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HEAD commit: dc027a595035 Linux 5.15.209
git tree: linux-5.15.y
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https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=17dfc0ae580000
kernel config:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=353ae28c40b35af5
dashboard link:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e29e16a7b686ba319dc4
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8
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rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 0-...!: (1 ticks this GP) idle=4d3/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=17580/17580 fqs=5
(detected by 1, t=10503 jiffies, g=21729, q=149)
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 5211 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:__rcu_read_lock+0x2d/0x50 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:400
Code: 8b 1d 77 ce 9c 7e 48 81 c3 3c 04 00 00 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 0f b6 04 08 84 c0 75 11 ff 03 8b 03 <3d> 00 00 00 40 7d 02 5b c3 0f 0b eb fa 89 d9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006ff0 EFLAGS: 00000002
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff88802a58843c RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: ffffc90000007340 RDI: ffffc90000007180
RBP: ffffc90000007130 R08: ffffc900000071b7 R09: ffffc90000007180
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000000e37 R12: 1ffff92000000e10
R13: ffffc90000007180 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 00007f932a38b880(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2e923ffc CR3: 0000000056903000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:738 [inline]
__perf_output_begin kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:163 [inline]
perf_output_begin_forward+0xa0/0xa40 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:271
__perf_event_output kernel/events/core.c:7804 [inline]
perf_event_output_forward+0x19b/0x2e0 kernel/events/core.c:7822
__perf_event_overflow+0x364/0x530 kernel/events/core.c:9515
perf_tp_event+0x383/0xbf0 kernel/events/core.c:10047
perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xf3/0x1c0 kernel/events/core.c:10021
perf_trace_preemptirq_template+0x2aa/0x360 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:14
trace_irq_enable_rcuidle+0x108/0x180 include/trace/events/preemptirq.h:40
trace_hardirqs_on+0x57/0x80 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c:44
asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:713
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock_special+0x7f/0x4a0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:674
Code: eb 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 4a 89 04 2b 42 c7 44 2b 08 f8 f3 f3 f3 65 44 8b 35 f2 cc 9c 7e 41 f7 c6 00 00 f0 00 74 40 <48> c7 44 24 20 0e 36 e0 45 4a c7 04 2b 00 00 00 00 42 c7 44 2b 08
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007780 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 99d7cbeec5f8d200 RBX: 1ffff92000000ef4 RCX: 99d7cbeec5f8d200
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b3180 RDI: ffffffff8a7a09c0
RBP: ffffc90000007860 R08: ffffffff901d818f R09: 1ffffffff203b031
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203b032 R12: ffffffff8c323800
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000001
__rcu_read_unlock+0x78/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:422
rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:772 [inline]
__ip_queue_xmit+0x1242/0x1c00 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:539
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x1d11/0x3200 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1404
tcp_delack_timer_handler+0x32e/0x730 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:314
tcp_delack_timer+0x188/0x2e0 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:341
call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1648
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1699 [inline]
__run_timers+0x53e/0x800 kernel/time/timer.c:1970
run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1983
handle_softirqs+0x339/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 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:orc_ip arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:30 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__orc_find arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:52 [inline]
RIP: 0010:orc_find arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:178 [inline]
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0x105e/0x1d90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:448
Code: c1 48 c1 f9 02 48 c1 e8 3f 48 01 c8 48 83 e0 fe 4d 8d 74 45 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 0f b6 04 08 <84> c0 75 27 49 63 06 4c 01 f0 49 8d 4e 04 48 39 e8 4c 0f 46 e9 49
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032ff3e8 EFLAGS: 00000a03
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc900032ff4a8 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: ffffffff8dfc3a00 RSI: ffffffff8e99c20c RDI: ffffffff81352e7c
RBP: ffffffff89e000c9 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 000000000000000c
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200065fea1 R12: ffffffff8dfc3a0c
R13: ffffffff8dfc3a00 R14: ffffffff8dfc3a04 R15: ffffffff8dfc3a00
arch_stack_walk+0x10c/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
stack_trace_save+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x5d8/0x610 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:291
tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
tomoyo_path2_perm+0x27e/0x840 security/tomoyo/file.c:922
tomoyo_path_rename+0xfd/0x150 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:278
security_path_rename+0x1dc/0x280 security/security.c:1206
do_renameat2+0x69b/0xf60 fs/namei.c:4980
__do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5039 [inline]
__se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5037 [inline]
__x64_sys_rename+0x82/0x90 fs/namei.c:5037
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: 0033:0x7f932a44ccc7
Code: e8 5e a7 09 00 f7 d8 19 c0 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff 5b c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 b8 52 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 8b 15 01 61 17 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 b8
RSP: 002b:00007ffee03d6058 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055f38ec81bd0 RCX: 00007f932a44ccc7
RDX: 000055f38ec58010 RSI: 00007ffee03d6070 RDI: 00007ffee03d6470
RBP: 000055f38ec7e820 R08: 00000000000001e0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffee03d6070
R13: 00007ffee03d6470 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000055f357aad9dd
</TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 10479 jiffies! g21729 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: Possible timer handling issue on cpu=1 timer-softirq=9002
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10480 jiffies! g21729 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->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:I stack:27696 pid: 15 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
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
</TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 4176 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
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
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]
RIP: 0010:arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kvm_wait+0x159/0x1b0 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:918
Code: 89 df 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 30 84 c0 75 4b 0f b6 1f e8 f7 bb 4a 00 44 38 e3 75 10 66 90 0f 00 2d b9 cc f3 08 fb f4 <e9> 16 ff ff ff fb e9 10 ff ff ff e8 a7 c0 88 08 89 f9 80 e1 07 38
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002e8f8c0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 68d56ca5dd543100 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 68d56ca5dd543100
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b3180 RDI: ffffffff8a7a09c0
RBP: ffffc90002e8f970 R08: ffffffff901d818f R09: 1ffffffff203b031
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203b032 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: ffff8880b913b154 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff920005d1f18
pv_wait arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:597 [inline]
pv_wait_head_or_lock kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h:470 [inline]
__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x60f/0x9c0 kernel/locking/qspinlock.c:508
pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:585 [inline]
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x43/0x50 arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h:51
queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:85 [inline]
do_raw_spin_lock+0x265/0x2f0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:115
spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:369 [inline]
lock_sock_nested+0x68/0x100 net/core/sock.c:3262
lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1744 [inline]
tcp_sendmsg+0x1d/0x40 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1459
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:706 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:718 [inline]
sock_write_iter+0x2a6/0x3a0 net/socket.c:1089
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2173 [inline]
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
vfs_write+0x745/0xd60 fs/read_write.c:594
ksys_write+0x152/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
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: 0033:0x7f98e29cafd7
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 a8 56 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007fff0630a1d0 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005555729f3500 RCX: 00007f98e29cafd7
RDX: 0000000000001670 RSI: 00007f98dfa71990 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000001670
R13: 0000555572a07920 R14: 00007fff0630a770 R15: 00007f98dfa71990
</TASK>
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