INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (3)

Status: closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:35
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+722e26bca192a00fe8ee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1932d, last: 1661d
Cause bisection: the issue happens on the oldest tested release (bisect log)
Crash: INFO: rcu detected stall in generic_file_read_iter (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
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[syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (3) 0 (1) 2021/05/17 10:12
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open fs 1 1 2623d 2623d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/10/25 09:11
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (2) 1 1 317d 317d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/21 17:47
linux-4.19 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open 1 1 2510d 2510d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/01/09 20:01
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open 1 9 650d 706d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/23 05:49
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (5) fs lsm 1 3 704d 792d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/19 17:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (6) fuse 1 1 219d 219d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/19 15:35
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (4) ext4 1 1 1553d 1553d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/24 20:08
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open (2) crypto 1 C done done 42 2085d 2435d 15/29 fixed on 2020/12/23 11:40
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in sys_open 1 1 810d 810d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/06 04:14

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 	0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=826/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=9816/9822 fqs=0 
	(t=10500 jiffies g=10153 q=86)
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10500 jiffies! g10153 f0x0 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:29008 pid:   14 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4329 [inline]
 __schedule+0x917/0x2170 kernel/sched/core.c:5079
 schedule+0xcf/0x270 kernel/sched/core.c:5158
 schedule_timeout+0x14a/0x250 kernel/time/timer.c:1878
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop kernel/rcu/tree.c:1983 [inline]
 rcu_gp_kthread+0xd33/0x2300 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2156
 kthread+0x3b1/0x4a0 kernel/kthread.c:292
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 8440 Comm: syz-executor021 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc6-next-20210409-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:__raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock+0xc/0x12
Code: 56 57 41 50 41 51 41 52 41 53 e8 af 15 00 00 41 5b 41 5a 41 59 41 58 5f 5e 5a 59 c3 66 90 52 b8 01 00 00 00 31 d2 f0 0f b0 17 <3c> 01 75 02 5a c3 56 0f b6 f0 e8 c5 ff ff ff 5e 5a c3 66 90 48 b8
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dc0de8 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000046 RCX: ffffffff815a4640
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff8880b9d26380
RBP: ffff8880b9d26380 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8880b9d26383
R10: ffffed10173a4c70 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8880b9d26388
R13: ffff8880b9d26390 R14: ffff8880b9d26380 R15: ffffffff819153e0
FS:  000000000093c3c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffc81d37000 CR3: 0000000014041000 CR4: 00000000001506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 pv_queued_spin_unlock arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:590 [inline]
 queued_spin_unlock arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h:56 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_unlock+0x171/0x230 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:139
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:159 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1e/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:191
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1533 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x51a/0xe50 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1601
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x330/0xa00 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1663
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1089 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x146/0x540 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1106
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1100
 </IRQ>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:632
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode+0x7/0x40 kernel/kcov.c:163
Code: fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 58 d3 44 00 e9 a1 fe ff ff 48 8b 3c 24 e8 4a d3 44 00 e9 18 fe ff ff cc cc cc cc cc 65 8b 05 c9 c7 8d 7e <89> c2 81 e2 00 01 00 00 a9 00 01 ff 00 74 10 31 c0 85 d2 74 15 8b
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000167ea08 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000080000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88802149d580
RDX: fffff94000212ef9 RSI: ffff88802149d580 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: ffffea00010977c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffff81d3faaa R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: fffff94000212ef8 R15: 0000000000000000
 write_comp_data kernel/kcov.c:218 [inline]
 __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp1+0x22/0x80 kernel/kcov.c:270
 compound_nr include/linux/mm.h:981 [inline]
 zero_user_segments+0x37a/0x4c0 include/linux/highmem.h:231
 zero_user include/linux/highmem.h:245 [inline]
 block_read_full_page+0x96f/0xe40 fs/buffer.c:2351
 read_pages+0x5c5/0x8d0 mm/readahead.c:145
 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x5fe/0x920 mm/readahead.c:238
 do_page_cache_ra mm/readahead.c:267 [inline]
 ondemand_readahead+0x61e/0x11a0 mm/readahead.c:550
 page_cache_async_ra mm/readahead.c:607 [inline]
 page_cache_async_ra+0x2e1/0x3f0 mm/readahead.c:582
 page_cache_async_readahead include/linux/pagemap.h:901 [inline]
 filemap_readahead mm/filemap.c:2434 [inline]
 filemap_get_pages+0x60a/0x1920 mm/filemap.c:2475
 filemap_read+0x2ca/0xe40 mm/filemap.c:2542
 generic_file_read_iter+0x397/0x4f0 mm/filemap.c:2693
 __kernel_read+0x58d/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:454
 integrity_kernel_read+0x7b/0xb0 security/integrity/iint.c:199
 ima_calc_file_hash_tfm+0x2aa/0x3b0 security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c:484
 ima_calc_file_shash security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c:515 [inline]
 ima_calc_file_hash+0x19d/0x4b0 security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c:572
 ima_collect_measurement+0x4ca/0x570 security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c:252
 process_measurement+0xd1c/0x17e0 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:330
 ima_file_check+0xb1/0x100 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:499
 do_open fs/namei.c:3363 [inline]
 path_openat+0x15b0/0x27d0 fs/namei.c:3494
 do_filp_open+0x190/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:3521
 do_sys_openat2+0x16d/0x420 fs/open.c:1187
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1203 [inline]
 __do_sys_open fs/open.c:1211 [inline]
 __se_sys_open fs/open.c:1207 [inline]
 __x64_sys_open+0x119/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1207
 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x445d39
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c4 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc81d36578 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc81d365b0 RCX: 0000000000445d39
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000200000c0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000f4240
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffc81d3659c R15: 00007ffc81d365a0
INFO: NMI handler (nmi_cpu_backtrace_handler) took too long to run: 1.861 msecs
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 8434 Comm: syz-executor021 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc6-next-20210409-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x141/0x1d7 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold+0x44/0xd7 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:105
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x1b3/0x230 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:164 [inline]
 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x25e/0x3f0 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:341
 print_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:624 [inline]
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:699 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3889 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq.cold+0x3f1/0x74b kernel/rcu/tree.c:2628
 update_process_times+0x16d/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1782
 tick_sched_handle+0x9b/0x180 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:226
 tick_sched_timer+0x1b0/0x2d0 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1373
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1537 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1c0/0xe50 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1601
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x330/0xa00 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1663
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1089 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x146/0x540 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1106
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1100
 </IRQ>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:632
RIP: 0010:preempt_count_add+0x26/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:4729
Code: 0f 1f 40 00 48 c7 c0 20 97 e8 8f 55 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 c1 53 83 e0 07 89 fb 48 c1 e9 03 83 c0 03 0f b6 14 11 <38> d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 e1 00 00 00 8b 15 88 36 9a 0e 65 01 1d 21
RSP: 0018:ffffc900017464e0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 1ffffffff1fd12e4
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffffffff8e4bf296 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: fffff520002e8cc5 R11: 0000000000084087 R12: ffffc90001746618
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc900017465d0 R15: 0000000000408d40
 unwind_next_frame+0x120/0x1ce0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:428
 arch_stack_walk+0x7d/0xe0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8c/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:121
 kasan_save_stack+0x1b/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:428 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x84/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:461
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:236 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:527 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2924 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2932 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x153/0x390 mm/slub.c:2937
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:678 [inline]
 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x140 fs/buffer.c:3409
 alloc_page_buffers+0x280/0x750 fs/buffer.c:857
 create_empty_buffers+0x2c/0x820 fs/buffer.c:1618
 create_page_buffers+0x2ac/0x3c0 fs/buffer.c:1735
 block_read_full_page+0xc9/0xe40 fs/buffer.c:2326
 read_pages+0x5c5/0x8d0 mm/readahead.c:145
 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x5fe/0x920 mm/readahead.c:238
 do_page_cache_ra mm/readahead.c:267 [inline]
 ondemand_readahead+0x61e/0x11a0 mm/readahead.c:550
 page_cache_async_ra mm/readahead.c:607 [inline]
 page_cache_async_ra+0x2e1/0x3f0 mm/readahead.c:582
 page_cache_async_readahead include/linux/pagemap.h:901 [inline]
 filemap_readahead mm/filemap.c:2434 [inline]
 filemap_get_pages+0x60a/0x1920 mm/filemap.c:2475
 filemap_read+0x2ca/0xe40 mm/filemap.c:2542
 generic_file_read_iter+0x397/0x4f0 mm/filemap.c:2693
 __kernel_read+0x58d/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:454
 integrity_kernel_read+0x7b/0xb0 security/integrity/iint.c:199
 ima_calc_file_hash_tfm+0x2aa/0x3b0 security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c:484
 ima_calc_file_shash security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c:515 [inline]
 ima_calc_file_hash+0x19d/0x4b0 security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c:572
 ima_collect_measurement+0x4ca/0x570 security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c:252
 process_measurement+0xd1c/0x17e0 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:330
 ima_file_check+0xb1/0x100 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:499
 do_open fs/namei.c:3363 [inline]
 path_openat+0x15b0/0x27d0 fs/namei.c:3494
 do_filp_open+0x190/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:3521
 do_sys_openat2+0x16d/0x420 fs/open.c:1187
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1203 [inline]
 __do_sys_open fs/open.c:1211 [inline]
 __se_sys_open fs/open.c:1207 [inline]
 __x64_sys_open+0x119/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1207
 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x445d39
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c4 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc81d36578 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc81d365b0 RCX: 0000000000445d39
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000200000c0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000f4240
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffc81d3659c R15: 00007ffc81d365a0
sched: RT throttling activated

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2021/04/11 16:34 linux-next e99d8a849517 bfeda1b1 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open
2022/01/08 07:25 upstream d1587f7bfe9a 2ca0d385 .config console log report info ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open
2021/11/15 16:34 upstream 8ab774587903 83f5c9b5 .config console log report info ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open
2021/08/13 00:25 upstream f8fbb47c6e86 3fd2ea69 .config console log report info ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_open
2021/09/02 21:31 upstream 4ac6d90867a4 15cea0a3 .config console log report info ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root BUG: soft lockup in sys_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.