INFO: rcu detected stall in free_work

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/27 20:01
Reported-by: syzbot+e87a5185acccb82d4849@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 341d, last: 341d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in free_work kvm 1 1 2068d 2068d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/03/27 03:09
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in free_work (2) 1 1 107d 107d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/18 19:55
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in free_work 1 1 855d 855d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/07/22 06:27
android-5-15 BUG: soft lockup in free_work (2) 1 1 724d 724d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/29 23:12

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=737/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=11589/11591 fqs=25 
	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=12953, q=316)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 3523 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Workqueue: events free_work
RIP: 0010:preempt_count arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:27 [inline]
RIP: 0010:preempt_count_sub+0x35/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:5536
Code: df 48 c7 c0 80 2f 0c 96 48 c1 e8 03 0f b6 04 18 84 c0 0f 85 bd 00 00 00 83 3d 76 bd ba 14 00 75 25 65 8b 05 b5 fd b0 7e 89 c1 <81> e1 ff ff ff 7f 39 cf 7f 25 81 ff ff 00 00 00 0f 93 c1 84 c0 0f
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dd0c68 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000080010002 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 0000000080010002
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc90000dd0d10 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017225449
R10: ffffed1017225449 R11: 1ffff11017225448 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff1101722546a R14: ffff8880b912a240 R15: 1ffff920001ba190
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f90c24a5000 CR3: 000000007b787000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xaa/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1686 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x441/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1816
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9b/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:bytes_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:85 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:102 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned_n mm/kasan/generic.c:128 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned mm/kasan/generic.c:159 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:180 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x7b/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
Code: 5c 37 ff 48 c1 eb 03 4e 8d 14 3b 4d 89 d6 4d 29 ce 49 83 fe 10 7f 26 4d 85 f6 0f 84 39 01 00 00 48 f7 d3 4c 01 db 41 80 39 00 <0f> 85 c1 01 00 00 49 ff c1 48 ff c3 75 ee e9 1c 01 00 00 44 89 cb
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e3c7688 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: ffffffff8134829d
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000010 RDI: ffffc9000e3c77d8
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffff52001c78efc
R10: fffff52001c78efd R11: 1ffff92001c78efb R12: 1ffffffff1bc90eb
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: dffffc0000000001
 memset+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/shadow.c:44
 unwind_next_frame+0xa3d/0x1d90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:547
 arch_stack_walk+0x10c/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x98/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf3/0x1e0 mm/page_owner.c:119
 __reset_page_owner+0x51/0x180 mm/page_owner.c:140
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x94/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 __vunmap+0x8ab/0xa40 mm/vmalloc.c:2628
 free_work+0x56/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:95
 process_one_work+0x863/0x1000 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10452 jiffies! g12953 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:27848 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11bb/0x4390 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0x15c/0x280 kernel/time/timer.c:1914
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x29e/0x11b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x98/0x350 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 5304 Comm: syz.2.189 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x397/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_single_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:166 [inline]
 rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation+0x1cd/0x250 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:487
 print_other_cpu_stall+0x10c8/0x1220 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:592
 check_cpu_stall kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:745 [inline]
 rcu_pending kernel/rcu/tree.c:3936 [inline]
 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x831/0x1110 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619
 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1818
 tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:254 [inline]
 tick_sched_timer+0x37d/0x560 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1473
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1690 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4fe/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1754
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1816
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1097 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x137/0x4a0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1114
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9b/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:440 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xb88/0xd70 kernel/smp.c:969
Code: b6 44 05 00 84 c0 0f 85 9d 00 00 00 41 8b 1c 24 89 de 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 66 49 0b 00 83 e3 01 75 07 e8 fc 45 0b 00 eb 43 f3 90 <48> b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 0f b6 44 05 00 84 c0 75 11 41 f7
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000348f4e0 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff816c854b RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88807b218000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000348f620 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed1017227681
R10: ffffed1017227681 R11: 1ffff11017227680 R12: ffff8880b91405c8
R13: 1ffff110172280b9 R14: ffff8880b903b3c0 R15: 0000000000000001
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3b/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1135
 __flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:87 [inline]
 flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:946 [inline]
 flush_tlb_mm_range+0x360/0x560 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1034
 tlb_flush arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h:23 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly+0x1b1/0x3f0 include/asm-generic/tlb.h:430
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:246 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xc5/0x2e0 mm/mmu_gather.c:338
 exit_mmap+0x3a6/0x5f0 mm/mmap.c:3218
 __mmput+0x115/0x3b0 kernel/fork.c:1127
 exit_mm+0x567/0x6c0 kernel/exit.c:550
 do_exit+0x5a1/0x20a0 kernel/exit.c:870
 do_group_exit+0x12e/0x300 kernel/exit.c:997
 get_signal+0x6ca/0x12c0 kernel/signal.c:2900
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc1/0x1300 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:867
 handle_signal_work kernel/entry/common.c:154 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x9e/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:178
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f28c3a34ba9
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7f28c3a34b7f.
RSP: 002b:00007f28c1c9c0e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00007f28c3c7bfa8 RCX: 00007f28c3a34ba9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f28c3c7bfa8
RBP: 00007f28c3c7bfa0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f28c3c7c038 R14: 00007ffe8b86e100 R15: 00007ffe8b86e1e8
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/18 20:01 linux-5.15.y 43bb85222e53 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: rcu detected stall in free_work
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.