INFO: task hung in trigger_card_free

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/24 20:43
Reported-by: syzbot+641c0fbcdee7493641bf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d07h, last: 4d07h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in trigger_card_free prio:high usb input 1 syz 29 1d15h 1d08h 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/27 18:53

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.1.837:7259 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.1.837       state:D stack:25312 pid:7259  ppid:4288   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
 do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:85 [inline]
 __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]
 wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:117 [inline]
 wait_for_completion+0x2c2/0x590 kernel/sched/completion.c:138
 snd_card_free sound/core/init.c:670 [inline]
 trigger_card_free+0x152/0x1e0 sound/core/init.c:881
 release_nodes drivers/base/devres.c:502 [inline]
 devres_release_all+0x1a1/0x230 drivers/base/devres.c:532
 device_unbind_cleanup drivers/base/dd.c:529 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1284 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x53b/0x7c0 drivers/base/dd.c:1305
 unbind_store+0x2e2/0x300 drivers/base/bus.c:193
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a0/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2271 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x482/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x14d/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 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: 0033:0x7f1270b9e0d9
RSP: 002b:00007f1271994028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1270e25fa0 RCX: 00007f1270b9e0d9
RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 00002000000002c0 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007f1270c35024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1270e26038 R14: 00007f1270e25fa0 R15: 00007ffc86a3ffd8
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by rcu_tasks_kthre/12:
 #0: ffffffff8cb2e4f0 (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: ffffffff8cb2ed10 (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/28:
 #0: ffffffff8cb2db60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8cb2db60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8cb2db60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x51/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6527
1 lock held by dhcpcd/3934:
2 locks held by getty/4029:
 #0: ffff88802fc8d098 (&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
4 locks held by udevd/5203:
 #0: ffff8880b8e3ad18 (&rq->__lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x98/0x130 kernel/sched/core.c:546
 #1: ffff8880b8f27888 (&per_cpu_ptr(group->pcpu, cpu)->seq){-.-.}-{0:0}, at: psi_task_switch+0x400/0x740 kernel/sched/psi.c:999
 #2: ffff88807bbb2558 (&ep->lock){....}-{2:2}, at: ep_poll_callback+0x78/0xa00 fs/eventpoll.c:1150
 #3: ffff888072272c68 (&dentry->d_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline]
 #3: ffff888072272c68 (&dentry->d_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: lockref_put_or_lock+0x22/0xb0 lib/lockref.c:147
4 locks held by syz.1.837/7259:
 #0: ffff88807baa3c68 (&f->f_pos_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __fdget_pos+0x2ae/0x360 fs/file.c:1038
 #1: ffff888023590460 (sb_writers#8){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: vfs_write+0x270/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:580
 #2: ffff888058427488 (&of->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1d8/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:343
 #3: ffff88802f1dd0f8 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_lock include/linux/device.h:885 [inline]
 #3: ffff88802f1dd0f8 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: __device_driver_lock drivers/base/dd.c:1099 [inline]
 #3: ffff88802f1dd0f8 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_release_driver_internal+0xb1/0x7c0 drivers/base/dd.c:1302
1 lock held by dhcpcd-run-hook/8380:

=============================================

NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 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+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>
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 15 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:bytes_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:85 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:102 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned_n mm/kasan/generic.c:128 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned mm/kasan/generic.c:159 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:180 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x84/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
Code: 49 c1 e9 03 4b 8d 1c 21 49 89 df 4d 29 df 49 83 ff 10 7f 29 4d 85 ff 0f 84 38 01 00 00 4c 89 cb 48 f7 d3 4c 01 f3 41 80 3b 00 <0f> 85 86 01 00 00 49 ff c3 48 ff c3 75 ee e9 18 01 00 00 44 89 dd
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000147870 EFLAGS: 00000002
RAX: 00000000ffffff01 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: ffffffff81653f78
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffc900001478e0
RBP: ffffc90000147950 R08: ffffc900001478e3 R09: 1ffff92000028f1c
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000028f1c R12: dffffc0000000001
R13: ffffffff96f0f360 R14: 1ffff92000028f1c R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f7704972fb3 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:102 [inline]
 atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:542 [inline]
 queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_lock+0x128/0x2f0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:115
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:111 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xbc/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 debug_object_active_state+0x6b/0x380 lib/debugobjects.c:992
 debug_rcu_head_unqueue kernel/rcu/rcu.h:199 [inline]
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2289 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x91b/0x1740 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2557
 handle_softirqs+0x291/0x910 kernel/softirq.c:596
 run_ksoftirqd+0xa4/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:968
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x667/0xa30 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 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
2026/08/24 20:42 linux-6.1.y 05208478041c b55bd4c3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in trigger_card_free
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.