rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: rcu: Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5174/1:b..l P9/1:b..l rcu: (detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=8045, q=254 ncpus=2) task:kworker/0:0 state:R running task stack:27080 pid:9 tgid:9 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000 Workqueue: events_power_efficient gc_worker Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline] __schedule+0x1139/0x6150 kernel/sched/core.c:6863 preempt_schedule_irq+0x51/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7190 irqentry_exit+0x1d8/0x8c0 kernel/entry/common.c:216 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697 RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x62/0x330 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872 Code: b4 18 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 a2 02 00 00 89 c0 48 0f a3 05 22 bd ee 0e 0f 82 74 02 00 00 8b 35 ba ed ee 0e 85 f6 0f 85 8d 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 39 b4 18 12 0f 85 ad 02 00 00 48 83 c4 RSP: 0018:ffffc900000e7a60 EFLAGS: 00000206 RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: ffffffff8e3c96a0 RCX: 00000000bbe7faef RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8daa80f3 RDI: ffffffff8bf2b380 RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 00000000c203dff9 R09: 000000009c203dff R10: 0000000000000002 R11: ffff88801d6a54b0 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline] rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline] gc_worker+0x241/0x16e0 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1546 process_one_work+0x9ba/0x1b20 kernel/workqueue.c:3257 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline] worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3421 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x983/0xb10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 task:klogd state:R running task stack:25800 pid:5174 tgid:5174 ppid:1 task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00080000 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline] __schedule+0x1139/0x6150 kernel/sched/core.c:6863 preempt_schedule_common+0x44/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:7047 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x30 arch/x86/entry/thunk.S:12 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x61/0x80 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194 sock_def_readable+0x15b/0x5d0 net/core/sock.c:3611 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0xcbd/0x1830 net/unix/af_unix.c:2286 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline] __sys_sendto+0x4a3/0x520 net/socket.c:2206 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2213 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2209 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2209 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f3be1841407 RSP: 002b:00007ffced9f5d50 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3be16f1c80 RCX: 00007f3be1841407 RDX: 000000000000007b RSI: 00007ffced9f5e90 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffced9f62c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000004000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffced9f62d8 R13: 00007ffced9f5e90 R14: 0000000000000060 R15: 00007ffced9f5e90 rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10542 jiffies! g8045 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:28440 pid:16 tgid:16 ppid:2 task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline] __schedule+0x1139/0x6150 kernel/sched/core.c:6863 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline] schedule+0xe7/0x3a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6960 schedule_timeout+0x123/0x290 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1ea/0xaf0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083 rcu_gp_kthread+0x26d/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x983/0xb10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246 rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran: Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1: NMI backtrace for cpu 1 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025 RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82 Code: b6 5f 02 c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 13 39 12 00 fb f4 cc 35 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197de8 EFLAGS: 000002c6 RAX: 00000000000dff63 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff8b7826d9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8dace187 RDI: ffffffff8bf2b380 RBP: ffffed1003b56498 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10170a673d R10: ffff8880b85339eb R11: ffff88801dab2ff0 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: ffff88801dab24c0 R14: ffffffff9088b8d0 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881249f5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000110c338c93 CR3: 0000000056aae000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 Call Trace: arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline] default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline] do_idle+0x38d/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:332 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430 start_secondary+0x21d/0x2d0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148