syzbot
INFO: task hung in tty_open
Status:
upstream: reported on 2026/07/31 15:41
Reported-by: syzbot+0d02b4d8ca27fa6fab68@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 60d, last: 17d
Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.5.1265:12028 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.5.1265 state:D stack:27912 pid:12028 ppid:11443 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_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x20 kernel/sched/core.c:6834
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:679 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x673/0xc80 kernel/locking/mutex.c:747
tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
chrdev_open+0x58c/0x600 fs/char_dev.c:414
do_dentry_open+0x880/0x14b0 fs/open.c:929
do_open fs/namei.c:3683 [inline]
path_openat+0x284f/0x3270 fs/namei.c:3844
do_filp_open+0x1f2/0x430 fs/namei.c:3871
do_sys_openat2+0x134/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1422
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1437 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1453 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1448 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1448
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: 0033:0x7f4d7475e98e
RSP: 002b:00007f4d756e4b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4d756e56c0 RCX: 00007f4d7475e98e
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f4d756e4c00 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f4d7483503b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f4d74a26038 R14: 00007f4d74a25fa0 R15: 00007ffc476e0328
</TASK>
INFO: task syz.4.1274:12061 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.4.1274 state:D stack:27912 pid:12061 ppid:11377 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_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x20 kernel/sched/core.c:6834
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:679 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x673/0xc80 kernel/locking/mutex.c:747
tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
chrdev_open+0x58c/0x600 fs/char_dev.c:414
do_dentry_open+0x880/0x14b0 fs/open.c:929
do_open fs/namei.c:3683 [inline]
path_openat+0x284f/0x3270 fs/namei.c:3844
do_filp_open+0x1f2/0x430 fs/namei.c:3871
do_sys_openat2+0x134/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1422
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1437 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1453 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1448 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1448
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: 0033:0x7f6a0075e98e
RSP: 002b:00007f6a01730b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6a017316c0 RCX: 00007f6a0075e98e
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f6a01730c00 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f6a0083503b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6a00a26038 R14: 00007f6a00a25fa0 R15: 00007ffd44659b68
</TASK>
Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/28:
#0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x55/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6633
2 locks held by kworker/0:3/972:
1 lock held by udevd/5144:
2 locks held by getty/5540:
#0: ffff88802d0b60a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
#1: ffffc900032832f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x428/0x1370 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2217
2 locks held by syz.9.596/8754:
4 locks held by syz.8.1250/11963:
1 lock held by syz.5.1265/12028:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7388 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d8b7388 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
1 lock held by syz.4.1274/12061:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7388 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d8b7388 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
4 locks held by syz-executor/12301:
1 lock held by syz.3.1323/12475:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7388 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d8b7388 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
1 lock held by syz.7.1349/12589:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7388 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.1.1663/13699:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7388 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
4 locks held by syz-executor/14044:
=============================================
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>
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.