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INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/23 13:35
Reported-by: syzbot+e51b463bd916f2ba7b55@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 40d, last: 2d22h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl mm 1 4 349d 424d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/18 05:25
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 1 302d 302d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/14 12:09
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl 1 3 16d 41d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/11/22 11:39

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	0-....: (10 ticks this GP) idle=977/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=6565/6566 fqs=5247 
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=6877, q=1349)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 4379 Comm: syz.1.2 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:mark_lock+0xe2/0x320 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4569
Code: 03 42 0f b6 04 28 84 c0 0f 85 06 02 00 00 83 3d 23 5e ae 14 00 74 36 45 31 ff 49 83 c7 50 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 <74> 08 4c 89 ff e8 34 83 5f 00 b8 01 00 00 00 45 85 27 74 50 48 83
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007060 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 1ffffffff1f265f2 RBX: ffff88801df25940 RCX: ffffffff815cb124
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff8ffaa0c0
RBP: 0000000000000009 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff5419
R10: fffffbfff1ff5419 R11: 1ffffffff1ff5418 R12: 0000000000000200
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88801df264a8 R15: ffffffff8f932f90
FS:  00007f9d33f056c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000004 CR3: 000000001e9e4000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 mark_usage kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4512 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0xd5a/0x7c60 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4966
 lock_acquire+0x197/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5623
 rcu_lock_acquire+0x2a/0x30 include/linux/rcupdate.h:313
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:740 [inline]
 BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY include/linux/bpf.h:1431 [inline]
 trace_call_bpf+0xf3/0x5a0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:127
 perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0x79/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10016
 perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2be/0x380 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
 trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
 trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x84/0x480 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: f1 f1 f1 00 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 66 42 c7 44 2b 09 f3 f3 42 c6 44 2b 0b f3 65 44 8b 35 ed 11 9e 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 45 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 2b
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000077a0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 260e382e28d85000 RBX: 1ffff92000000ef8 RCX: 260e382e28d85000
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1be0 RDI: ffffffff8a59e800
RBP: ffffc90000007880 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff541a
R10: fffffbfff1ff541a R11: 1ffffffff1ff5419 R12: ffffffff8c120c00
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x93a/0xb90 net/core/dev.c:5760
 gro_normal_list net/core/dev.c:5913 [inline]
 napi_complete_done+0x37d/0x830 net/core/dev.c:6651
 virtqueue_napi_complete drivers/net/virtio_net.c:357 [inline]
 virtnet_poll+0x912/0xef0 drivers/net/virtio_net.c:1624
 __napi_poll+0xc0/0x430 net/core/dev.c:7075
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7142 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x4a8/0x9c0 net/core/dev.c:7232
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xa5/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: 74 05 e8 be 9a d2 f7 48 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f6 44 24 21 02 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> d6 22 a6 f7 65 8b 05 67 20 57 76 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000343f160 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 260e382e28d85000 RBX: 0000000000000a02 RCX: 260e382e28d85000
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a0b1be0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc9000343f1f8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1ff541a
R10: fffffbfff1ff541a R11: 1ffffffff1ff5419 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88801edd1000 R14: ffffffff9631cb20 R15: 1ffff92000687e2c
 __debug_check_no_obj_freed lib/debugobjects.c:982 [inline]
 debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x515/0x530 lib/debugobjects.c:1003
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1345 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x237/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x94/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2020 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2026 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1a5/0x200 mm/slub.c:2512
 put_cpu_partial+0x12d/0x190 mm/slub.c:2592
 qlist_free_all+0x35/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x150/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:444
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x100/0x290 mm/slub.c:3238
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:728 [inline]
 __kernfs_new_node+0xd6/0x680 fs/kernfs/dir.c:593
 kernfs_new_node+0x148/0x250 fs/kernfs/dir.c:669
 __kernfs_create_file+0x47/0x2e0 fs/kernfs/file.c:985
 sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0x2d4/0x3a0 fs/sysfs/file.c:317
 create_files fs/sysfs/group.c:64 [inline]
 internal_create_group+0x489/0xcf0 fs/sysfs/group.c:149
 netdev_queue_add_kobject net/core/net-sysfs.c:1672 [inline]
 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x1bc/0x3e0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1711
 register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:1772 [inline]
 netdev_register_kobject+0x265/0x310 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2018
 register_netdevice+0x1019/0x16b0 net/core/dev.c:10397
 tun_set_iff+0x82a/0xda0 drivers/net/tun.c:2802
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x722/0x1e70 drivers/net/tun.c:3062
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f9d35c9e749
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:00007f9d33f05038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9d35ef4fa0 RCX: 00007f9d35c9e749
RDX: 00002000000000c0 RSI: 00000000400454ca RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f9d35d22f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9d35ef5038 R14: 00007f9d35ef4fa0 R15: 00007fff52592008
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/30 15:16 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
2025/11/23 13:35 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf INFO: rcu detected stall in __tun_chr_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.