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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/15 19:10
Reported-by: syzbot+a849a53c24d6bd37aea3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 64d, last: 15d
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (4) mm 1 C error 498 2d17h 1151d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/10/25 00:38
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat origin:upstream 1 C done 8 377d 914d 3/3 fixed on 2025/01/19 08:56
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (2) origin:lts-only 1 syz inconclusive 6 17d 295d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/02/26 19:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (2) origin:lts-only 1 C done 4 4d21h 106d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/04 12:06
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat mm cgroups 1 1 2207d 2207d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat 1 19 227d 620d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/14 00:29
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (2) kernfs 1 1 1406d 1406d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/13 02:53
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat (3) tomoyo 1 1 1293d 1293d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/03 09:55

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6290/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=59733, q=269 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:21608 pid:6290  ppid:6269   flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:7009
 irqentry_exit+0x67/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:438
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x1f2/0x410 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5758
Code: 00 9c 8f 84 24 80 00 00 00 f6 84 24 81 00 00 00 02 0f 85 f5 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 04 3c 00 00 00 00 66 43 c7 44 3c 09 00 00 43 c6 44 3c 0b 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002e67600 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 5905fb33a4d91900
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8aaace60 RDI: ffffffff8afc6f80
RBP: ffffc90002e67710 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff21b52a0
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff21b52a1 R12: 1ffff920005ccecc
R13: ffffffff8cd2ff20 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 page_ext_get+0x3e/0x2b0 mm/page_ext.c:508
 __reset_page_owner+0x2e/0x190 mm/page_owner.c:145
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
 __slab_free+0x35e/0x410 mm/slub.c:3736
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:305
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x13e/0x260 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa4/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe3/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x20f/0x4b0 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 security_inode_getattr+0xd3/0x120 security/security.c:2153
 vfs_getattr fs/stat.c:173 [inline]
 vfs_fstat fs/stat.c:198 [inline]
 vfs_fstatat+0xc9/0x1b0 fs/stat.c:295
 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:463 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:457 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x117/0x190 fs/stat.c:457
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f17a938de3a
RSP: 002b:00007ffc7218ab88 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000106
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007f17a938de3a
RDX: 00007ffc7218ab90 RSI: 00007f17a9450f82 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffc7218ab90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000001000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffc7218bd90
R13: 00007f17a9413d7d R14: 00000000000d4258 R15: 00007ffc7218bdd0
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 4996 jiffies! g59733 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:27088 pid:17    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5380 [inline]
 __schedule+0x14d2/0x44d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6699
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6866
 preempt_schedule+0xab/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6890
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:45
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xfa/0x110 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
 prepare_to_swait_event+0x339/0x360 kernel/sched/swait.c:119
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2cd/0x1560 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1667
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x380 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: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d a3 14 39 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <c3> cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8ca07d80 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 817e7c1e90adca00 RBX: ffffffff8161881b RCX: 817e7c1e90adca00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8aaabce0 RDI: ffffffff8afc6f80
RBP: ffffffff8ca07eb8 R08: ffff8880b8e36b2b R09: 1ffff110171c6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6d66 R12: ffffffff8e4a93e8
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffffffff1952688
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055ffb879ba38 CR3: 000000000cb30000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:170 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1eb/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:282
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:380
 rest_init+0x2e2/0x300 init/main.c:744
 arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10 init/main.c:841
 start_kernel+0x459/0x4e0 init/main.c:1086
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:555
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x60/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:536
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/04 02:10 linux-6.6.y 4791134e4aeb d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2025/11/19 16:42 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 26ee5237 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2025/11/09 05:16 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2025/11/05 16:21 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
2025/10/15 19:09 linux-6.6.y 0bbbd97a442d 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_newfstatat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.