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INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/08/12 12:28
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+894cac40ce97c83618bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 736d, last: 3d01h
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473ebbe0-2c6a-43f6-bd04-6589db0ddb8b assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 2026/05/22 01:12 2026/05/22 01:12 2026/05/22 02:01 d57425845dbe663f86e1e54a4997e95bd557b624
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[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 0 (1) 2024/08/12 12:28
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close (2) 1 2 21h48m 3d17h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/05/21 10:08
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 1 6 678d 728d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/23 16:14
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close 1 1 154d 154d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/31 08:37
linux-5.15 BUG: soft lockup in kcov_close 1 1 728d 728d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/03 09:36
upstream INFO: task hung in release_tty (3) serial 1 3 562d 627d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/07 03:06

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P9936/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=79861, q=551365 ncpus=2)
task:syz.2.1554      state:R  running task     stack:26720 pid:9936  tgid:9936  ppid:5642   task_flags:0x40044c flags:0x00080003
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:lock_release+0x2d7/0x3c0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5893
Code: ec 97 11 00 00 00 00 eb b5 e8 55 5c 07 0a f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 b9 65 48 8b 05 45 a7 97 11 48 3b 44 24 28 75 44 fb 48 83 c4 30 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d 62 4c 92
RSP: 0000:ffffc90010227568 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: ba4d8f05279f9e00 RBX: 0000000000000202 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e22036c RDI: ffffffff8c28b660
RBP: ffff88803309e7d0 R08: ffffffff81af61ed R09: ffffffff8e95cca0
R10: ffffc90010227678 R11: ffffffff81b0f020 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8e95cca0 R15: ffff88803309dc40
 rcu_lock_release include/linux/rcupdate.h:310 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:869 [inline]
 class_rcu_destructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1181 [inline]
 is_module_text_address+0x18b/0x1e0 kernel/module/main.c:3923
 kernel_text_address+0x94/0xe0 kernel/extable.c:119
 __kernel_text_address+0xd/0x30 kernel/extable.c:79
 unwind_get_return_address+0x4d/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:385
 arch_stack_walk+0xfb/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 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
 vfree+0x1d1/0x2f0 mm/vmalloc.c:3472
 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:442 [inline]
 kcov_close+0x28/0x50 kernel/kcov.c:543
 __fput+0x44f/0xa60 fs/file_table.c:510
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x70f/0x22c0 kernel/exit.c:976
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1119
 get_signal+0x1284/0x1330 kernel/signal.c:3037
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x840 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8c/0x4d0 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x33e/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f7db3f5d68e
RSP: 002b:00007f7db4e72f58 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e6
RAX: fffffffffffffdfc RBX: 00007f7db4e736c0 RCX: 00007f7db3f5d68e
RDX: 00007f7db4e72fb0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f7db4032d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7db4216038 R14: 00007f7db4215fa0 R15: 00007f7db433fa48
 </TASK>

Crashes (205):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/22 02:21 upstream 6779b50faa56 e195359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/20 22:24 upstream df685633c3db 62fb93a2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/19 06:41 upstream 4d3a2a466b8d 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/19 03:17 upstream 4d3a2a466b8d 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/17 01:20 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/15 02:06 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/14 22:29 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/14 11:55 upstream e1914add2799 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/13 16:17 upstream 1d5dcaa3bd65 fec2a7ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/12 23:08 upstream c21b90f77687 a0949470 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/08 11:55 upstream 917719c412c4 5633175a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/07 20:28 upstream 19cbc75c56c0 e358bca5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/05 02:53 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/23 06:22 upstream 2a4c0c11c019 b10da5ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/20 19:54 upstream c1f49dea2b8f e65da4ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/18 14:35 upstream 8541d8f725c6 303e2802 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/11 09:59 upstream 7c6c4ed80b87 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/04/06 04:05 upstream 1791c390149f 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/30 16:03 upstream 7aaa8047eafd 458630d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/21 05:54 upstream c612261bedd6 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/18 09:00 upstream f0caa1d49cc0 c8810548 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/13 23:17 upstream b36eb6e3f5d8 351cb5cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/24 16:44 upstream 7dff99b35460 96b1aa46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/23 08:40 upstream aaf96df9593b 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/18 03:00 upstream d295082ea672 39751c21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/16 11:23 upstream 0f2acd3148e0 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/16 01:38 upstream bb7a3fc2c976 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/14 16:20 upstream 770aaedb461a 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/12 13:12 upstream c22e26bd0906 76a109e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/10 21:18 upstream 72c395024dac 91d776d3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/07 10:02 upstream 2687c848e578 f20fc9f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/01/29 22:07 upstream 8dfce8991b95 aeb6fdd5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/01/24 11:29 upstream 62085877ae65 4f25b9b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/01/07 08:52 upstream f0b9d8eb98df d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/01/06 04:32 upstream 7f98ab9da046 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/01/04 15:58 upstream aacb0a6d604a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/23 06:42 upstream b927546677c8 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/21 18:18 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/21 08:23 upstream 9094662f6707 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/17 13:23 upstream ea1013c15392 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/15 12:44 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/15 07:13 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/09 06:03 upstream a110f942672c d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/02 19:05 upstream 4a26e7032d7d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/28 06:51 upstream aa7243aaf194 e8331348 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/27 08:07 upstream 4941a17751c9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/25 02:46 upstream ac3fd01e4c1e 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/11/24 16:34 upstream ac3fd01e4c1e bf6fe8fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/08/08 12:18 upstream 6a0e38264012 de12cf65 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/07/23 15:26 upstream 66ebbdfdeb09 708c10c4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/02/13 16:21 upstream cee73b1e840c 6a673c50 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/01/19 18:48 upstream 24d479d26b25 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/05/21 03:53 net 9a8e01c50093 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2026/03/13 12:07 net e5b31d988a41 2f7f359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/01/16 17:21 net-next 9eb8069d9940 968edaf4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/12/30 10:52 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 kcov_close
2025/12/17 21:33 linux-next 12b95d29eb97 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/08/10 08:33 linux-next b1549501188c 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/10/10 23:19 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 4a9fe2a8ac53 8fbfc0c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2024/07/17 15:49 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci c912bf709078 03114f55 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 INFO: rcu detected stall in kcov_close
2025/05/02 20:39 bpf-next f263336a41da b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce BUG: soft lockup in kcov_close
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.