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc0d099e70 RCX: 00007fcdf65c5212
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
RBP: 00007ffc0d099ffc R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 000055557c5387d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00000000000927c0 R14: 000000000005fec9 R15: 00007ffc0d09a050
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10408 jiffies! g55457 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:27656 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
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: 6f 21 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 23 39 42 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: 000002c6
RAX: d421a4c03882b300 RBX: ffffffff8162a8c1 RCX: d421a4c03882b300
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acac9e0 RDI: ffffffff8b1c89a0
RBP: ffffffff8ce07eb8 R08: ffff8880b8e36b2b R09: 1ffff110171c6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6d66 R12: 1ffffffff19c0fbc
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 1ffffffff19d2688 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffe38563000 CR3: 000000001b71c000 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:178 [inline]
 do_idle+0x221/0x590 kernel/sched/idle.c:302
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 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 (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/28 07:08 linux-6.6.y c09fbcd31ae6 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/01/25 06:11 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/01/25 00:50 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/01/19 18:52 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 a9fc5226 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2025/12/31 06:17 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 sys_clone
2025/12/12 09:20 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2025/12/09 09:12 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.