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INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/11 16:43
Subsystems: block trace
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Reported-by: syzbot+774863666ef5b025c9d0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 271d, last: 13d
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[syzbot] [block?] [trace?] INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop 0 (1) 2025/11/11 16:43
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop 1 2 1312d 1314d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/16 23:57

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.6.3379:19656 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.6.3379      state:D stack:28776 pid:19656 tgid:19654 ppid:16553  task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7011 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7026
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7083
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:676 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x7e6/0x1350 kernel/locking/mutex.c:760
 blk_trace_startstop+0xa3/0x640 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:682
 blk_trace_ioctl+0x19b/0x430 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:724
 blkdev_common_ioctl+0xdf4/0x2550 block/ioctl.c:630
 blkdev_ioctl+0x4f6/0x6d0 block/ioctl.c:699
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbcfcb8f6c9
RSP: 002b:00007fbcfdaa3038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbcfcde6090 RCX: 00007fbcfcb8f6c9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000001275 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fbcfcc11f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fbcfcde6128 R14: 00007fbcfcde6090 R15: 00007fbcfcf0fa28
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/31:
 #0: ffffffff8df3d660 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8df3d660 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8df3d660 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
2 locks held by getty/5588:
 #0: ffff888032fa10a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc9000332b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x43e/0x1400 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2222
3 locks held by syz.6.3379/19655:
1 lock held by syz.6.3379/19656:
 #0: ffff888142f2b068 (&q->debugfs_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: blk_trace_startstop+0xa3/0x640 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:682

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x39e/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x300 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:160 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:332 [inline]
 watchdog+0xf60/0xfa0 kernel/hung_task.c:495
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 19655 Comm: syz.6.3379 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:unwind_get_return_address+0x4d/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:369
Code: c0 75 4c 83 3b 00 74 3a 48 83 c3 48 49 89 df 49 c1 ef 03 43 80 3c 37 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 4b 30 b2 00 48 8b 3b e8 b3 cf 18 00 <85> c0 74 14 43 80 3c 37 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 30 30 b2 00 48 8b 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b257668 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffc9000b2576d0 RCX: 6861806b914a4f00
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d8f46a3 RDI: ffffffff846da7ad
RBP: ffffc9000b257710 R08: ffffc9000b257dd0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc9000b2576d8 R11: fffff5200164aedd R12: ffff888066a03c80
R13: 1ffff9200164aefc R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff9200164aeda
FS:  00007fbcfdac46c0(0000) GS:ffff88812623b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f184bdb3ad8 CR3: 0000000043d28000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_stack_walk+0xfc/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0xf5/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:156
 __reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:311
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1394 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc4/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2906
 relay_destroy_buf+0x10e/0x3a0 kernel/relay.c:200
 relay_remove_buf kernel/relay.c:220 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 relay_close_buf kernel/relay.c:435 [inline]
 relay_open+0x734/0x920 kernel/relay.c:531
 do_blk_trace_setup+0x561/0x980 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:572
 blk_trace_setup+0x116/0x1f0 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:614
 blk_trace_ioctl+0x181/0x430 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:712
 blkdev_ioctl+0x41d/0x6d0 block/ioctl.c:694
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbcfcb8f6c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fbcfdac4038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbcfcde5fa0 RCX: 00007fbcfcb8f6c9
RDX: 00002000000000c0 RSI: 00000000c0481273 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fbcfcc11f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fbcfcde6038 R14: 00007fbcfcde5fa0 R15: 00007fbcfcf0fa28
 </TASK>

Crashes (30):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/07 16:36 upstream 4a0c9b339199 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/10/29 07:30 upstream 8eefed8f65cc fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/10/18 22:47 upstream f406055cb18c 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/10/05 11:25 upstream d104e3d17f7b 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/10/05 02:26 upstream d104e3d17f7b 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/09/16 09:53 upstream 46a51f4f5eda e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/09/05 23:33 upstream c8ed9b5c02a5 d291dd2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/08/30 10:07 upstream fb679c832b64 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/08/19 19:12 upstream 038d61fd6422 523f460e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/08/01 18:39 upstream 89748acdf226 40127d41 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/07/24 22:11 upstream 25fae0b93d1d fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/07/14 18:40 upstream 347e9f5043c8 03fcfc4b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/07/06 07:53 upstream 05df91921da6 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/06/22 11:38 upstream 739a6c93cc75 d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/06/21 23:53 upstream 3f75bfff44be d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/06/19 09:55 upstream fb4d33ab452e ed3e87f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/06/16 04:42 upstream 08215f5486ec 5f4b362d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/06/15 09:27 upstream 8c6bc74c7f89 5f4b362d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/05/30 08:12 upstream e0797d3b91de 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/03/28 05:10 upstream 1a9239bb4253 6c09fb82 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/03/25 17:02 upstream 3ba7dfb8da62 875573af .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/03/12 10:46 upstream 0fed89a961ea ee70e6db .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/03/09 20:15 upstream 1110ce6a1e34 163f510d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/03/09 06:06 upstream 2a520073e74f 163f510d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/02/24 12:00 upstream d082ecbc71e9 d34966d1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/02/23 06:01 upstream 5cf80612d3f7 d34966d1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/07/27 21:20 upstream ec2df4364666 fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/05/19 08:45 upstream a5806cd506af f41472b0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/10/05 19:04 linux-next 47a8d4b89844 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
2025/10/01 21:39 linux-next 3b9b1f8df454 a1859138 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in blk_trace_startstop
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.