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Subject: [syzbot] [net?] INFO: rcu detected stall in neigh_periodic_work (5)
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:02:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6957899b.050a0220.a1b6.0355.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: c875a6c32467 Merge tag 'usb-6.19-rc3' of git://git.kernel...
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1796c12a580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=a11e0f726bfb6765
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6e75ed7b520de921c7a7
compiler: gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=14366bda580000
Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/d6805e78608c/disk-c875a6c3.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/4220ba556100/vmlinux-c875a6c3.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/4061ae28765c/bzImage-c875a6c3.xz
IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+6e75ed7b520de921c7a7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 1-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=05c4/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=16587/16591 fqs=0
rcu: Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P5837/2:b..l
rcu: (detected by 0, t=10512 jiffies, g=9065, q=562 ncpus=2)
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6088 Comm: kworker/1:7 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: events_power_efficient neigh_periodic_work
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x2b/0x330 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5828
Code: 0f 1e fa 41 57 4d 89 cf 41 56 41 89 f6 41 55 41 89 d5 41 54 45 89 c4 55 89 cd 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 38 65 48 8b 05 7d b4 18 12 <48> 89 44 24 30 31 c0 66 90 65 8b 05 99 b4 18 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 a2
RSP: 0000:ffffc90000a08d18 EFLAGS: 00000096
RAX: 0ff401f7067e1f00 RBX: ffffffff8e3c96a0 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8e3c96a0
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff8880765032ab R11: ffff888031870b30 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881249f5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffdeb874218 CR3: 0000000022f14000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
advance_sched+0x699/0xc80 net/sched/sch_taprio.c:991
__run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1777 [inline]
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x202/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1841
hrtimer_interrupt+0x397/0x8e0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1903
local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1045 [inline]
__sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x10b/0x3c0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9f/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lockdep_enabled kernel/locking/lockdep.c:124 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5844 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x127/0x330 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
Code: 0d 12 e9 ee 0e 85 c9 0f 84 b1 00 00 00 65 8b 05 d7 fa 18 12 85 c0 0f 85 a2 00 00 00 65 48 8b 05 97 b3 18 12 8b 90 2c 0b 00 00 <85> d2 0f 85 8c 00 00 00 9c 8f 04 24 fa 48 c7 c7 2a e5 bb 8d e8 d0
RSP: 0000:ffffc90003117430 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffff888031870000 RBX: ffffffff8e3c96a0 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff816cb681 RDI: fffffbfff1c792d4
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90003117568 R11: 0000000000002ba1 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
__unwind_start+0x45f/0x7f0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:773
unwind_start arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h:64 [inline]
arch_stack_walk+0x73/0x100 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:24
stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:339 [inline]
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:365
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x298/0x800 mm/slub.c:5315
kmalloc_reserve+0x18b/0x2c0 net/core/skbuff.c:586
__alloc_skb+0x186/0x410 net/core/skbuff.c:690
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:1055 [inline]
__neigh_notify+0xe6/0x380 net/core/neighbour.c:3544
neigh_cleanup_and_release+0x97/0x280 net/core/neighbour.c:120
neigh_periodic_work+0x6b6/0xc10 net/core/neighbour.c:1030
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:syz-executor state:R running task stack:22872 pid:5837 tgid:5837 ppid:5832 task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00080002
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
spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:406 [inline]
unlock_task_sighand include/linux/sched/signal.h:756 [inline]
do_send_sig_info kernel/signal.c:1270 [inline]
group_send_sig_info+0x2d5/0x300 kernel/signal.c:1419
kill_pid_info_type+0x92/0x2a0 kernel/signal.c:1459
kill_pid_info kernel/signal.c:1473 [inline]
kill_proc_info+0x6f/0x1b0 kernel/signal.c:1480
kill_something_info+0x2a2/0x310 kernel/signal.c:1577
__do_sys_kill kernel/signal.c:3953 [inline]
__se_sys_kill kernel/signal.c:3947 [inline]
__x64_sys_kill+0xd7/0x140 kernel/signal.c:3947
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: 0033:0x7fdcb212ba37
RSP: 002b:00007ffcb7ad7048 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000003e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcb7ad7590 RCX: 00007fdcb212ba37
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 0000000000001736
RBP: 000055556c55c660 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 00007fdcb2fe8000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffcb7ad705c
R13: 000055556c558290 R14: 000055556c55c618 R15: 00007ffcb7ad70f0
</TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10512 jiffies! g9065 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:27720 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:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5944 Comm: syz-executor 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: c6 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 49 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:ffffc90000007598 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: ffff888031370000 RSI: ffffffff816bdc71 RDI: ffffffff8bf2b400
RBP: ffffffff90333c20 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffffffff9088b4d7 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: ffff8880b843bbc0 R15: fffffbfff2066784
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881248f5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fdcb2fe7ff8 CR3: 000000000e184000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
kvm_wait arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:1085 [inline]
kvm_wait+0x186/0x1f0 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:1067
pv_wait arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:569 [inline]
pv_wait_head_or_lock kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h:466 [inline]
__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x4e1/0xcf0 kernel/locking/qspinlock.c:325
pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:557 [inline]
queued_spin_lock_slowpath arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h:51 [inline]
queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:114 [inline]
do_raw_spin_lock+0x20e/0x2b0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:116
spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline]
___neigh_create+0x9eb/0x2920 net/core/neighbour.c:690
ip6_finish_output2+0x11aa/0x1cf0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:128
__ip6_finish_output+0x3cd/0x1010 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:209
ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:220 [inline]
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
ip6_output+0x253/0x710 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
dst_output include/net/dst.h:464 [inline]
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
ndisc_send_skb+0xa85/0x1f50 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:512
ndisc_send_rs+0x129/0x670 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:722
addrconf_rs_timer+0x40d/0x870 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4037
call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x5a0 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
__run_timers+0x74a/0xae0 kernel/time/timer.c:2373
__run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2385 [inline]
__run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2377 [inline]
run_timer_base+0x114/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2394
run_timer_softirq+0x1a/0x40 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
handle_softirqs+0x219/0x950 kernel/softirq.c:622
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x109/0x170 kernel/softirq.c:723
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:342 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xe02/0x15e0 kernel/smp.c:877
Code: 10 4c 89 74 24 10 49 89 d5 48 89 d5 48 89 54 24 18 49 c1 ed 03 83 e5 07 4d 01 e5 83 c5 03 e8 35 5b 0c 00 f3 90 41 0f b6 45 00 <40> 38 c5 7c 08 84 c0 0f 85 b6 05 00 00 8b 43 08 31 ff 83 e0 01 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000434f6d0 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880b8540cc0 RCX: ffffffff81b28bb1
RDX: ffff888031370000 RSI: ffffffff81b28b8b RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff888031370b30 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffffed10170a8199 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x40/0x90 kernel/smp.c:1043
__flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:91 [inline]
flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1382 [inline]
flush_tlb_mm_range+0x2f0/0x12c0 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1472
tlb_flush arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h:23 [inline]
tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly include/asm-generic/tlb.h:490 [inline]
tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly include/asm-generic/tlb.h:480 [inline]
tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:403 [inline]
tlb_finish_mmu+0x3c9/0x7c0 mm/mmu_gather.c:497
exit_mmap+0x3f9/0xb60 mm/mmap.c:1290
__mmput+0x12a/0x410 kernel/fork.c:1173
mmput+0x62/0x70 kernel/fork.c:1196
exit_mm kernel/exit.c:581 [inline]
do_exit+0x7d7/0x2bd0 kernel/exit.c:959
do_group_exit+0xd3/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1112
get_signal+0x2671/0x26d0 kernel/signal.c:3034
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x8f/0x7e0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
__exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:41 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8c/0x540 kernel/entry/common.c:75
__exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4ee/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fb3707c2005
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7fb3707c1fdb.
RSP: 002b:00007ffdeb8742b0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e6
RAX: fffffffffffffdfc RBX: 0000000000000020 RCX: 00007fb3707c2005
RDX: 00007ffdeb8742f0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007ffdeb87435c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fb37166a000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 000000000000000e
R13: 00000000000927c0 R14: 000000000004575f R15: 00007ffdeb8743b0
</TASK>
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