INFO: task hung in vt_resizex

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/14 19:24
Reported-by: syzbot+04865cd1ec869f332a51@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 15d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in vt_resizex serial 1 1 813d 813d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/07 12:15

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.9.13357:13309 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.9.13357     state:D stack:27912 pid:13309 ppid:11616  flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6775
 schedule_timeout+0xc1/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2144
 ___down_common kernel/locking/semaphore.c:229 [inline]
 __down_common+0x30e/0x650 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:250
 down+0x80/0xd0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:64
 console_lock+0x145/0x1b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2686
 vt_resizex+0x2a3/0x5a0 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:706
 vt_ioctl+0x1254/0x1f00 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:939
 tty_ioctl+0x91e/0xdc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2779
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fbc85f9e0d9
RSP: 002b:00007fbc86e12028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbc86225fa0 RCX: 00007fbc85f9e0d9
RDX: 0000200000000000 RSI: 000000000000560a RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fbc86035024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fbc86226038 R14: 00007fbc86225fa0 R15: 00007fff93cc7828
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/28:
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x55/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6633
3 locks held by kworker/u4:5/79:
1 lock held by dhcpcd/5440:
2 locks held by getty/5534:
 #0: ffff8880317120a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc9000327b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x428/0x1370 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2217
2 locks held by syz.0.13304/13046:
2 locks held by syz.5.13583/14475:
 #0: ffffffff8d8b6de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d8b6de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
 #1: ffff888053bc71c0 (&tty->legacy_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_init_dev+0x74/0x4c0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1413
1 lock held by syz.9.13608/14584:
 #0: ffffffff8d8b6de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.0.13638/14770:
 #0: ffffffff8d8b6de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d8b6de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
1 lock held by syz.3.13666/15075:
 #0: ffffffff8d8b6de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.8.13673/15125:
 #0: ffffffff8d8b6de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d8b6de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 28 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a6/0x3e0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x2f0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:160 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:222 [inline]
 watchdog+0xf59/0xfa0 kernel/hung_task.c:379
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/14 19:24 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 6f9b3e89 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in vt_resizex
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.