linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in purge_vmap

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Message-ID: <6964b365.050a0220.eaf7.008f.GAE@google.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:40:05 -0800
From: syzbot <syzbot+d8d4c31d40f868eaea30@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
To: kartikey406@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in purge_vmap_node

Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
INFO: rcu detected stall in unwind_next_frame

rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P6892/1:b..l P6893/3:b..l P6746/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=16737, q=586 ncpus=2)
task:kworker/u8:18   state:R  running task     stack:24088 pid:6746  tgid:6746  ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000
Workqueue: kvfree_rcu_reclaim kfree_rcu_monitor
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 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 e2 c1 ee 0e 0f 82 74 02 00 00 8b 35 7a f2 ee 0e 85 f6 0f 85 8d 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 f9 b3 18 12 0f 85 ad 02 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003fbf5b8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: ffffffff8e3c96a0 RCX: 00000000993b8195
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8daa8a1d RDI: ffffffff8bf2b400
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 00000000e61a05bb R09: 00000000be61a05b
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: ffff888029058b30 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]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xd1/0x20b0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0x100 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:2569 [inline]
 slab_free_bulk mm/slub.c:6703 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free_bulk mm/slub.c:7390 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free_bulk+0x2bf/0x680 mm/slub.c:7369
 kfree_bulk include/linux/slab.h:830 [inline]
 kvfree_rcu_bulk+0x1b7/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:1523
 kvfree_rcu_drain_ready mm/slab_common.c:1728 [inline]
 kfree_rcu_monitor+0x1d0/0x2f0 mm/slab_common.c:1801
 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>
task:sed             state:R  running task     stack:25800 pid:6893  tgid:6893  ppid:6890   task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 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 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock+0x3e/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186
 spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:391 [inline]
 filemap_map_pages+0x1194/0x1e00 mm/filemap.c:3931
 do_fault_around mm/memory.c:5713 [inline]
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:5746 [inline]
 do_fault+0x9cd/0x1ad0 mm/memory.c:5889
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4401 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6273 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault+0x1919/0x2bb0 mm/memory.c:6411
 handle_mm_fault+0x3fe/0xad0 mm/memory.c:6580
 do_user_addr_fault+0x60c/0x1370 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1336
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1476 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x64/0xc0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1532
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
RIP: 0033:0x7fc6d7657c50
RSP: 002b:00007ffe6008c528 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007fc6d768e490 RCX: 00007ffe6008c560
RDX: 00007fc6d7689d63 RSI: 00007fc6d7689d36 RDI: 00007ffe6008c748
RBP: 0000000000000041 R08: 00007ffe6008c550 R09: 00007ffe6008c558
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffe6008c748
R13: 00007ffe6008c550 R14: 00007fc6d76ce000 R15: 00005602504c1d98
 </TASK>
task:udevd           state:R  running task     stack:28152 pid:6892  tgid:6892  ppid:5186   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 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]
 sock_write_iter+0x566/0x610 net/socket.c:1195
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x7d3/0x11d0 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0x1f8/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
 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: 0033:0x7f6502bdf407
RSP: 002b:00007ffc4b535850 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6502b53880 RCX: 00007f6502bdf407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffc4b5358f7 RDI: 000000000000000a
RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007f6502b536e8
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000055685a0a1150
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10572 jiffies! g16737 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:28120 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 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
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 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: a6 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 19 12 00 fb f4 <e9> cc 35 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8e007df8 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 0000000000186859 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8b7846d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8daceab2 RDI: ffffffff8bf2b400
RBP: fffffbfff1c12f68 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed101708673d
R10: ffff8880b84339eb R11: ffffffff8e098670 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffff8e097b40 R14: ffffffff9088bdd0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881248f5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055555eaef588 CR3: 00000000522b3000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 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
 rest_init+0x16b/0x2b0 init/main.c:757
 start_kernel+0x3ef/0x4d0 init/main.c:1206
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:310
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x130/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:291
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148
 </TASK>


Tested on:

commit:         0f61b186 Linux 6.19-rc5
git tree:       upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1397199a580000
kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=1859476832863c41
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d8d4c31d40f868eaea30
compiler:       gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
patch:          https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=1704399a580000