INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_open (3)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/09/18 21:57
Subsystems: block
Labels: prio:normal
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First crash: 110d, last: 110d
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17896117 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_open (3) 2026/06/22 00:04 2026/06/22 00:04 2026/06/22 01:09 43bfcdb0
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_open 1 1 2072d 2072d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/06/04 10:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_open (2) lsm 1 1 796d 796d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/02 03:56
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_open mm 1 1 2465d 2465d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2020/01/08 05:23
android-6-1 BUG: soft lockup in blkdev_open 1 1 226d 226d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/25 16:10

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, vlan:0)
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P30650/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=377637, q=3286 ncpus=2)
task:syz.1.24833     state:R  running task     stack:23832 pid:30650 tgid:30650 ppid:20325  task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5504 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d9/0x56c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7228
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7409
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x40 arch/x86/entry/thunk.S:12
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xe1/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:457
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]
 cfg80211_mlme_unregister_socket+0x2c8/0x650 net/wireless/mlme.c:780
 nl80211_netlink_notify+0x356/0x840 net/wireless/nl80211.c:22939
 notifier_call_chain+0x1a5/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x6a/0x90 kernel/notifier.c:380
 netlink_release+0x11f8/0x1aa0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:762
 __sock_release net/socket.c:710 [inline]
 sock_close+0xad/0x220 net/socket.c:1501
 __fput+0x418/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:70 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1fa/0x730 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x353/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f19c579ce59
RSP: 002b:00007fffb6f07f28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f19c5a17da0 RCX: 00007f19c579ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f19c5a17da0 R08: 00007f19c5a16038 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000003ffd4c R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000017e03a
R13: 00007f19c5a15fac R14: 000000000017ddd0 R15: 00007fffb6f08030
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 1090 jiffies! g377637 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:28040 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:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 28915 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:rcu_is_watching+0x70/0xb0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:754
Code: c3 d8 78 3b 93 49 03 1e 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 38 84 c0 75 34 8b 03 65 ff 0d e9 55 8f 11 74 11 83 e0 04 c1 e8 02 5b <41> 5e 41 5f e9 47 ea ff 09 cc e8 21 85 88 ff eb e8 48 c7 c7 80 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000061c8 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000080000302
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8c291100 RDI: ffffffff8c2910c0
RBP: ffffffff8176a21f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90000006378 R11: ffffffff81b10630 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8e959a20 R14: ffffffff8e27c7d0 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007fbdb0f4f880(0000) GS:ffff88812527c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f272cd13ff8 CR3: 0000000011f10000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:23 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x5f/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5831
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:840 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1183 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xac/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 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_reset include/linux/skbuff.h:5119 [inline]
 skb_scrub_packet+0x2c8/0x3d0 net/core/skbuff.c:6278
 ____dev_forward_skb include/linux/netdevice.h:4444 [inline]
 __dev_forward_skb2+0x28c/0x730 net/core/dev.c:2441
 veth_forward_skb drivers/net/veth.c:323 [inline]
 veth_xmit+0x493/0xe60 drivers/net/veth.c:379
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5387 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5396 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3889 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2cd/0x830 net/core/dev.c:3905
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1435/0x37f0 net/core/dev.c:4872
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3436 [inline]
 br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x370/0x4b0 net/bridge/br_forward.c:53
 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:console_trylock_spinning kernel/printk/printk.c:2039 [inline]
RIP: 0010:vprintk_emit+0x45d/0x560 kernel/printk/printk.c:2478
Code: 0f 84 44 ff ff ff e8 d2 52 21 00 fb eb 44 e8 ca 52 21 00 e8 b5 31 03 0a 4d 85 f6 74 94 e8 bb 52 21 00 fb 48 c7 c7 80 bd 94 8e <31> f6 ba 01 00 00 00 31 c9 41 b8 01 00 00 00 45 31 c9 53 e8 ab 1c
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d4be840 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81a4a365 RBX: ffffffff81a4a1df RCX: ffff88806053be00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8e94bd80
RBP: ffffc9000d4be8f0 R08: ffffffff903117f7 R09: 1ffffffff20622fe
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff20622ff R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000004d R14: 0000000000000200 R15: 1ffff92001a97d0c
 _printk+0xdd/0x130 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504
 blk_print_req_error+0x1aa/0x230 block/blk-mq.c:869
 blk_update_request+0xbce/0xe50 block/blk-mq.c:979
 blk_mq_end_request block/blk-mq.c:1147 [inline]
 blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x4fc/0x1990 block/blk-mq.c:2129
 __blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched block/blk-mq-sched.c:168 [inline]
 blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched block/blk-mq-sched.c:182 [inline]
 __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xd36/0x1580 block/blk-mq-sched.c:307
 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xd7/0x190 block/blk-mq-sched.c:329
 blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x348/0x4f0 block/blk-mq.c:2356
 blk_mq_dispatch_list+0xd11/0xe10 include/linux/spinlock.h:-1
 blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x45f/0x540 block/blk-mq.c:2966
 __blk_flush_plug+0x3ed/0x4d0 block/blk-core.c:1273
 blk_finish_plug block/blk-core.c:1300 [inline]
 __submit_bio+0x465/0x560 block/blk-core.c:690
 __submit_bio_noacct_mq block/blk-core.c:763 [inline]
 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x2f4/0xa40 block/blk-core.c:797
 bh_submit fs/buffer.c:1239 [inline]
 block_read_full_folio+0x7a6/0x810 fs/buffer.c:2463
 filemap_read_folio+0x12c/0x3a0 mm/filemap.c:2513
 do_read_cache_folio+0x354/0x590 mm/filemap.c:4118
 read_mapping_folio include/linux/pagemap.h:1017 [inline]
 read_part_sector+0xb6/0x2b0 block/partitions/core.c:724
 adfspart_check_POWERTEC+0x9a/0x7a0 block/partitions/acorn.c:451
 check_partition block/partitions/core.c:143 [inline]
 blk_add_partitions block/partitions/core.c:591 [inline]
 bdev_disk_changed+0x851/0x17a0 block/partitions/core.c:695
 blkdev_get_whole+0x372/0x510 block/bdev.c:751
 bdev_open+0x324/0xd70 block/bdev.c:960
 blkdev_open+0x461/0x600 block/fops.c:672
 do_dentry_open+0x816/0x1380 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1079
 do_open fs/namei.c:4700 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2e44/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4859
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4888
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1395
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1401 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1417 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1412 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1412
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbdb08a7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007fff4bbe81b0 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbdb0f4f880 RCX: 00007fbdb08a7407
RDX: 00000000000a0800 RSI: 00005599dd3f9860 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00005599dd3f1910 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00005599dd41d6e0
R13: 00005599dd3ff190 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00005599dd41d6e0
 </TASK>
net_ratelimit: 34591 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, 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 veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, 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 veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, vlan:0)
net_ratelimit: 35350 callbacks suppressed
bridge0: received packet on veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, 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 veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, 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 veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, 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 veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, 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 veth1_to_bridge with own address as source address (addr:1e:89:86:cc:74:ca, vlan:0)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:1c, vlan:0)

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/20 21:52 net 96e7f9122aae 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: rcu detected stall in blkdev_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.