INFO: task hung in n_tty_ioctl

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/02 16:39
Reported-by: syzbot+44bb8f71cca49acab756@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d05h, last: 7d05h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in n_tty_ioctl serial 1 1 461d 461d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/02 22:22

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.3.1414:8173 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.3.1414      state:D stack:28384 pid: 8173 ppid:  4187 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
 rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0xe63/0x13a0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1165
 n_tty_ioctl+0xa6/0x310 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2464
 tty_ioctl+0x8e3/0xc30 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2819
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0xcfb/0x1f40 fs/ioctl.c:834
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:872 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x83/0x170 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: 0033:0x7f8e9cd79159
RSP: 002b:00007f8e9afb0028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8e9d001090 RCX: 00007f8e9cd79159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000541b RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f8e9ce10024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8e9d001128 R14: 00007f8e9d001090 R15: 00007ffc46d2b8e8
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
2 locks held by kworker/u4:0/9:
 #0: ffff888016c79138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x75c/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
 #1: ffffc90000ce7d00 (connector_reaper_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x79e/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2285
1 lock held by khungtaskd/27:
 #0: ffffffff8c31ef60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x0/0x30
2 locks held by kworker/u4:1/144:
 #0: ffff888016c79138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x75c/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
 #1: ffffc900015afd00 ((reaper_work).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x79e/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2285
2 locks held by getty/3943:
 #0: ffff88802cad6098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:252
 #1: ffffc90002cf62e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x594/0x1a50 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2158
5 locks held by udevd/4175:
 #0: ffff8880540de898 (&iint_mutex_key[depth]){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: process_measurement+0x724/0x1c20 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:261
 #1: ffff888017be7d58 (&p->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: seq_read_iter+0x9d/0xc50 fs/seq_file.c:182
 #2: ffff88805fa76888 (&of->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kernfs_seq_start+0x55/0x3c0 fs/kernfs/file.c:112
 #3: ffff88804c09c2c0 (kn->active#32){++++}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_seq_start+0x75/0x3c0 fs/kernfs/file.c:113
 #4: ffff88801bd6b220 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_lock include/linux/device.h:809 [inline]
 #4: ffff88801bd6b220 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: uevent_show+0x16c/0x320 drivers/base/core.c:2408
1 lock held by udevd/4177:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:4/4211:
2 locks held by kworker/0:6/4233:
2 locks held by kworker/0:11/5644:
 #0: ffff888016c70938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x75c/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
 #1: ffffc90003a9fd00 (console_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x79e/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2285
7 locks held by kworker/0:14/5648:
 #0: ffff88801bde6938 ((wq_completion)usb_hub_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x75c/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
 #1: ffffc90003adfd00 ((work_completion)(&hub->events)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x79e/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2285
 #2: ffff88802455f220 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_lock include/linux/device.h:809 [inline]
 #2: ffff88802455f220 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: hub_event+0x178/0x5260 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5832
 #3: ffff88801bd6b220 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_lock include/linux/device.h:809 [inline]
 #3: ffff88801bd6b220 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: __device_attach+0x85/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:974
 #4: ffff8880608e01a8 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_lock include/linux/device.h:809 [inline]
 #4: ffff8880608e01a8 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: __device_attach+0x85/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:974
 #5: ffff888053e61ab0 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_lock include/linux/device.h:809 [inline]
 #5: ffff888053e61ab0 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: __device_attach+0x85/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:974
 #6: ffffffff8c97f268 (registration_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: register_framebuffer+0x8a/0xa70 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1919
5 locks held by syz.3.1414/8170:
2 locks held by syz.3.1414/8173:
 #0: ffff888060efe098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:252
 #1: ffff888060efe2e8 (&tty->termios_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_ioctl+0xa6/0x310 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2464
1 lock held by syz.1.1832/9245:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f64c8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_release_struct+0xaa/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1718
2 locks held by syz.6.1836/9250:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f64c8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f64c8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
 #1: ffff88807d9e21c0 (&tty->legacy_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_init_dev+0x6f/0x470 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1430
1 lock held by syz.9.2106/10167:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f64c8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd2/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
2 locks held by dhcpcd-run-hook/10220:

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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
2026/09/02 16:38 linux-5.15.y 0996e0926f6b 85995287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in n_tty_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.