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INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/14 22:22
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+8b65a69dedebce19fd11@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 394d, last: 12d
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[syzbot] [mm?] [block?] INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 0 (1) 2026/02/14 22:22
Similar bugs (16)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 1 1 21d 21d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/06/10 03:23
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 1 1 2638d 2638d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/08 13:45
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 1 1 235d 235d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/15 23:07
linux-4.14 INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64 (2) 1 3 2155d 2310d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/12/03 20:18
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (3) mm 1 2 1527d 1527d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/25 08:10
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (4) net 1 1 1268d 1268d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/18 07:19
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (6) fs mm 1 6 613d 774d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/24 02:27
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 1 588d 588d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/27 23:01
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 lsm 1 C 4 2751d 2751d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/12/19 10:12
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 C done error 100 1637d 2720d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:47
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (2) 1 3 2296d 2348d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/07/16 06:45
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (7) mm 1 1 509d 509d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/07 22:38
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 1142d 1142d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/24 12:36
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 (5) fs 1 1 959d 959d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/14 10:13
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 2630d 2630d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/16 04:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64 1 1 705d 705d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/03 00:47

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P10210/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=627653, q=3037 ncpus=2)
task:syz.9.19899     state:R  running task     stack:27480 pid:10210 tgid:10202 ppid:23668  task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5504 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d9/0x56c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7228
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7552
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:539 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x8f0 kernel/entry/common.c:167
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
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 97 8f 87 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:ffffc9000818f2b8 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 733fe50436105200 RBX: ffffc9000818f378 RCX: 0000000080000001
RDX: ffffc9000818f301 RSI: ffffffff8c292100 RDI: ffffffff8c2920c0
RBP: 1ffffffff21a6a01 R08: ffffc9000818f810 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000818f3b8 R11: fffff52001031e79 R12: ffffc90008188000
R13: ffffffff8176a21f R14: ffffc9000818f368 R15: ffffc9000818f820
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:873 [inline]
 class_rcu_destructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1183 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0x1baf/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:1397 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc0d/0xd20 mm/page_alloc.c:2938
 __slab_free+0x274/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:5672
 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_kmalloc+0x22/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:406
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5334 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x358/0x750 mm/slub.c:5347
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:973 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1286 [inline]
 iter_file_splice_write+0x1ea/0x1240 fs/splice.c:678
 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:936 [inline]
 direct_splice_actor+0x101/0x160 fs/splice.c:1159
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x57b/0xcb0 fs/splice.c:1103
 do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1202 [inline]
 do_splice_direct+0x195/0x290 fs/splice.c:1228
 do_sendfile+0x52e/0x7c0 fs/read_write.c:1371
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1432 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64+0x144/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:1418
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2555f9ce59
RSP: 002b:00007f2556ed5028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000028
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2556216180 RCX: 00007f2555f9ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f2556032e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000007fffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2556216218 R14: 00007f2556216180 R15: 00007f255633fa48
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 257 jiffies! g627653 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:28408 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5504 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d9/0x56c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7228
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7307 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7322
 schedule_timeout+0x152/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x30c/0x11f0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2123
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2325
 kthread+0x388/0x470 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 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 19204 Comm: kworker/u8:27 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
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:342 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0x10b0/0x14b0 kernel/smp.c:892
Code: c0 75 73 41 8b 1e 89 de 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 28 1d 0c 00 83 e3 01 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 07 e8 d4 18 0c 00 eb 37 f3 90 <41> 0f b6 04 1c 84 c0 75 10 41 f7 06 01 00 00 00 74 1e e8 b9 18 0c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90006a9f720 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81ba0887 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffff888077290000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90006a9f860 R08: ffffffff903147f7 R09: 1ffffffff20628fe
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff20628ff R12: 1ffff110170e8199
R13: ffff8880b863c2c8 R14: ffff8880b8740cc8 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125269000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fd932016038 CR3: 000000000e746000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000004 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3f/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1057
 on_each_cpu include/linux/smp.h:72 [inline]
 smp_text_poke_sync_each_cpu arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2773 [inline]
 smp_text_poke_batch_finish+0x5fd/0x1110 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2983
 arch_jump_label_transform_apply+0x1c/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:146
 static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x128/0x240 kernel/jump_label.c:210
 static_key_enable+0x1a/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:223
 toggle_allocation_gate+0xab/0x290 mm/kfence/core.c:906
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x388/0x470 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 (39):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/19 00:20 upstream 9e7e66334583 a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2026/06/16 05:57 upstream 0e0611827f33 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2026/02/08 20:44 upstream e98f34af6116 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/12/29 02:06 upstream c875a6c32467 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/11/02 12:21 upstream 691d401c7e0e 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/06/01 18:56 upstream 7d4e49a77d99 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/12/10 20:04 linux-next 008d3547aae5 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/10/17 10:18 linux-next 2433b8476165 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/10/03 18:17 linux-next 47a8d4b89844 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/09/02 09:39 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/09/02 04:33 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/31 00:34 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/30 16:01 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/29 13:44 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f 3e1beec6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/24 03:52 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/22 20:15 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/17 19:28 linux-next 931e46dcbc7e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/17 06:04 linux-next 931e46dcbc7e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/16 07:57 linux-next 931e46dcbc7e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/16 01:38 linux-next 931e46dcbc7e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/08/13 23:03 linux-next 2674d1eadaa2 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2025/07/31 23:38 linux-next 84b92a499e7e 0c075d67 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in sendfile64
2026/04/28 01:38 upstream 3b3bea6d4b9c ce741359 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/04/15 05:15 upstream 883af1f8e878 e2e976a8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/04/10 11:49 upstream 9a9c8ce300cd 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/04/10 11:05 upstream 9a9c8ce300cd 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/04/04 11:20 upstream 631919fb12fe 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/03/07 12:01 upstream 4ae12d8bd9a8 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/02/24 09:25 upstream 7dff99b35460 41d2fa6a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/02/10 22:07 upstream 72c395024dac a076df6f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/02/10 08:14 upstream 8a5203c630c6 4ab09a02 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2026/01/07 02:48 upstream f0b9d8eb98df d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/21 17:55 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/19 22:15 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/18 08:59 upstream ea1013c15392 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/15 22:58 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/12/14 00:46 upstream 9d9c1cfec01c d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/11/11 20:10 upstream 4427259cc7f7 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
2025/07/29 07:33 upstream ced1b9e0392d c4a95487 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendfile64
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.