On 03-07-2020 21:49, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >> How to avoid? > Can you reproduce this or was this one a time thing? So far one time. > I *think* this happened within the loop in __fget_files(). This function > is inlined by __fget_light() and the loop has a RCU-section so it would > make sense. > Do you run something at an elevated priority in the system? ntpd (ntpsec) elevates itself. > I don't know > what the other part was doing but somehow one of the file descriptors > (network sockets probably) was about to be closed while the other side > tried to poll() on it. Thanks for explaining. Kind regards, Udo