INFO: task hung in con_set_unimap

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/08 00:06
Reported-by: syzbot+3353ab0927f86a88bc4d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 13d, last: 13d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: task hung in con_set_unimap 1 1 52d 52d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/31 02:22

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.1.2043:13723 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.1.2043      state:D stack:27888 pid:13723 ppid: 13217 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4350 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0xbd/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2093
 __down_common+0x289/0x3b0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:228
 down+0x7e/0xd0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:63
 console_lock+0x29/0x70 kernel/printk/printk.c:2557
 con_set_unimap+0x73/0xd20 drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c:558
 do_unimap_ioctl drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:502 [inline]
 vt_io_ioctl drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:548 [inline]
 vt_ioctl+0xb77/0x1ca0 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:758
 tty_ioctl+0x848/0xc30 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2810
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f056da65159
RSP: 002b:00007f056bcbd028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f056dcecfa0 RCX: 00007f056da65159
RDX: 00002000000001c0 RSI: 0000000000004b67 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f056dafc024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f056dced038 R14: 00007f056dcecfa0 R15: 00007ffc4c204bf8
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/27:
 #0: ffffffff8c31ef60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x0/0x30
2 locks held by getty/3943:
 #0: ffff88814d621098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:252
 #1: ffffc900025e62e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x594/0x1a50 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2158
3 locks held by kworker/0:7/4260:
 #0: ffff888016c70938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x75c/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
 #1: ffffc9000326fd00 ((work_completion)(&data->fib_event_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x79e/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2285
 #2: ffff888085eeb240 (&data->fib_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: nsim_fib_event_work+0x283/0x3380 drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:1480
3 locks held by kworker/u4:11/4405:
5 locks held by syz.4.1561/11508:
1 lock held by syz-executor/15554:

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 27 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+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:148 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:212 [inline]
 watchdog+0xe1b/0xe60 kernel/hung_task.c:369
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/08 00:05 linux-5.15.y 0996e0926f6b 680aa3e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in con_set_unimap
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.