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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/28 13:27
Reported-by: syzbot+cedf6a23be74bf99204c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 15d
Similar bugs (18)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (2) mm 1 2 2203d 2203d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:14
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (6) mm 1 3 732d 779d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/11 17:33
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg 1 2 507d 554d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/01 14:13
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (4) 1 6 19d 65d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/10/10 06:08
linux-6.1 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg 1 2 897d 926d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/08 22:57
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg 1 1 984d 984d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/02 15:37
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (3) kernel 1 3 1437d 1537d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:00
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (2) 1 1 583d 583d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/17 11:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (5) net 1 3 923d 936d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/03 00:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (3) 1 16 225d 445d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/10 13:38
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (7) tipc mm 1 96 2d12h 378d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2024/11/30 18:05
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (2) 1 1 204d 204d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/31 10:43
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg net 1 2 2286d 2287d 13/29 fixed on 2019/10/09 10:54
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg (4) net 1 1 1236d 1236d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/25 00:28
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg 1 1 566d 566d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/24 08:55
android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg 1 1 779d 779d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/25 01:21
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg 1 2 482d 482d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/17 00:13
android-5-10 BUG: soft lockup in sys_sendmmsg (2) 1 syz 18 41d 355d 0/2 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2024/12/23 13:44

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P9866/3:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=52997, q=275 ncpus=2)
task:syz.9.1175      state:R  running task     stack:23264 pid:9866  ppid:8004   flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
 __schedule+0x10ec/0x40b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6561
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xb1/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:6873
 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:skb_set_nfct include/linux/skbuff.h:4635 [inline]
RIP: 0010:nf_ct_set include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:374 [inline]
RIP: 0010:resolve_normal_ct net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1901 [inline]
RIP: 0010:nf_conntrack_in+0x8d8/0x1770 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2031
Code: 6c 24 48 0f 85 d3 05 00 00 41 c1 ef 13 0f b6 44 24 60 44 08 f8 0f b6 c0 c1 e0 13 41 81 e4 ff ff f7 ff 41 09 c4 48 8b 44 24 40 <44> 89 20 48 8b 84 24 80 00 00 00 80 3c 18 00 49 89 dc 4c 8b 74 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000c2e7340 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: ffff888059686bc2 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: ffff888027549dc0 RSI: 0000000000080000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000c2e7600 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed100fa1b419
R10: ffffed100fa1b419 R11: 1ffff1100fa1b418 R12: 0000000000080000
R13: ffff888059686ba8 R14: 1ffff1100b2d0d78 R15: 0000000000000001
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:142 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xb9/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:614
 nf_hook+0x211/0x370 include/linux/netfilter.h:257
 __ip_local_out+0x49c/0x5d0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:115
 ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:124 [inline]
 __ip_queue_xmit+0xf66/0x19b0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:532
 l2tp_ip_sendmsg+0x613/0x1580 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c:500
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x59b/0x970 net/socket.c:2519
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21c/0x290 net/socket.c:2573
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x272/0x490 net/socket.c:2659
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2688 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2685 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x9c/0xb0 net/socket.c:2685
 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: 0033:0x7fd5b518f749
RSP: 002b:00007fd5b60d5038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd5b53e5fa0 RCX: 00007fd5b518f749
RDX: 00000000040000cf RSI: 0000200000000900 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fd5b5213f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fd5b53e6038 R14: 00007fd5b53e5fa0 R15: 00007ffedc84b048
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9741 jiffies! g52997 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:27200 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
 __schedule+0x10ec/0x40b0 kernel/sched/core.c:6561
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6637
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:2167
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2f2/0x1310 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x95/0x380 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
NMI backtrace for cpu 0 skipped: idling at default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:741

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/28 13:26 linux-6.1.y f6e38ae624cf d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_sendmmsg
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.