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INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames (3)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/04 22:16
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+b15cab4e17027c582344@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 43d, last: 14d
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/12/02 linux-6.1.y (ToT) f6e38ae624cf C [report] INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/12/02 upstream (ToT) 4a26e7032d7d C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames wireless 1 C error 682 22h22m 550d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/06/15 21:07
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames 1 1 307d 307d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/24 12:07
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames (2) 1 13 1d00h 111d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/08/28 08:46
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames (2) 1 1 328d 328d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/04 02:50
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames 1 1 151d 151d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/27 16:58
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames 1 4 458d 478d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/24 22:17
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/12/06 01:27 3h27m fix candidate upstream OK (0) job log

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1-.... } 2673 jiffies s: 3321 root: 0x2/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 4489 Comm: syz.0.33 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x0/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:690
Code: e9 f5 04 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 0f 01 ca fc 6a ff e8 f5 03 00 00 48 89 c4 48 89 e7 e8 aa bf d7 ff e9 d5 04 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 <0f> 01 ca fc 6a ff e8 d5 03 00 00 48 89 c4 48 89 e7 e8 fa bd d7 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e0968 EFLAGS: 00000006
RAX: 4cbbb80487260a00 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 4cbbb80487260a00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c0580 RDI: ffffffff8adef760
RBP: ffffc900001e0bf0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1c3ed56
R10: fffffbfff1c3ed56 R11: 1ffffffff1c3ed55 R12: fffffffffffffff0
R13: ffffffff8180de4b R14: ffff888024f55940 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  000055558fc34500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000002a367000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
RIP: 0010:kcov_remote_start+0x27/0x7e0 kernel/kcov.c:932
Code: 44 00 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 18 65 4c 8b 35 6a 91 81 7e 48 b8 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff 00 48 85 c7 74 11 0f 0b <48> 83 c4 18 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 39
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e0990 EFLAGS: 00000206
 kcov_remote_start_common include/linux/kcov.h:50 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_list+0x4c5/0x2d00 net/mac80211/rx.c:5288
 ieee80211_rx_napi+0x1a6/0x3c0 net/mac80211/rx.c:5329
 ieee80211_rx include/net/mac80211.h:4846 [inline]
 ieee80211_handle_queued_frames+0x105/0x1b0 net/mac80211/main.c:317
 tasklet_action_common+0x298/0x400 kernel/softirq.c:826
 handle_softirqs+0x2a1/0x920 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:679
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:691
 instr_sysvec_irq_work arch/x86/kernel/irq_work.c:17 [inline]
 sysvec_irq_work+0x9d/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/irq_work.c:17
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:728
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:169 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0xd/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
Code: c3 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff c3 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff c3 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc b0 01 48 85 f6 0f 84 a4 01 00 00 41 57 <41> 56 53 49 89 f8 49 01 f0 0f 82 57 02 00 00 49 89 f8 49 c1 e8 2f
RSP: 0018:ffffc900036577a0 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000010 RCX: ffffffff8138703a
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000010 RDI: ffffc900036578f8
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000016 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: fffff520006caf21 R11: 1ffff920006caf1f R12: 1ffff920006caf16
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffc900036578f8 R15: ffffc900036578dd
 memset+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/shadow.c:44
 unwind_next_frame+0xb8a/0x20b0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:546
 arch_stack_walk+0x10c/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x98/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf3/0x1e0 mm/page_owner.c:127
 __reset_page_owner+0x51/0x1a0 mm/page_owner.c:148
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1459 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1509 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3384
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3479
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:168 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x76/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:187
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x144/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:294
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x1e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:305
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4b/0x480 mm/slab.h:737
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3359 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3367 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3374 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x123/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:3383
 getname_flags+0xb7/0x500 fs/namei.c:139
 do_sys_openat2+0xcf/0x490 fs/open.c:1312
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1334 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1350 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1345 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1345
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f317f58f749
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fffdcf91b88 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f317f7e5fa0 RCX: 00007f317f58f749
RDX: 0000000000100002 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f317f613f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f317f7e5fa0 R14: 00007f317f7e5fa0 R15: 0000000000000004
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/02 02:10 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/12/03 19:05 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/12/01 22:29 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/11/24 08:55 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/11/07 19:32 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
2025/11/04 22:15 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf 686bf657 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in ieee80211_handle_queued_frames
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.