Freezes on Fedora 41 Kernel 6.13

After updating to kernel 6.13 I’ve noticed that my system will occasionally freeze. The issue may have also happened on kernel 6.12 but I skipped by it since I thought it might have been a fluke. The screen will stay up but will be unresponsive until I hold down the power button. I’ve collected the dmesg log from the last run and there are multiple messages like the one below from around the time it freezes.

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 27s! [gnome-shell:3063]

A cut version of my dmesg log can be found here Jan 28 21:21:57.359157 hazepad kernel: list_add corruption. next->prev should be - Pastebin.com

My system details

# System Details Report
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## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2025-01-28 21:59:47

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 3
- **Memory:**                                      32.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 6850U with Radeon™ Graphics × 16
- **Graphics:**                                    AMD Radeon™ Graphics
- **Disk Capacity:**                               1.0 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            R22ET74W (1.44 )
- **OS Name:**                                     Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
- **OS Build:**                                    (null)
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               47
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.13.0-361.vanilla.fc41.x86_64

Has anyone run into a similar problem?

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Please note that the 6.13 kernel is still being tested (both vanilla and rawhide).

Anything you install from rawhide is non-standard for fedora 41 so most fedora users will not be able to assist. The same applies to the 6.13.0-361.vanilla.fc41.x86_64 vanilla kernel that you display here. Non-standard kernels are outside the normal support on this forum.

I applaud your efforts but suggest you ask for support from the upstream sources when using non-standard software.

Hey thanks for the response and thanks for pointing that out. I forgot I had enabled the vanilla kernels awhile ago so that I had have access to amd PM fix that stopped my laptop from freezing when recovering from sleep.

I switched back to the normal fedora kernels and I’ll see if the freezing still happens.

Same here with 6.12 kernel on a Thinkpad A485 laptop, AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (8) @ 2.000GHz - ATI Radeon Vega Series

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I downgraded to 6.12.10-200.fc41.x86_64 and I haven’t seen the freeze yet. But I have been on vacation so not using my laptop as much at the moment. Are you using the fedora kernel or the vanilla kernel?

Updated to 6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64 just yesterday. Have to use it for some time to see if freeze still happens.

I’m seeing hard OS freezes when manipulating specific files (for ex. dropping a large image into Firefox) on both 6.13 and recent 6.13.1 using the CachyOS kernel on Silverblue. I was hopeful when the new patch mentioned some possibly related commits but nu u uh :cry:

libfs: Return ENOSPC when the directory offset range is exhausted
Revert "libfs: Add simple_offset_empty()"
Revert "libfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir"
libfs: Replace simple_offset end-of-directory detection
libfs: Use d_children list to iterate simple_offset directories

6.13.2 fixed the freezes for me