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INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages (3)

Status: fixed on 2024/02/21 18:23
Subsystems: gfs2
[Documentation on labels]
Reported-by: syzbot+4fcffdd85e518af6f129@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: 6f861765464f fs: Block writes to mounted block devices
First crash: 464d, last: 270d
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit 47b7ec1daa511cd82cb9c31e88bfdb664b031d2a
Author: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Feb 5 17:10:17 2021 +0000

  gfs2: Enable rgrplvb for sb_fs_format 1802

Crash: INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
Fix bisection: fixed by (bisect log) :
commit 6f861765464f43a71462d52026fbddfc858239a5
Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Wed Nov 1 17:43:10 2023 +0000

  fs: Block writes to mounted block devices

  
▶ ▼ Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[syzbot] [gfs2?] INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages (3) 1 (3) 2024/02/16 11:43
[syzbot] Monthly gfs2 report (Dec 2023) 0 (1) 2023/12/07 09:56
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages fs mm 65 2118d 2489d 0/28 closed as dup on 2017/12/12 16:30
upstream INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages (2) mm fs C done 36 511d 581d 22/28 fixed on 2023/06/08 14:41
android-44 INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages 10 2351d 2407d 0/2 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/02/22 13:49
android-49 INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages syz 17 2359d 1999d 0/3 public: reported syz repro on 2019/04/14 09:28
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages 1 510d 510d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/23 09:07
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2023/09/21 01:05 10m retest repro upstream report log
▶ ▼ Fix bisection attempts (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2024/02/16 05:13 5h49m bisect fix upstream OK (1) job log
2024/01/07 02:02 1h42m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2023/11/21 22:23 2h15m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log
2023/10/15 21:23 1h51m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
INFO: task kworker/u4:5:138 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted 6.5.0-syzkaller-11075-g92901222f83d #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/u4:5    state:D stack:21344 pid:138   ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1873/0x48f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6695
 schedule+0xc3/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6771
 io_schedule+0x8c/0x100 kernel/sched/core.c:9026
 folio_wait_bit_common+0x871/0x12a0 mm/filemap.c:1304
 folio_lock include/linux/pagemap.h:1042 [inline]
 write_cache_pages+0x517/0x13f0 mm/page-writeback.c:2441
 iomap_writepages+0x68/0x240 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1979
 gfs2_writepages+0x169/0x1f0 fs/gfs2/aops.c:191
 do_writepages+0x3a6/0x670 mm/page-writeback.c:2553
 __writeback_single_inode+0x155/0xfa0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1603
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x8e3/0x11d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1894
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x11b/0x260 fs/fs-writeback.c:1965
 wb_writeback+0x461/0xc60 fs/fs-writeback.c:2072
 wb_check_background_flush fs/fs-writeback.c:2142 [inline]
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2230 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0xc6f/0xff0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2257
 process_one_work+0x781/0x1130 kernel/workqueue.c:2630
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2703 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xabf/0x1060 kernel/workqueue.c:2784
 kthread+0x2b8/0x350 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304
 </TASK>
INFO: task syz-executor336:5029 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted 6.5.0-syzkaller-11075-g92901222f83d #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor336 state:D stack:23408 pid:5029  ppid:5028   flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1873/0x48f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6695
 schedule+0xc3/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6771
 io_schedule+0x8c/0x100 kernel/sched/core.c:9026
 folio_wait_bit_common+0x871/0x12a0 mm/filemap.c:1304
 folio_lock include/linux/pagemap.h:1042 [inline]
 write_cache_pages+0x517/0x13f0 mm/page-writeback.c:2441
 iomap_writepages+0x68/0x240 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1979
 gfs2_writepages+0x169/0x1f0 fs/gfs2/aops.c:191
 do_writepages+0x3a6/0x670 mm/page-writeback.c:2553
 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x125/0x180 mm/filemap.c:393
 __filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:426 [inline]
 __filemap_fdatawrite mm/filemap.c:432 [inline]
 filemap_fdatawrite+0x143/0x1b0 mm/filemap.c:437
 gfs2_ordered_write fs/gfs2/log.c:740 [inline]
 gfs2_log_flush+0xa42/0x25f0 fs/gfs2/log.c:1098
 gfs2_trans_end+0x39f/0x560 fs/gfs2/trans.c:158
 gfs2_page_mkwrite+0x1262/0x14f0 fs/gfs2/file.c:533
 do_page_mkwrite+0x197/0x470 mm/memory.c:2931
 do_shared_fault mm/memory.c:4647 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4709 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:3669 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4978 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5119 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x22b2/0x6200 mm/memory.c:5284
 do_user_addr_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1413 [inline]
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1505 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x2ac/0x860 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1561
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570
RIP: 0033:0x7f088fba48e7
RSP: 002b:00007fff09b9e550 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0030656c69662f2e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000020000180
RDX: 00000000c018937d RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: 0000000000000010
RBP: 00007f088fc5f5f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff09b9e580
R13: 00007fff09b9e7a8 R14: 431bde82d7b634db R15: 00007f088fc2203b
 </TASK>
INFO: task gfs2_logd:5032 blocked for more than 144 seconds.
      Not tainted 6.5.0-syzkaller-11075-g92901222f83d #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:gfs2_logd       state:D stack:28672 pid:5032  ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1873/0x48f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6695
 schedule+0xc3/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6771
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x20 kernel/sched/core.c:6830
 rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0xedd/0x13a0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1178
 __down_write_common+0x1aa/0x200 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1306
 gfs2_log_flush+0x105/0x25f0 fs/gfs2/log.c:1042
 gfs2_logd+0x488/0xec0 fs/gfs2/log.c:1325
 kthread+0x2b8/0x350 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304
 </TASK>
INFO: task gfs2_quotad:5033 blocked for more than 144 seconds.
      Not tainted 6.5.0-syzkaller-11075-g92901222f83d #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:gfs2_quotad     state:D stack:27216 pid:5033  ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1873/0x48f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6695
 schedule+0xc3/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6771
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x20 kernel/sched/core.c:6830
 rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x5f4/0x950 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1086
 __down_read_common kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1250 [inline]
 __down_read kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1263 [inline]
 down_read+0x9c/0x2f0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1522
 __gfs2_trans_begin+0x55c/0x940 fs/gfs2/trans.c:87
 gfs2_trans_begin+0x71/0xe0 fs/gfs2/trans.c:118
 gfs2_statfs_sync+0x41e/0x870 fs/gfs2/super.c:298
 quotad_check_timeo fs/gfs2/quota.c:1510 [inline]
 gfs2_quotad+0x37f/0x680 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1552
 kthread+0x2b8/0x350 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304
 </TASK>
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 29 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted 6.5.0-syzkaller-11075-g92901222f83d #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/26/2023
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x1e7/0x2d0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x498/0x4d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x198/0x310 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+0xdf5/0xe40 kernel/hung_task.c:379
 kthread+0x2b8/0x350 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 68 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted 6.5.0-syzkaller-11075-g92901222f83d #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/26/2023
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:__insn_get_emulate_prefix arch/x86/lib/insn.c:91 [inline]
RIP: 0010:insn_get_emulate_prefix arch/x86/lib/insn.c:106 [inline]
RIP: 0010:insn_get_prefixes+0x113/0x18a0 arch/x86/lib/insn.c:134
Code: 0f b6 04 03 84 c0 0f 85 fd 10 00 00 41 0f b6 6d 00 bf 0f 00 00 00 89 ee e8 5a 5e c8 f6 4d 8d 65 02 83 fd 0f 0f 85 15 01 00 00 <4d> 39 f4 0f 87 0c 01 00 00 48 8b 44 24 08 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001597660 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffffffff160ae95 RCX: ffffffff8b0574ab
RDX: ffff888018ab8000 RSI: 000000000000000f RDI: 000000000000000f
RBP: 000000000000000f R08: ffffffff8ac531f6 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc900015979c0 R11: fffff520002b2f43 R12: ffffffff8b0574ac
R13: ffffffff8b0574aa R14: ffffffff8b0574b9 R15: ffffc900015979c0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555efaf520e8 CR3: 000000000d130000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <NMI>
 </NMI>
 <TASK>
 insn_get_opcode+0x1b2/0xa50 arch/x86/lib/insn.c:272
 insn_get_modrm+0x22e/0x7a0 arch/x86/lib/insn.c:343
 insn_get_sib arch/x86/lib/insn.c:421 [inline]
 insn_get_displacement+0x13e/0x980 arch/x86/lib/insn.c:464
 insn_get_immediate+0x382/0x13d0 arch/x86/lib/insn.c:632
 insn_get_length arch/x86/lib/insn.c:707 [inline]
 insn_decode+0x370/0x500 arch/x86/lib/insn.c:747
 text_poke_loc_init+0xed/0x860 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2312
 arch_jump_label_transform_queue+0x8b/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:138
 __jump_label_update+0x177/0x3a0 kernel/jump_label.c:475
 static_key_disable_cpuslocked+0xce/0x1b0 kernel/jump_label.c:235
 static_key_disable+0x1a/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:243
 toggle_allocation_gate+0x1b8/0x250 mm/kfence/core.c:834
 process_one_work+0x781/0x1130 kernel/workqueue.c:2630
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2703 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xabf/0x1060 kernel/workqueue.c:2784
 kthread+0x2b8/0x350 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304
 </TASK>
INFO: NMI handler (nmi_cpu_backtrace_handler) took too long to run: 1.251 msecs

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2023/09/03 07:40 upstream 92901222f83d 696ea0d2 .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/12/07 20:52 upstream bee0e7762ad2 0a02ce36 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/12/03 23:36 upstream 33cc938e65a9 f819d6f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/09/06 22:55 upstream 744a759492b5 72324844 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/09/04 02:04 upstream db906f0ca6bb 696ea0d2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/09/03 19:44 upstream 6e32dfcccfcc 696ea0d2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/09/03 10:21 upstream 92901222f83d 696ea0d2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/09/03 04:51 upstream 92901222f83d 696ea0d2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/06/27 00:29 upstream 6995e2de6891 4cd5bb25 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
2023/10/18 23:32 linux-next 2dac75696c6d 342b9c55 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in write_cache_pages
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.