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INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/29 06:28
Reported-by: syzbot+de6c09fe906b3915c85b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 93d, last: 4d21h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy 1 1 66d 66d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/04/25 20:23
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in inet_frag_destroy (2) 1 1 470d 470d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/15 23:42
android-54 BUG: soft lockup in inet_frag_destroy 1 3 733d 742d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/25 04:36

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1-.... } 2671 jiffies s: 88553 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: 20872 Comm: syz.3.4080 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:182 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:245 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x1b/0x80 kernel/kcov.c:313
Code: 7c 11 10 48 89 74 11 18 48 89 44 11 20 c3 90 48 8b 04 24 65 48 8b 15 c4 4a 80 7e 65 8b 0d c5 4a 80 7e 81 e1 00 01 ff 00 74 11 <81> f9 00 01 00 00 75 5b 83 ba 1c 16 00 00 00 74 52 8b 8a f8 15 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e0418 EFLAGS: 00000006
RAX: ffffffff8139f1a7 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000100
RDX: ffff8880789c8000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffffffff8e200f6f R09: 1ffffffff1c401ed
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c401ee R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000008 R14: ffffffff8139eec8 R15: ffff88813fff92e0
FS:  00007f97b183d6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00002000000012c0 CR3: 0000000044c43000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000008d24 DR1: 0000200000000300 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __virt_addr_valid+0x467/0x540 arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:65
 kasan_addr_to_slab+0x9/0xc0 mm/kasan/common.c:36
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:471
 irq_work_queue_on+0x10f/0x260 kernel/irq_work.c:140
 rcu_read_unlock_special+0x3c9/0x510 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:678
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:426
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:823 [inline]
 trace_call_bpf+0x5bb/0x6b0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:137
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0x79/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10027
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x268/0x320 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_disable include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:36 [inline]
 trace_hardirqs_off_finish+0x13f/0x180 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:67
 irqentry_enter+0x33/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:382
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [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 cb 23 f7 65 8b 05 f0 7c cd 75 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e0940 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: dffffc0000000004 RBX: 0000000000000a02 RCX: 672e5b8672d34100
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c17a0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc900001e09d0 R08: ffffffff90af234f R09: 1ffffffff215e469
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff215e46a R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff9200003c14c R14: ffffffff96ee98e8 R15: 1ffff9200003c128
 debug_rcu_head_queue kernel/rcu/rcu.h:191 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xbb/0x950 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2834
 inet_frag_destroy+0x1b3/0x230 net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:303
 call_timer_fn+0x1ac/0x670 kernel/time/timer.c:1701
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1752 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x56c/0x810 kernel/time/timer.c:2023
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2036
 handle_softirqs+0x291/0x910 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:679
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:691
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:check_preemption_disabled+0x0/0x110 lib/smp_processor_id.c:13
Code: c7 80 a1 bc 8c 4c 89 f6 e8 6d b8 0c fa e9 6e ff ff ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 48 c7 c7 40 e1 de 8a 48 c7 c6 80 e1 de 8a eb 00 <55> 41 57 41 56 53 48 83 ec 10 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005cb7b58 EFLAGS: 00000283
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff81647590
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8adee180 RDI: ffffffff8adee140
RBP: ffffc90005cb7c90 R08: ffffffff8e200f6f R09: 1ffffffff1c401ed
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c401ee R12: 1ffff92000b96f98
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 1ffff92000b96f7c
 rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs include/linux/context_tracking.h:122 [inline]
 rcu_is_watching+0x11/0xa0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:721
 trace_lock_release include/trace/events/lock.h:69 [inline]
 lock_release+0xcf/0x920 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5673
 __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xc8/0x6c0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:907
 __do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:12838 [inline]
 __se_sys_perf_event_open+0x1c56/0x1ec0 kernel/events/core.c:12418
 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: 0033:0x7f97b099ce59
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f97b183d028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f97b0c15fa0 RCX: 00007f97b099ce59
RDX: ffffffffffffffff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00002000000012c0
RBP: 00007f97b0a32e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f97b0c16038 R14: 00007f97b0c15fa0 R15: 00007ffd31c22628
 </TASK>

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/26 04:47 linux-6.1.y fdb6fcb41cc7 7ff32d8b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
2026/05/27 04:42 linux-6.1.y dcbcab9d7079 2b01f00e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
2026/05/22 04:59 linux-6.1.y c27210688955 70ae9b03 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
2026/03/29 06:27 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 b5ceaad2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in inet_frag_destroy
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.