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INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/20 19:30
Reported-by: syzbot+ecc91afd56cfea8535b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 155d, last: 10d
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill prio:high fs mm 1 C error 6 2d04h 5d13h 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/20 03:58
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill 1 13 7h46m 144d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/02/01 10:07
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill 1 syz 6 4d20h 50d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/05/06 04:01

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P4366/1:b..l P4779/1:b..l
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=12477, q=267 ncpus=2)
task:syz.2.98        state:R  running task     stack:25680 pid:4779  ppid:4283   flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 preempt_schedule_irq+0xbb/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:6874
 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:lock_acquire+0x225/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5666
Code: f7 84 24 80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 43 c6 44 3d 04 f8 0f 85 f0 00 00 00 41 f7 c6 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 48 c7 44 24 60 0e 36 e0 45 <4b> c7 44 3d 00 00 00 00 00 43 c7 44 3d 08 00 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005c2ef00 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 37cb52b04b32ae00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a8c2c20 RDI: ffffffff8adf2060
RBP: ffffc90005c2f020 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff215fe48
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff215fe49 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 1ffff92000b85dec R14: 0000000000000246 R15: dffffc0000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 page_ext_get+0x3a/0x2a0 mm/page_ext.c:157
 __reset_page_owner+0x31/0x1a0 mm/page_owner.c:144
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1486 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1536 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3413
 free_unref_page_list+0xbb/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3554
 release_pages+0x1fa6/0x2220 mm/swap.c:1035
 __pagevec_release+0x6d/0xe0 mm/swap.c:1055
 pagevec_release include/linux/pagevec.h:71 [inline]
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:135 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x7c2/0x20c0 mm/shmem.c:946
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1062 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x25b/0xa80 mm/shmem.c:1171
 evict+0x4c9/0x8d0 fs/inode.c:705
 __dentry_kill+0x431/0x650 fs/dcache.c:611
 dentry_kill+0xb8/0x290 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0xfa/0x1d0 fs/dcache.c:918
 __fput+0x5e0/0x920 fs/file_table.c:328
 task_work_run+0x1d0/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:203
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:39 [inline]
 do_exit+0x982/0x2480 kernel/exit.c:881
 do_group_exit+0x217/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1024
 get_signal+0x1272/0x1350 kernel/signal.c:2871
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc4/0x1350 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:871
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:292 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:303
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fd78a99ce59
RSP: 002b:00007ffcba57b938 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffdfc RBX: 0000000000020701 RCX: 00007fd78a99ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007fd78ac15fac
RBP: 0000000000000fd2 R08: 00331d8ee61c761a R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007ffcba57ba40 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffcba57ba60
R13: 00007fd78ac15fac R14: 00000000000216d3 R15: 00007ffcba57ba40
 </TASK>
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:24208 pid:4366  ppid:3640   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6731
 preempt_schedule+0xbc/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6755
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:34
 __raw_spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:160 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x3c/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:202
 spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock.h:401 [inline]
 loop_queue_work drivers/block/loop.c:894 [inline]
 loop_queue_rq+0x9d9/0xac0 drivers/block/loop.c:1874
 __blk_mq_issue_directly block/blk-mq.c:2643 [inline]
 __blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x46d/0x7f0 block/blk-mq.c:2696
 blk_mq_request_issue_directly block/blk-mq.c:2730 [inline]
 blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0x233/0x620 block/blk-mq.c:2750
 blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x6d8/0xc50 block/blk-mq.c:2850
 __blk_flush_plug+0x3e0/0x460 block/blk-core.c:1179
 blk_finish_plug+0x59/0x80 block/blk-core.c:1203
 read_pages+0x658/0x850 mm/readahead.c:184
 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x690/0x770 mm/readahead.c:270
 do_page_cache_ra mm/readahead.c:300 [inline]
 force_page_cache_ra mm/readahead.c:331 [inline]
 page_cache_sync_ra+0x3d7/0x490 mm/readahead.c:713
 page_cache_sync_readahead include/linux/pagemap.h:1250 [inline]
 filemap_get_pages mm/filemap.c:2665 [inline]
 filemap_read+0x646/0x3020 mm/filemap.c:2759
 blkdev_read_iter+0x42d/0x570 block/fops.c:668
 call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2259 [inline]
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:389 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x4a7/0xa00 fs/read_write.c:470
 ksys_read+0x14c/0x250 fs/read_write.c:613
 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: 0033:0x7fc8baea7407
RSP: 002b:00007ffdbe71c060 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fc8bb598880 RCX: 00007fc8baea7407
RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 00007fc8bb579000 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 0000563a19f40050 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000020000 R14: 0000563a19f4f338 R15: 00007fc8bb6bf39c
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10084 jiffies! g12477 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:27696 pid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5245 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11d1/0x40e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6562
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6638
 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2168
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x303/0x1340 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1706
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x3b0 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:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:742
Code: 48 89 df e8 37 34 9a f7 e9 44 ff ff ff e8 cd 06 f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 66 90 0f 00 2d a7 5a 4d 00 fb f4 <c3> 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8c807d88 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: b69fb4257af7c600 RBX: ffffffff8a395407 RCX: b69fb4257af7c600
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a8c1aa0 RDI: ffffffff8adf2060
RBP: ffffffff8c807ec0 R08: ffff8880b8e3580b R09: 1ffff110171c6b01
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171c6b02 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffff8c8bc740 R15: 1ffffffff1900fbc
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f269bf33df3 CR3: 000000002fc87000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 default_idle_call+0x84/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:109
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x250/0x680 kernel/sched/idle.c:323
 cpu_startup_entry+0x3f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:422
 rest_init+0x2dc/0x300 init/main.c:745
 arch_call_rest_init+0xa/0xa init/main.c:904
 start_kernel+0x493/0x53c init/main.c:1151
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xcf/0xdb
 </TASK>

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/15 04:57 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/05/29 05:17 linux-6.1.y dcbcab9d7079 4624854e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/04/21 00:52 linux-6.1.y 7c87defbd336 e65da4ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/04/12 08:45 linux-6.1.y 8e8fc038cad5 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/02/16 00:23 linux-6.1.y 8ce36b2849ef 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/02/13 02:34 linux-6.1.y 8ce36b2849ef 504cb1bf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/02/08 10:28 linux-6.1.y 0182cb5b74ee 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/02/08 00:14 linux-6.1.y 0182cb5b74ee 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/01/29 21:58 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 aeb6fdd5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/01/27 17:36 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
2026/01/20 19:29 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 06648d9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in dentry_kill
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.