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INFO: task hung in tty_open
Status:
upstream: reported on 2026/08/03 13:33
Reported-by: syzbot+7079ad18402f43113752@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 57d, last: 5d08h
Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.6.1885:12916 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.6.1885 state:D stack:27920 pid:12916 ppid:6042 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_preempt_disabled+0xf/0x20 kernel/sched/core.c:6698
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:679 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x548/0xae0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:747
tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2045 [inline]
tty_open+0x204/0xcb0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2128
chrdev_open+0x585/0x5f0 fs/char_dev.c:414
do_dentry_open+0x7dd/0x10b0 fs/open.c:882
do_open fs/namei.c:3677 [inline]
path_openat+0x2674/0x2f10 fs/namei.c:3834
do_filp_open+0x1ee/0x420 fs/namei.c:3861
do_sys_openat2+0x14b/0x4f0 fs/open.c:1320
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1336 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1352 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1347 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1347
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: 0033:0x7f5657f5e98e
RSP: 002b:00007f5658e33b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5658e346c0 RCX: 00007f5657f5e98e
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f5658e33c00 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f565803506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5658226038 R14: 00007f5658225fa0 R15: 00007ffde1f337b8
</TASK>
Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by rcu_tasks_kthre/12:
#0: ffffffff8cb2e170 (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: ffffffff8cb2e990 (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: ffffffff8cb2d7e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8cb2d7e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8cb2d7e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x51/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6529
2 locks held by getty/4028:
#0: ffff88814d47a098 (&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 kworker/0:6/4348:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:7/4352:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:21/5783:
3 locks held by syz.8.1842/12783:
1 lock held by syz.6.1885/12916:
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2045 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x204/0xcb0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2128
1 lock held by syz.4.1881/13142:
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2045 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x204/0xcb0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2128
1 lock held by syz.1.1962/13404:
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2045 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x204/0xcb0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2128
1 lock held by syz.2.2077/13921:
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xcc/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.5.2091/13966:
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2045 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x204/0xcb0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2128
1 lock held by syz.9.2213/14477:
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2045 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x204/0xcb0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2128
1 lock held by syz.0.2244/14611:
#0: ffffffff8d290de8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xcc/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.8.2248/14625:
#0: ffff8880300397d8 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: mmap_write_lock_killable include/linux/mmap_lock.h:87 [inline]
#0: ffff8880300397d8 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: vm_mmap_pgoff+0x16c/0x2d0 mm/util.c:518
1 lock held by syz.8.2248/14626:
1 lock held by cmp/14633:
=============================================
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>
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.