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INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2023/12/30 04:30
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+0a0f74ced3c329bb0c35@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 565d, last: 27d
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2024/05/15 linux-6.1.y (ToT) 909ba1f1b414 C [report] INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/05/15 upstream (ToT) 1b294a1f3561 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr fs 1 53 2375d 2638d 0/29 closed as dup on 2018/09/08 15:33
android-49 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr 1 26 2472d 2615d 0/3 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/04/08 13:33
android-414 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr 1 1 2409d 2286d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/06/09 16:55
upstream INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr (5) ext4 1 C done 48 880d 1251d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr origin:upstream 1 C done 1500 6d03h 860d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/03/09 17:32
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr ext4 1 4 875d 1022d 0/1 upstream: reported on 2022/09/28 21:19
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr 1 1 699d 699d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/26 06:37
upstream INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr (6) bcachefs 1 C done 4013 4d23h 761d 1/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/06/17 00:33
upstream INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr (4) ext4 1 4 1259d 1313d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 10:10
upstream INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr (3) ext4 1 2 1525d 1623d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/08/11 17:49
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr (2) 1 2 990d 992d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/02/27 15:30
upstream INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr (2) ext4 1 1 1807d 1807d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/11/03 06:13
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr 1 1 1873d 1873d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/27 19:31
Fix bisection attempts (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2024/10/14 22:00 0m bisect fix linux-6.1.y error job log
2024/08/19 07:33 1h53m bisect fix linux-6.1.y OK (0) job log log
2024/07/07 09:22 1h04m bisect fix linux-6.1.y OK (0) job log log
2024/05/28 16:14 1h29m fix candidate upstream OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz-executor409:4272 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted 6.1.141-syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor409 state:D stack:24352 pid:4272  ppid:4271   flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
 __schedule+0x10e9/0x40d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6561
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6637
 wb_wait_for_completion+0x162/0x280 fs/fs-writeback.c:191
 __writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x1f3/0x240 fs/fs-writeback.c:2653
 sync_filesystem+0x9f/0x220 fs/sync.c:54
 generic_shutdown_super+0x6b/0x340 fs/super.c:474
 kill_block_super+0x7c/0xe0 fs/super.c:1470
 deactivate_locked_super+0x93/0xf0 fs/super.c:332
 cleanup_mnt+0x463/0x4f0 fs/namespace.c:1182
 task_work_run+0x1ca/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:203
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xb1/0x140 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:292 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:303
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fc0fa02e487
RSP: 002b:00007ffe0749c738 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000001ff50 RCX: 00007fc0fa02e487
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 00007ffe0749c7f0
RBP: 00007ffe0749c7f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffe0749d860
R13: 00005555606ab6c0 R14: 431bde82d7b634db R15: 00007ffe0749d880
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by rcu_tasks_kthre/12:
 #0: ffffffff8c92b430 (rcu_tasks.tasks_gp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rcu_tasks_one_gp+0x33/0xf00 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:517
1 lock held by rcu_tasks_trace/13:
 #0: ffffffff8c92bc50 (rcu_tasks_trace.tasks_gp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rcu_tasks_one_gp+0x33/0xf00 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:517
1 lock held by khungtaskd/28:
 #0: ffffffff8c92aaa0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c92aaa0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c92aaa0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x51/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6513
2 locks held by kworker/u4:4/69:
2 locks held by getty/4016:
 #0: ffff88803086f098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:244
 #1: ffffc9000326b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x41b/0x1380 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2198
1 lock held by syz-executor409/4272:
 #0: ffff88801ff380e0 (&type->s_umount_key#42){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: deactivate_super+0xa0/0xd0 fs/super.c:362

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 28 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted 6.1.141-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x22e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3f4/0x470 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x1d4/0x450 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:148 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:220 [inline]
 watchdog+0xeee/0xf30 kernel/hung_task.c:377
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 69 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted 6.1.141-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
RIP: 0010:get_current arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:15 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lockdep_enabled kernel/locking/lockdep.c:122 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_is_held_type+0x3d/0x190 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5698
Code: 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 08 bd ff ff ff ff 83 3d bc 26 ef 03 00 0f 84 03 01 00 00 65 8b 05 cb e5 f2 75 85 c0 0f 85 f4 00 00 00 <65> 48 8b 1d 7b db f2 75 83 bb dc 0a 00 00 00 0f 85 df 00 00 00 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc900015a71e0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea0001ce1dc0 RCX: 9b74345e5d3a5f00
RDX: ffff8880187a0000 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffffffff8c92aaa0
RBP: 00000000ffffffff R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffff9400039c3bf
R10: fffff9400039c3bf R11: 1ffffd400039c3be R12: ffff88801790bf18
R13: 1ffff920002b4e58 R14: ffff888017834b00 R15: ffffc900015a72c0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055dddfb8c168 CR3: 000000007ee57000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 xa_entry include/linux/xarray.h:1198 [inline]
 xas_reload+0x19c/0x470 include/linux/xarray.h:1583
 mapping_get_entry mm/filemap.c:1894 [inline]
 __filemap_get_folio+0x2a4/0xdd0 mm/filemap.c:1943
 pagecache_get_page+0x26/0x250 mm/folio-compat.c:110
 find_or_create_page include/linux/pagemap.h:646 [inline]
 grow_dev_page fs/buffer.c:946 [inline]
 grow_buffers fs/buffer.c:1011 [inline]
 __getblk_slow fs/buffer.c:1038 [inline]
 __getblk_gfp+0x2d8/0xb20 fs/buffer.c:1333
 udf_update_inode+0xf1/0x2ac0 fs/udf/inode.c:1588
 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1460 [inline]
 __writeback_single_inode+0x75b/0x1160 fs/fs-writeback.c:1677
 writeback_sb_inodes+0xad8/0x17d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1903
 wb_writeback+0x468/0xd00 fs/fs-writeback.c:2077
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2220 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0x435/0xec0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2260
 process_one_work+0x898/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
INFO: NMI handler (nmi_cpu_backtrace_handler) took too long to run: 1.286 msecs

Crashes (32):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/06/19 22:39 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f ed3e87f7 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/01/12 19:45 linux-6.1.y c63962be84ef 6dbc6a9b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/01/12 13:41 linux-6.1.y c63962be84ef 6dbc6a9b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/01/11 23:50 linux-6.1.y c63962be84ef 6dbc6a9b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/01/11 16:16 linux-6.1.y c63962be84ef 6dbc6a9b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/05/15 04:59 linux-6.1.y 909ba1f1b414 fdb4c10c .config console log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/06/11 17:10 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f 98683f8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/04/24 00:01 linux-6.1.y 420102835862 73a168d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/03/25 23:22 linux-6.1.y 344a09659766 875573af .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/03/09 19:12 linux-6.1.y 6ae7ac5c4251 163f510d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/03/03 11:41 linux-6.1.y 3a8358583626 c3901742 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/02/28 12:55 linux-6.1.y 3a8358583626 6a8fcbc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/02/22 12:19 linux-6.1.y 3a8358583626 d34966d1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/02/05 06:11 linux-6.1.y 0cbb5f65e52f 5896748e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/12/30 16:59 linux-6.1.y 563edd786f0a d3ccff63 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/12/27 21:53 linux-6.1.y 563edd786f0a d3ccff63 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/12/07 05:02 linux-6.1.y e4d90d63d385 9ac0fdc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/12/05 17:34 linux-6.1.y e4d90d63d385 29f61fce .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/12/02 22:19 linux-6.1.y e4d90d63d385 b499ea68 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/11/29 13:03 linux-6.1.y e4d90d63d385 5df23865 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/11/29 05:05 linux-6.1.y e4d90d63d385 5df23865 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/11/29 04:08 linux-6.1.y e4d90d63d385 5df23865 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/10/23 01:41 linux-6.1.y 7ec6f9fa3d97 15fa2979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/08/28 11:38 linux-6.1.y ee5e09825b81 6c853ff9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/04/16 12:05 linux-6.1.y cd5d98c0556c 0d592ce4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/04/07 11:17 linux-6.1.y 347385861c50 ca620dd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/03/10 00:10 linux-6.1.y 61adba85cc40 6ee49f2e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2023/12/30 04:29 linux-6.1.y 4aa6747d9352 fb427a07 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-perf INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/03/27 00:42 linux-6.1.y 344a09659766 20510e88 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/01/29 08:54 linux-6.1.y 75cefdf153f5 865ef71e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2025/01/07 06:00 linux-6.1.y 7dc732d24ff7 f3558dbf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
2024/04/29 11:10 linux-6.1.y f2295faba5e8 27e33c58 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 INFO: task hung in __writeback_inodes_sb_nr
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.