INFO: rcu detected stall in cpu_stop_should_run (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/09/18 16:24
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 94d, last: 94d
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0d6acc6f assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in cpu_stop_should_run (2) 2026/06/22 00:03 2026/06/22 00:03 2026/06/22 01:02 43bfcdb0
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in cpu_stop_should_run kernel 1 1 817d 817d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/26 01:50

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=19685, q=2740 ncpus=2)
rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 4442 (4294968145-4294963703), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x0
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 4442 jiffies! g19685 f0x2 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->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:R  running task     stack:28520 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5504 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d9/0x56c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7228
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7307 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7322
 schedule_timeout+0x152/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x30c/0x11f0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2123
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2325
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 22 Comm: migration/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Stopper: 0x0 <- 0x0
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0x17b/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:510
Code: e8 03 48 89 04 24 42 0f b6 04 20 84 c0 0f 85 92 1c 00 00 4c 89 7c 24 10 4c 89 6c 24 50 0f b6 1b 48 8b 44 24 20 42 80 3c 20 00 <4d> 8d 7e 48 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 a7 a7 ba 00 49 8b 2f 48 83 f3 01 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a07668 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 1ffff92000140ef6 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000080000102
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8c291100 RDI: ffffffff8c2910c0
RBP: 1ffff92000140ef4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90000a07768 R11: fffff52000140ef9 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffffff8176a21f R14: ffffc90000a07768 R15: 1ffff92000140eed
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88812537c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f6a9a5498f0 CR3: 000000003799e000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __unwind_start+0x514/0x660 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:787
 unwind_start arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h:64 [inline]
 arch_stack_walk+0xe3/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:24
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2700 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6310 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x182/0x650 mm/slub.c:6437
 skb_ext_del include/linux/skbuff.h:5102 [inline]
 nf_bridge_info_free net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:157 [inline]
 br_nf_dev_queue_xmit+0x4f6/0x2540 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:856
 NF_HOOK+0x64e/0x6e0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
 br_nf_post_routing+0xa53/0xee0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:964
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xc5/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:619
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:273 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x23e/0x3f0 include/linux/netfilter.h:316
 br_forward_finish+0xd3/0x130 net/bridge/br_forward.c:66
 br_nf_hook_thresh net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:1165 [inline]
 br_nf_forward_finish+0xa76/0xea0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:667
 NF_HOOK+0x64e/0x6e0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
 br_nf_forward_ip+0x7eb/0xa30 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:721
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xc5/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:619
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:273 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x23e/0x3f0 include/linux/netfilter.h:316
 __br_forward+0x397/0x540 net/bridge/br_forward.c:115
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x1175/0x1990 net/bridge/br_input.c:229
 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x3dd/0x4c0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:-1
 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x90c/0xc40 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:-1
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x382/0x6f0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:183
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:291 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x127f/0x1510 net/bridge/br_input.c:442
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x989/0x30b0 net/core/dev.c:6093
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6204 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6319 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x706/0x1860 net/core/dev.c:6670
 __napi_poll+0xaa/0x330 net/core/dev.c:7729
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7792 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x61d/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:7949
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:735
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:752
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:cpu_stop_should_run+0x0/0xd0 kernel/stop_machine.c:476
Code: ad 03 00 eb b6 e8 b0 ad 03 00 e8 cb 26 71 ff eb d4 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 <f3> 0f 1e fa 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 89 fd e8 7d ad 03 00 89 eb bf
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001c7d80 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffff88801aeb0060 RBX: 1ffff11003bd76ed RCX: ffffffff8e9ae378
RDX: ffffffff8191edc6 RSI: ffffffff8e804a40 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff88801deb9f00 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: ffffffff81c24890 R12: ffff88801deb9f18
R13: ffff88801debb768 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x4be/0xa80 kernel/smpboot.c:154
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
net_ratelimit: 87171 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:0)

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/20 16:16 net 96e7f9122aae 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in cpu_stop_should_run
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.