INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge (5)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/07 03:14
Subsystems: batman
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 104d, last: 104d
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2e98e175 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge (5) 2026/05/16 07:35 2026/05/16 07:35 2026/05/16 08:19 a15a64a6
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge 1 1 718d 718d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/09 22:28
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge (2) 1 1 373d 373d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/20 03:39
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge (2) batman 1 syz, C done inconclusive 3 1283d 1851d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/14 13:09
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge (4) batman 1 1 559d 559d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/07 20:48
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge cgroups mm 1 1 2416d 2416d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 08:13
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge 1 6 806d 879d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/12 14:42
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge (3) batman 1 1 1004d 989d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/17 16:44
upstream BUG: soft lockup in batadv_tt_purge batman 1 1 788d 786d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/20 21:14

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P1491/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=16469, q=106 ncpus=2)
task:kworker/u8:12   state:R  running task     stack:21528 pid:1491  tgid:1491  ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_tt_purge
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5396 [inline]
 __schedule+0x16f9/0x5500 kernel/sched/core.c:7197
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7521
 irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:547 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0x14f/0x760 kernel/entry/common.c:164
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x221/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5874
Code: ff ff ff e8 f1 0d 88 09 f7 44 24 08 00 02 00 00 0f 84 3a ff ff ff 65 48 8b 05 cb a8 cf 10 48 3b 44 24 58 75 33 fb 48 83 c4 60 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d 18 97 ed
RSP: 0000:ffffc900069679a0 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 477db0d56178e100 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: 000000001daa8100 RSI: ffffffff8d888131 RDI: ffffffff8ba85b60
RBP: ffffffff8af73588 R08: ffffffff8af73588 R09: ffff88805e2eb2d8
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f1595f R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff88805e2eb2d8 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000246
 rt_spin_lock+0x83/0x400 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:56
 spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:90 [inline]
 batadv_tt_global_purge net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:2235 [inline]
 batadv_tt_purge+0x138/0xa10 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:3515
 process_one_work+0x98b/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3306
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3389 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xb49/0x1140 kernel/workqueue.c:3470
 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: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10301 jiffies! g16469 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: 	Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=6199
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10302 jiffies! g16469 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:26720 pid:18    tgid:18    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5396 [inline]
 __schedule+0x16f9/0x5500 kernel/sched/core.c:7197
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7276 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7291
 schedule_timeout+0x158/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x312/0x11b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2095
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9e/0x2b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 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: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:64

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/08 03:09 linux-next 17c7841d09ee e358bca5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in batadv_tt_purge
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.