rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: rcu: Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P10/1:b..l rcu: (detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=100509, q=553 ncpus=2) task:kworker/0:1 state:R running task stack:22344 pid:10 tgid:10 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00004000 Workqueue: events_power_efficient gc_worker Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5357 [inline] __schedule+0x1190/0x5de0 kernel/sched/core.c:6961 preempt_schedule_irq+0x51/0x90 kernel/sched/core.c:7288 irqentry_exit+0x36/0x90 kernel/entry/common.c:197 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702 RIP: 0010:__sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp1+0x8/0x20 kernel/kcov.c:300 Code: bf 06 00 00 00 e9 b8 fe ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8b 0c 24 <40> 0f b6 d6 40 0f b6 f7 bf 01 00 00 00 e9 86 fe ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 RSP: 0018:ffffc900000f7b50 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff89ba06d3 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffffff9b2c416c R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888149200000 R13: 0000000000040000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 00000000000018fa rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:842 [inline] gc_worker+0xe43/0x16e0 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1546 process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3236 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline] worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x5d7/0x6f0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 9625 jiffies! g100509 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:27784 pid:16 tgid:16 ppid:2 task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5357 [inline] __schedule+0x1190/0x5de0 kernel/sched/core.c:6961 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7043 [inline] schedule+0xe7/0x3a0 kernel/sched/core.c:7058 schedule_timeout+0x123/0x290 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x1ea/0xb00 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083 rcu_gp_kthread+0x270/0x380 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x5d7/0x6f0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 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 6.17.0-rc1-syzkaller-00116-gd7ee5bdce789 #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025 RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82 Code: 8c 62 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 d3 a2 16 00 fb f4 4c 0d 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197df8 EFLAGS: 000002c2 RAX: 0000000005678fd3 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff8b936c29 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8de4f2bd RDI: ffffffff8c162580 RBP: ffffed1003c56488 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10170a6655 R10: ffff8880b85332ab R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: ffff88801e2b2440 R14: ffffffff90ab3890 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881247bc000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f7bf8ed5579 CR3: 00000000820e4000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 000000000000508c DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline] default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:757 default_idle_call+0x6d/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:190 [inline] do_idle+0x391/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:330 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:428 start_secondary+0x21d/0x2b0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:315 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148