[syzbot] [mm?] INFO: rcu detected stall in shmem_file_write_iter (3)

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2025-10-22T03:00:32Z

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HEAD commit: f406055cb18c Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.o..
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compiler: Debian clang version 20.1.8 (++20250708063551+0c9f909b7976-1~exp1~20250708183702.136), Debian LLD 20.1.8

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rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P9351/3:b..l P5822/1:b..l P9346/1:b..l
rcu: (detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=30189, q=343 ncpus=2)
task:syz.4.823 state:R running task stack:25608 pid:9346 tgid:9345 ppid:5831 task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080001
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
__schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
preempt_schedule_irq+0xb5/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:7256
irqentry_exit+0x6f/0x90 kernel/entry/common.c:211
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x175/0x360 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 30 f7 44 24 30 00 02 00 00 0f 85 cd 00 00 00 f7 44 24 08 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 65 48 8b 05 fb bc f3 10 <48> 3b 44 24 58 0f 85 f2 00 00 00 48 83 c4 60 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900188bef98 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 8c7b37c73e5bc200 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 8c7b37c73e5bc200
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8d9d1f00 RDI: ffffffff8bc07de0
RBP: ffffffff8173cd25 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8173cd25
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff81ac6cd0 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffff8e13d2e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000246
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+0xc2/0x2390 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:479
arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
save_stack+0xf5/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:156
__set_page_owner+0x8d/0x4a0 mm/page_owner.c:329
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x2365/0x2440 mm/page_alloc.c:3884
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5183
alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
folio_alloc_mpol_noprof+0x39/0x70 mm/mempolicy.c:2435
shmem_alloc_folio mm/shmem.c:1871 [inline]
shmem_alloc_and_add_folio+0x447/0xf60 mm/shmem.c:1910
shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x59d/0x1660 mm/shmem.c:2533
shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2639 [inline]
shmem_write_begin+0xf7/0x2b0 mm/shmem.c:3289
generic_perform_write+0x2c5/0x900 mm/filemap.c:4242
shmem_file_write_iter+0xf8/0x120 mm/shmem.c:3464
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f32a238da7f
RSP: 002b:00007f32a31d6df0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000001000000 RCX: 00007f32a238da7f
RDX: 0000000001000000 RSI: 00007f3298000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000004431
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007f32a31d6ef0 R14: 00007f32a31d6eb0 R15: 00007f3298000000
</TASK>
task:syz-executor state:R running task stack:20904 pid:5822 tgid:5822 ppid:5817 task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080001
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
__schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
preempt_schedule_common+0x83/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7113
preempt_schedule+0xae/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:7137
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+0x3f/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186
spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:391 [inline]
copy_pte_range mm/memory.c:1329 [inline]
copy_pmd_range+0x7630/0x7f00 mm/memory.c:1389
copy_pud_range mm/memory.c:1426 [inline]
copy_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1450 [inline]
copy_page_range+0xc14/0x1270 mm/memory.c:1538
dup_mmap+0xf4c/0x1b10 mm/mmap.c:1834
dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1489 [inline]
copy_mm+0x13c/0x4b0 kernel/fork.c:1541
copy_process+0x1706/0x3c00 kernel/fork.c:2181
kernel_clone+0x21e/0x840 kernel/fork.c:2609
__do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2750 [inline]
__se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2734 [inline]
__x64_sys_clone+0x18b/0x1e0 kernel/fork.c:2734
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f07d7f85713
RSP: 002b:00007ffca17e20f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f07d7f85713
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000555592a5e7d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00000000000927c0 R14: 00000000000495e1 R15: 00007ffca17e2290
</TASK>
task:syz.0.826 state:R running task stack:25624 pid:9351 tgid:9348 ppid:5832 task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080001
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
__schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
preempt_schedule_common+0x83/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7113
preempt_schedule+0xae/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:7137
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+0x3f/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186
spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:391 [inline]
filemap_map_pages+0x1621/0x1c60 mm/filemap.c:3858
do_fault_around mm/memory.c:5656 [inline]
do_read_fault mm/memory.c:5689 [inline]
do_fault mm/memory.c:5832 [inline]
do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4361 [inline]
handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6177 [inline]
__handle_mm_fault+0x347e/0x5400 mm/memory.c:6318
handle_mm_fault+0x40a/0x8e0 mm/memory.c:6487
faultin_page mm/gup.c:1126 [inline]
__get_user_pages+0x165c/0x2a00 mm/gup.c:1428
populate_vma_page_range+0x29f/0x3a0 mm/gup.c:1860
__mm_populate+0x24c/0x380 mm/gup.c:1963
mm_populate include/linux/mm.h:3471 [inline]
vm_mmap_pgoff+0x387/0x4d0 mm/util.c:586
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7faa11f8efc9
RSP: 002b:00007faa12e69038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007faa121e6090 RCX: 00007faa11f8efc9
RDX: b635773f06ebbeee RSI: 0000000000b36000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007faa12011f91 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008031 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007faa121e6128 R14: 00007faa121e6090 R15: 00007ffc1db85d48
</TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10330 jiffies! g30189 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:27288 pid:16 tgid:16 ppid:2 task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
__schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
__schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7011 [inline]
schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7026
schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
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 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: 5e c3 c3 f5 cc cc cc 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 33 b1 1b 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <e9> 33 c3 c3 f5 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197de0 EFLAGS: 000002c6
RAX: 82b01eb804bc8c00 RBX: ffffffff8196bc07 RCX: 82b01eb804bc8c00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d7e8bf1 RDI: ffffffff8bc07de0
RBP: ffffc90000197f10 R08: ffff8880b8732fdb R09: 1ffff110170e65fb
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170e65fc R12: ffffffff8f9e1e70
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 1ffff110038d5b58
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125e0b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f6547b7915e CR3: 00000000306ab000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
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+0x73/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:190 [inline]
do_idle+0x1e7/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:330
cpu_startup_entry+0x44/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:428
start_secondary+0x101/0x110 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:315
common_startup_64+0x13e/0x147
</TASK>

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