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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: 211d, last: 18h12m
Similar bugs (19)
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 246d 330d 2/2 fixed on 2025/12/06 23:11
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone 1 1 945d 945d 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 1092d 1164d 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 2319d 2435d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/06/01 05:26
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (4) kernel 1 1 1835d 1835d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/09/27 17:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (3) mm 1 2 2171d 2193d 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 1506d 1506d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/23 03:28
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone kernel 1 1 2492d 2492d 13/29 fixed on 2019/10/09 10:54
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (8) mm 1 C error 454 3d15h 832d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/29 00:16
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone 1 2 2390d 2408d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/04/21 05:46
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (5) kernfs 1 5 1640d 1739d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone (7) fs 1 1 1241d 1241d 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 152 23h51m 834d 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 86 10d 840d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/03/20 15:17
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone 1 1 730d 730d 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 305d 305d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/06 02:03
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone (4) 1 1 32d 32d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/06/07 05:26
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone (3) 1 1 157d 157d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/02 19:39
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_clone origin:upstream 1 C error 18 666d 810d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/19 12:14

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:2e:9d:61:0d:3d:04, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=edb4/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=55962/55965 fqs=0
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=91489, q=335 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 14796 Comm: dhcpcd-run-hook Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x4c9/0x7d80 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5075
Code: 00 00 4c 89 ac 24 98 00 00 00 31 c0 4c 89 bc 24 a0 00 00 00 41 83 3f 00 0f 95 c0 09 c3 c1 e3 0d 8b 44 24 20 c1 e0 0f 0f b7 c0 <09> d8 8b 4c 24 50 83 e1 03 c1 e1 10 09 c1 8b 84 24 c8 00 00 00 83
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000078c0 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000004000 RCX: ffff88807a945a00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff88807a946588
RBP: ffffc90000007b08 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d18d66 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff88807a946598 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88807a9464c4
FS:  00007f5fef252c80(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f5fef4b67e8 CR3: 000000007a257000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: ffffffffffffffff DR1: 00000000000001f8 DR2: 0000000000000083
DR3: ffffffffefffff15 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 lock_acquire+0x19e/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xb4/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 debug_object_deactivate+0x67/0x380 lib/debugobjects.c:802
 debug_hrtimer_deactivate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:455 [inline]
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1722 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x2cc/0xc10 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1818
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x39d/0x980 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1880
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1077 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xfb/0x3b0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1094
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9f/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0xe68/0x2990 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:-1
Code: 1e b8 4b 00 49 83 fe 04 0f 84 cb 01 00 00 41 83 fe 03 0f 84 e3 00 00 00 41 83 fe 02 0f 85 8e 02 00 00 48 89 9c 24 80 00 00 00 <4c> 89 64 24 38 49 8d 7d 08 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 48 89 44 24 70 42
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ae72b8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffffffff8f1b553f RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: ffffffff813b3212 RSI: ffffffff8cfa0610 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: ffffc90003ae77f8 R08: ffff88807a945a00 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8f1b553e
R13: ffffc90003ae7388 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: dffffc0000000000
 arch_stack_walk+0x144/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xaa/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:329
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6a/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x17e/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:3519
 anon_vma_alloc mm/rmap.c:94 [inline]
 anon_vma_fork+0xe5/0x520 mm/rmap.c:361
 dup_mmap kernel/fork.c:734 [inline]
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1694 [inline]
 copy_mm+0x12c7/0x1e30 kernel/fork.c:1743
 copy_process+0x171d/0x3df0 kernel/fork.c:2508
 kernel_clone+0x24b/0x8a0 kernel/fork.c:2917
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:3060 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:3044 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x1b7/0x230 kernel/fork.c:3044
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f5fef3ec636
Code: 89 df e8 6d e8 f6 ff 45 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 64 48 8b 04 25 10 00 00 00 bf 11 00 20 01 4c 8d 90 d0 02 00 00 b8 38 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 52 89 c5 85 c0 75 31 64 48 8b 04 25 10 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007ffdf3d02f80 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffdf3d02f88 RCX: 00007f5fef3ec636
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
RBP: 00005644605a4c30 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000000000d0
R10: 00007f5fef252f50 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005644605b30b0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10502 jiffies! g91489 f0x0 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:26856 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 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+0x30d/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: 1 PID: 6738 Comm: kworker/u4:28 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:311 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xd85/0x1190 kernel/smp.c:855
Code: 45 8b 34 24 44 89 f6 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 54 f1 0a 00 41 83 e6 01 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 07 e8 8f ed 0a 00 eb 38 f3 90 <42> 0f b6 04 33 84 c0 75 11 41 f7 04 24 01 00 00 00 74 1e e8 73 ed
RSP: 0018:ffffc900049ef780 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff817bf7fd RBX: 1ffff110171c87a9 RCX: ffff8880761c3c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900049ef900 R08: ffffffff911e7507 R09: 1ffffffff223cea0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff223cea1 R12: ffff8880b8e43d48
R13: ffff8880b8f3d3c0 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc987ded2f8 CR3: 000000000cf32000 CR4: 00000000003526e0
DR0: ffffffffffffffff DR1: 00000000000001f8 DR2: 0000000000000083
DR3: ffffffffefffff15 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3f/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1022
 on_each_cpu include/linux/smp.h:71 [inline]
 text_poke_sync arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2222 [inline]
 text_poke_bp_batch+0x31e/0x980 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2432
 text_poke_flush arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2623 [inline]
 text_poke_finish+0x30/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2630
 arch_jump_label_transform_apply+0x1c/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:146
 static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x123/0x240 kernel/jump_label.c:207
 static_key_enable+0x1a/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:220
 toggle_allocation_gate+0xa8/0x260 mm/kfence/core.c:847
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 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>
net_ratelimit: 3913 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:2e:9d:61:0d:3d:04, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:2e:9d:61:0d:3d:04, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
net_ratelimit: 5191 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:2e:9d:61:0d:3d:04, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:2e:9d:61:0d:3d:04, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_0 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1b, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth0_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:2e:9d:61:0d:3d:04, vlan:0)

Crashes (18):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/08 12:17 linux-6.6.y da47cbc25466 88a4b44c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/07/06 02:06 linux-6.6.y da47cbc25466 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/06/26 03:32 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 7ff32d8b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/06/24 15:42 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 302586aa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/06/22 22:58 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/06/21 10:38 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/06/19 11:37 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb 570c59ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/05/18 12:27 linux-6.6.y eac8889a3a1c 55156e84 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/05/17 19:24 linux-6.6.y eac8889a3a1c de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/04/15 15:40 linux-6.6.y 8cee53b8eaeb c441f497 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
2026/04/05 04:57 linux-6.6.y 08667c1437c0 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_clone
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.