INFO: task hung in con_font_op

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/10 12:27
Reported-by: syzbot+537908831b6690fbd537@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 12d, last: 12d
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in con_font_op 1 1 2469d 2469d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/04/17 20:41
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in con_font_op 1 3 2334d 2463d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/08/30 22:32
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in con_font_op 1 1 5d17h 5d17h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/09/17 11:52
upstream INFO: task hung in con_font_op serial 1 2 2308d 2321d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/08/26 18:47

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.3.3840:15772 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.3.3840      state:D stack:29136 pid:15772 ppid:4280   flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5246 [inline]
 __schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6563
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6639
 schedule_timeout+0xbd/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2144
 ___down_common kernel/locking/semaphore.c:229 [inline]
 __down_common+0x30c/0x740 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:250
 down+0x7c/0xd0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:64
 console_lock+0x141/0x1c0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2629
 con_font_default drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4701 [inline]
 con_font_op+0x2dd/0xdb0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4728
 vt_k_ioctl drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:476 [inline]
 vt_ioctl+0x161e/0x1ca0 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:754
 tty_ioctl+0x7e6/0xba0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2776
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f559399e159
RSP: 002b:00007f55948f7028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5593c26090 RCX: 00007f559399e159
RDX: 0000200000000e40 RSI: 0000000000004b72 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f5593a3503b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5593c26128 R14: 00007f5593c26090 R15: 00007ffd2068f718
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:0/9:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:1/11:
1 lock held by rcu_tasks_kthre/12:
 #0: ffffffff8cb2e5b0 (rcu_tasks.tasks_gp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rcu_tasks_one_gp+0x33/0xef0 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:517
1 lock held by rcu_tasks_trace/13:
 #0: ffffffff8cb2edd0 (rcu_tasks_trace.tasks_gp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rcu_tasks_one_gp+0x33/0xef0 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:517
1 lock held by khungtaskd/27:
 #0: ffffffff8cb2dc20 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8cb2dc20 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8cb2dc20 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x51/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6527
1 lock held by udevd/3639:
2 locks held by getty/4028:
 #0: ffff88814cf93098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:244
 #1: ffffc9000327b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x41e/0x1360 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2198
3 locks held by udevd/4365:
2 locks held by kworker/0:9/4379:
 #0: ffff888017470938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7b4/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2267
 #1: ffffc90004937d00 (console_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7b4/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2267
3 locks held by kworker/0:16/5127:
2 locks held by kworker/0:29/5140:
 #0: ffff888017472138 ((wq_completion)rcu_gp){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7b4/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2267
 #1: ffffc9000daf7d00 ((work_completion)(&rew->rew_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7b4/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2267
1 lock held by syz-executor/8545:
1 lock held by syz.7.3632/14962:
5 locks held by syz.3.3840/15766:
1 lock held by syz.2.3868/15853:
3 locks held by syz-executor/16077:
1 lock held by syz-executor/17779:
 #0: ffffffff8cb338f8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: exp_funnel_lock kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:291 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8cb338f8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x2ec/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:962
2 locks held by syz.5.4703/18713:
1 lock held by dhcpcd-run-hook/18715:

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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+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3e6/0x460 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+0xf0e/0xf50 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>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/10 12:26 linux-6.1.y cf82dcca9634 1fe56c0a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in con_font_op
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.