rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: rcu: Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6428/1:b..l (detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=22401, q=166) task:syz-executor state:R running task stack:21968 pid: 6428 ppid: 6418 flags:0x00004002 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline] __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6571 preempt_schedule+0xbc/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6596 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:34 vprintk_emit+0x149/0x150 kernel/printk/printk.c:2275 _printk+0xda/0x130 kernel/printk/printk.c:2299 batadv_check_known_mac_addr+0x27e/0x3b0 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:524 batadv_hard_if_event+0x4a0/0x17e0 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:986 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline] raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2074 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2088 [inline] dev_set_mac_address+0x2e8/0x400 net/core/dev.c:9140 dev_set_mac_address_user+0x2d/0x50 net/core/dev.c:9154 do_setlink+0x8b0/0x3d60 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2736 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3452 [inline] rtnl_newlink+0x1658/0x1a50 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3574 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x844/0xf30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5684 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1f5/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2507 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x774/0x920 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ba/0xbe0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1918 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:706 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:718 [inline] __sys_sendto+0x46d/0x620 net/socket.c:2072 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2084 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2080 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2080 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0 RIP: 0033:0x7facfaa8e04e RSP: 002b:00007fffb7e91458 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055555e900500 RCX: 00007facfaa8e04e RDX: 000000000000002c RSI: 00007facfb875670 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 00007fffb7e914d4 R09: 000000000000000c R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007facfb875670 R15: 0000000000000000 rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10524 jiffies! g22401 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:27728 pid: 15 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline] __schedule+0x11ef/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478 schedule_timeout+0x184/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2117 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x2be/0x11d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1972 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9b/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2145 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287 rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran: NMI backtrace for cpu 0 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 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+0x1110/0x1270 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+0x843/0x1120 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2619 update_process_times+0x193/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:2021 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:1685 [inline] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x4b4/0xb70 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749 hrtimer_interrupt+0x3bb/0x8d0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811 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 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676 RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:730 Code: b7 48 89 df e8 66 73 f8 f7 eb ad e8 4f af f6 ff 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc 66 90 0f 00 2d 77 16 60 00 fb f4 0f 1f 40 00 41 57 41 56 53 49 be 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 65 48 RSP: 0018:ffffffff8c007dc8 EFLAGS: 000002c6 RAX: 66a6f56b177d2000 RBX: ffffffff8c0bc480 RCX: 66a6f56b177d2000 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2780 RDI: ffffffff8a79f980 RBP: ffffffff8c007ef8 R08: ffff8880b903b30b R09: 1ffff11017207661 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017207662 R12: 1ffffffff1817890 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffffffff1800fc4 default_idle_call+0x81/0xc0 kernel/sched/idle.c:112 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:194 [inline] do_idle+0x21f/0x580 kernel/sched/idle.c:306 cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:403 start_kernel+0x489/0x540 init/main.c:1154 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb1/0xbb