INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/03/27 11:38
Reported-by: syzbot+a0dc8f91386bb1406734@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 500d, last: 10d
Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (4) 1 1 495d 495d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/10 21:02
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (3) 1 1 644d 644d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/11 14:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2) kernel 1 2 1295d 1379d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/22 20:06
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (3) mm 1 syz, C error 408 1d21h 1092d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/08/13 23:42
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (5) 1 11 21d 318d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/09/25 16:42
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 4 710d 929d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/07 03:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink (2) 1 3 763d 774d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/15 13:02
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 45 10d 385d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/20 18:19
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink mm kasan 1 1 1470d 1470d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/29 07:23
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink 1 1 880d 880d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/20 14:47
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_unlink 1 7 822d 845d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/07 01:29

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P10543/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=93245, q=230 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:22384 pid:10543 ppid:10510  flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5246 [inline]
 __schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6563
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6875
 irqentry_exit+0x63/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:439
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x225/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5680
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 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 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3d 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004137560 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 8544c2cc7d9f7c00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c2920 RDI: ffffffff8adf5de0
RBP: ffffc90004137670 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff2162048
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2162049 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 1ffff92000826eb8 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 page_ext_get+0x3a/0x2a0 mm/page_ext.c:157
 __page_table_check_zero+0x134/0x4b0 mm/page_table_check.c:146
 page_table_check_free include/linux/page_table_check.h:46 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1488 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1537 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8f5/0x9e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3414
 free_unref_page_list+0xbb/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3555
 release_pages+0x20d1/0x2340 mm/swap.c:1035
 __pagevec_release+0x6d/0xe0 mm/swap.c:1055
 pagevec_release include/linux/pagevec.h:71 [inline]
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:135 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x808/0x21d0 mm/shmem.c:946
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1062 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x225/0x9f0 mm/shmem.c:1171
 evict+0x4b6/0x8b0 fs/inode.c:705
 do_unlinkat+0x388/0x580 fs/namei.c:4405
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4446 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4444 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x45/0x50 fs/namei.c:4444
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f1805b9d107
RSP: 002b:00007fffe9230ad8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000057
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f1805b9d107
RDX: 00007fffe9230b00 RSI: 00007fffe9230b90 RDI: 00007fffe9230b90
RBP: 00007fffe9230b90 R08: 00007fffe9231b90 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007fffe9231c20
R13: 00007f1805c3445c R14: 00000000001b6d71 R15: 00007fffe9231c60
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10531 jiffies! g93245 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=1 timer-softirq=85044
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10532 jiffies! g93245 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:26640 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5246 [inline]
 __schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6563
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6639
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x303/0x1350 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1905
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:742
Code: 48 89 df e8 17 47 99 f7 e9 44 ff ff ff e8 fd 03 f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 66 90 0f 00 2d 57 93 4c 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000177de8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 78be82ec0f29aa00 RBX: ffffffff8a3a18b7 RCX: 78be82ec0f29aa00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a8c17a0 RDI: ffffffff8adf5de0
RBP: ffffc90000177f20 R08: ffff8880b8f3580b R09: 1ffff110171e6b01
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6b02 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88813fef1e00 R15: 1ffff9200002efc8
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2fad09cff8 CR3: 000000006401c000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 default_idle_call+0x84/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:109
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x3a2/0x680 kernel/sched/idle.c:323
 cpu_startup_entry+0x3f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:422
 start_secondary+0xe4/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:281
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xcf/0xdb
 </TASK>
vkms_vblank_simulate: vblank timer overrun

Crashes (30):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/30 22:07 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/07/27 06:13 linux-6.1.y dc5c83b7f5f8 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/07/09 09:36 linux-6.1.y 090666d3cc90 b9f1ceaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/05/30 11:03 linux-6.1.y dcbcab9d7079 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/05/21 17:47 linux-6.1.y c27210688955 e195359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/05/10 08:07 linux-6.1.y ad16b162f21d 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/04/15 23:03 linux-6.1.y 8e8fc038cad5 c441f497 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/02/24 20:57 linux-6.1.y 779f9571ac3e 96b1aa46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/02/21 03:34 linux-6.1.y 779f9571ac3e 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/02/12 10:28 linux-6.1.y 8ce36b2849ef 76a109e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/02/10 17:51 linux-6.1.y 0182cb5b74ee 91d776d3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/02/01 14:55 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/01/31 23:55 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 afc0c4d4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/01/31 23:53 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 afc0c4d4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/01/31 23:48 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 afc0c4d4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/01/27 21:55 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/01/27 21:48 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2026/01/26 20:41 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 a4c52dd6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/12/10 18:37 linux-6.1.y 50cbba13faa2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/11/05 11:26 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/10/30 12:43 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/10/25 09:55 linux-6.1.y 8e6e2188d949 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/24 01:47 linux-6.1.y 363a599da6d9 e667a34f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/20 02:49 linux-6.1.y 363a599da6d9 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/10 06:06 linux-6.1.y f97f1002271b fdeaa69b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/09/08 18:04 linux-6.1.y 28c695c365e1 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/08/07 20:45 linux-6.1.y 3594f306da12 04cffc22 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/05/07 14:34 linux-6.1.y ac7079a42ea5 350f4ffc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/04/10 09:45 linux-6.1.y 3dfebb87d7eb 988b336c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
2025/03/27 11:38 linux-6.1.y 344a09659766 20510e88 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlink
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.