INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/30 16:16
Reported-by: syzbot+90bfd6edeabf1bee88ea@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 11h30m, last: 11h30m
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat net ext4 1 4 1234d 1436d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/13 16:11
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat (3) tomoyo mm 1 31 425d 450d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/09 16:45
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat (2) tomoyo 1 1 1099d 1099d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/25 04:08
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat 1 1 805d 805d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/24 13:32
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat 1 syz error 1 126d 126d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/04/27 03:08
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat 1 2 234d 317d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/18 09:38
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat (4) tomoyo fs 1 2 240d 255d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/02 11:46

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=55f/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=32672/32673 fqs=5246 
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=42917, q=1371)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 9514 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:perf_swevent_event+0x1bd/0x540 kernel/events/core.c:-1
Code: 8b 04 24 48 8d 98 f0 01 00 00 49 89 de 49 c1 ee 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 80 3c 06 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 93 b4 25 00 <48> 89 5c 24 08 4c 8b 3b 48 8d 5d 18 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000075e8 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888045d64990 RCX: ffff8880232bd940
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900000076c0 R08: ffffffff8d8b0eef R09: 1ffffffff1b161dd
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1b161de R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffff8880b90351c8 R14: 1ffff11008bac932 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055555c2a0500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffc6e525d10 CR3: 000000004ef19000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 perf_tp_event+0x324/0xbe0 kernel/events/core.c:10057
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10031
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2aa/0x360 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x7f/0x4a0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: eb 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 42 c7 44 2b 08 f8 f3 f3 f3 65 44 8b 35 f2 0f 9d 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 40 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 42 c7 44 2b 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007b00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 2d76885316930700 RBX: 1ffff92000000f64 RCX: 2d76885316930700
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: ffffffff8a7a43c0
RBP: ffffc90000007bd8 R08: ffffffff901ef177 R09: 1ffffffff203de2e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203de2f R12: ffffffff8c323400
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x132/0x140 net/mac80211/util.c:831
 mac80211_hwsim_beacon+0x9b/0x180 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1865
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4ea/0xb60 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x176/0x240 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1766
 handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xbc/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f7 44 24 20 00 02 00 00 41 c6 04 07 f8 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> ef 90 88 f7 65 8b 05 60 a8 38 76 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000333fb80 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: dffffc0000000004 RBX: 0000000000000a02 RCX: 2d76885316930700
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000333fc10 R08: ffffffff901ef177 R09: 1ffffffff203de2e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203de2f R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff92000667f94 R14: ffffffff965adce8 R15: 1ffff92000667f70
 debug_rcu_head_queue kernel/rcu/rcu.h:177 [inline]
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:2995 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xbb/0x900 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3091
 __dentry_kill+0x4db/0x630 fs/dcache.c:600
 dentry_kill+0xb8/0x290 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0xd8/0x1a0 fs/dcache.c:893
 do_rmdir+0x28a/0x710 fs/namei.c:4263
 __do_sys_unlinkat fs/namei.c:4441 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlinkat fs/namei.c:4435 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc0/0xe0 fs/namei.c:4435
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f5526b85277
Code: 77 01 c3 48 c7 c2 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 b8 07 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc6e526368 EFLAGS: 00000207 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000065 RCX: 00007f5526b85277
RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 00007ffc6e5274b0 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 00007f5526c1c474 R08: 00000000000065d0 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000207 R12: 00007ffc6e5274b0
R13: 00007f5526c1c474 R14: 0000000000076593 R15: 00007ffc6e5274f0
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/30 16:16 linux-5.15.y 28c35638ec51 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.