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INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/12/17 16:40
Reported-by: syzbot+ed7102c3fd41447141e8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 309d, last: 5d00h
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (4) kernel 1 1 1026d 1026d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/08 07:17
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (2) 1 19 18d 505d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/06/03 20:13
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault mm 1 13 2409d 2569d 0/29 closed as dup on 2019/01/02 16:58
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 6 42d 127d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/06/16 23:06
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 7 437d 502d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/18 20:23
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (5) cgroups mm 1 3 796d 816d 23/29 fixed on 2023/10/12 12:48
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault 1 1 781d 781d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/11 11:17
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (3) mm fs 1 4 1275d 1275d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/25 08:10
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (2) cgroups mm 1 1 2149d 2149d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/12/04 14:04
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault (6) mm 1 C 137 18d 398d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/09/19 14:28

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P7721/1:b..l P4719/1:b..l
	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=38341, q=66 ncpus=2)
task:kworker/u4:15   state:R  running task     stack:24160 pid:4719  ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_nc_worker
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_reschedule_ipi+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:696
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:193 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x32/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:216
Code: 54 a0 81 7e 65 8b 15 55 a0 81 7e 81 e2 00 01 ff 00 74 11 81 fa 00 01 00 00 75 35 83 b9 1c 16 00 00 00 74 2c 8b 91 f8 15 00 00 <83> fa 02 75 21 48 8b 91 00 16 00 00 48 8b 32 48 8d 7e 01 8b 89 fc
RSP: 0018:ffffc900061c7bd8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff89e195ed RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88802aced940
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8adef000 RDI: ffffffff8adeefc0
RBP: fffffffffffffe38 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff215c449
R10: fffffbfff215c449 R11: 1ffffffff215c448 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffffff89e194ae R14: ffff888058f30c80 R15: 00000000000002bb
 rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:820 [inline]
 batadv_nc_purge_orig_hash net/batman-adv/network-coding.c:412 [inline]
 batadv_nc_worker+0x20d/0x600 net/batman-adv/network-coding.c:719
 process_one_work+0x898/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
task:syz.2.829       state:R  running task     stack:25248 pid:7721  ppid:4273   flags:0x00004000
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:lockdep_enabled kernel/locking/lockdep.c:122 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x13f/0x490 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5638
Code: 65 8b 05 14 87 9f 7e 85 c0 0f 85 2f 01 00 00 65 4c 8b 35 c4 7c 9f 7e 49 81 c6 dc 0a 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 38 <84> c0 0f 85 19 02 00 00 41 83 3e 00 0f 85 02 01 00 00 48 c7 84 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004edefc0 EFLAGS: 00000a03
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 9712c16e773c7a00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8adef000 RDI: ffffffff8adeefc0
RBP: ffffc90004edf0c8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffffbfff1c3ecfe
R10: fffffbfff1c3ecfe R11: 1ffffffff1c3ecfd R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 1ffff920009dbe04 R14: ffff88805529289c 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
 __page_table_check_zero+0x134/0x4b0 mm/page_table_check.c:146
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2539 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a26/0x1ac0 mm/page_alloc.c:4328
 __alloc_pages+0x1df/0x4e0 mm/page_alloc.c:5614
 __folio_alloc+0xe/0x30 mm/page_alloc.c:5646
 vma_alloc_folio+0x4a3/0x900 mm/mempolicy.c:2243
 shmem_alloc_folio mm/shmem.c:1589 [inline]
 shmem_alloc_and_acct_folio+0x42e/0xb60 mm/shmem.c:1613
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x1361/0x3400 mm/shmem.c:1941
 shmem_fault+0x1be/0x7b0 mm/shmem.c:2156
 __do_fault+0x13b/0x4e0 mm/memory.c:4280
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:4631 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4760 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5031 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5173 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x28bf/0x3e60 mm/memory.c:5294
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:1026 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x3ff/0xeb0 mm/gup.c:1250
 populate_vma_page_range+0x214/0x2b0 mm/gup.c:1607
 __mm_populate+0x248/0x370 mm/gup.c:1721
 mm_populate include/linux/mm.h:2891 [inline]
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x203/0x2b0 mm/util.c:525
 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: 0033:0x7f217338efc9
RSP: 002b:00007f21715f6038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f21735e5fa0 RCX: 00007f217338efc9
RDX: b635773f06ebbeee RSI: 0000000000b36000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f2173411f91 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008031 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f21735e6038 R14: 00007f21735e5fa0 R15: 00007ffc7d4f2648
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10572 jiffies! g38341 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=1 timer-softirq=25098
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10573 jiffies! g38341 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->cpu=1
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:I stack:27840 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:1965
 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:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:742
Code: 48 89 df e8 f7 62 af f7 e9 4c ff ff ff e8 ad 07 f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 66 90 0f 00 2d e7 03 65 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:ffffc90000177de8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: b0801ea00093dd00 RBX: ffffffff8a219ec7 RCX: b0801ea00093dd00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a8c0500 RDI: ffffffff8adef020
RBP: ffffc90000177f20 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed10171e6afa
R10: ffffed10171e6afa R11: 1ffff110171e6af9 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff888017731dc0 R15: 1ffffffff1c3ed3e
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000100000000 CR3: 000000001d256000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
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:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1fc/0x570 kernel/sched/idle.c:303
 cpu_startup_entry+0x3f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:401
 start_secondary+0xe4/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:281
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xcf/0xdb
 </TASK>

Crashes (13):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/17 18:22 linux-6.1.y c2fda4b3f577 7adf5298 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/10/06 21:21 linux-6.1.y 882efbdd9d34 91305dbe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/09/10 05:54 linux-6.1.y f97f1002271b fdeaa69b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/08/13 18:41 linux-6.1.y 3594f306da12 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/07/20 10:23 linux-6.1.y 3369c6df2fae 7117feec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/06/30 15:56 linux-6.1.y 7e69c33e4858 fc9d8ee5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/06/12 14:27 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f 98683f8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/05/20 05:39 linux-6.1.y 325285d9fc86 b84f0537 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/03/22 01:04 linux-6.1.y 344a09659766 c6512ef7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/03/21 07:31 linux-6.1.y 344a09659766 62330552 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/03/12 11:58 linux-6.1.y 6ae7ac5c4251 ee70e6db .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2025/01/13 20:48 linux-6.1.y c63962be84ef 249ceea9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
2024/12/17 16:40 linux-6.1.y 52f863f820fd f93b2b55 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_fault
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.