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INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (4)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/23 20:13
Subsystems: gfs2
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Reported-by: syzbot+9013411dc43f3582823a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 252d, last: 1d21h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
e8162464-150e-4201-be78-61372b01593a repro INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (4) 2026/03/07 14:45 2026/03/07 14:45 2026/03/07 14:54 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Discussions (3)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] gfs2: prevent corrupt data from entering jextent 1 (1) 2026/03/25 07:50
[syzbot] [gfs2?] INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (4) 2 (6) 2026/03/25 07:49
[PATCH] gfs2: fix hung task in gfs2_jhead_process_page 4 (4) 2026/03/25 01:42
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal 1 1 753d 753d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/09 15:26
upstream INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (3) gfs2 1 1 743d 743d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/09 17:03
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal 1 1 335d 335d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/01 12:08
upstream INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (2) gfs2 1 2 853d 863d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/21 00:05
upstream INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal gfs2 1 5 1038d 1213d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/20 05:04
Last patch testing requests (5)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/03/24 09:27 17m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next report log
2026/03/24 02:30 16m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next report log
2026/03/24 01:49 17m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next report log
2026/03/25 07:49 eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next running
2026/03/25 07:37 eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next running

Sample crash report:
INFO: task kworker/0:3:5963 blocked in I/O wait for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/0:3     state:D stack:25400 pid:5963  tgid:5963  ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000
Workqueue: gfs2_recovery gfs2_recover_func
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5352 [inline]
 __schedule+0x165c/0x5560 kernel/sched/core.c:6964
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7047 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7062
 io_schedule+0x7f/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7889
 folio_wait_bit_common+0x6d8/0xbc0 mm/filemap.c:1324
 folio_wait_locked include/linux/pagemap.h:1245 [inline]
 gfs2_jhead_process_page+0x175/0x670 fs/gfs2/lops.c:470
 gfs2_find_jhead+0xbd2/0xd30 fs/gfs2/lops.c:586
 gfs2_recover_func+0x6cf/0x1f60 fs/gfs2/recovery.c:459
 process_one_work+0x9a3/0x1710 kernel/workqueue.c:3288
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3379 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xba8/0x11e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3465
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
INFO: task syz.0.18:6005 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.0.18        state:D stack:24120 pid:6005  tgid:6005  ppid:5953   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5352 [inline]
 __schedule+0x165c/0x5560 kernel/sched/core.c:6964
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7047 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7062
 bit_wait+0x11/0xd0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:240
 __wait_on_bit+0xb9/0x310 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:52
 out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x13b/0x190 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:67
 wait_on_bit include/linux/wait_bit.h:77 [inline]
 gfs2_recover_journal+0xda/0x140 fs/gfs2/recovery.c:579
 init_journal+0x16ad/0x2280 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:794
 init_inodes+0xdb/0x320 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:844
 gfs2_fill_super+0x1a38/0x21d0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1250
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x431/0x4f0 fs/super.c:1694
 gfs2_get_tree+0x51/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1754
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3764 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x341/0xd30 fs/namespace.c:3840
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4173 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4372 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4349
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f611259da0a
RSP: 002b:00007ffe1764d4e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe1764d570 RCX: 00007f611259da0a
RDX: 0000200000037f40 RSI: 0000200000037f80 RDI: 00007ffe1764d530
RBP: 0000200000037f40 R08: 00007ffe1764d570 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000037f80
R13: 00007ffe1764d530 R14: 0000000000037fc4 R15: 0000200000000300
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by pool_workqueue_/3:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/30:
 #0: ffffffff8e75d7e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e75d7e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e75d7e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
2 locks held by getty/5600:
 #0: ffff888037d8f0a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc9000322b2e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x45c/0x13a0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2211
2 locks held by kworker/0:3/5963:
 #0: ffff8880232a6140 ((wq_completion)gfs2_recovery){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x890/0x1710 kernel/workqueue.c:3260
 #1: ffffc900043b7c40 ((work_completion)(&jd->jd_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1710 kernel/workqueue.c:3261
1 lock held by syz.0.18/6005:
 #0: ffff8880346ce0d8 (&type->s_umount_key#54/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: alloc_super+0x28c/0xab0 fs/super.c:345
3 locks held by syz.1.203/6599:

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 30 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x274/0x2d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x300 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:162 [inline]
 __sys_info lib/sys_info.c:157 [inline]
 sys_info+0x135/0x170 lib/sys_info.c:165
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:353 [inline]
 watchdog+0xfd3/0x1030 kernel/hung_task.c:561
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 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: 6599 Comm: syz.1.203 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:mark_lock+0xa4/0x190 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4774
Code: 0e 48 c7 c6 19 03 06 8e 67 48 0f b9 3a 90 31 c9 4c 89 fe 4c 89 f7 b8 01 00 00 00 85 69 60 74 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d <c3> cc cc cc cc cc 49 89 fe 49 89 f7 e8 5b 94 ff ff 89 c1 31 c0 85
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a08840 EFLAGS: 00000006
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88801d3dc8e8 RCX: ffffffff93c65330
RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: ffff88801d3dc8c8 RDI: ffff88801d3dbd00
RBP: ffff88801d3dc8c8 R08: ffffffff84b9d570 R09: ffffffff9a4fdcb8
R10: ffffc90000a08a60 R11: fffff5200014114e R12: 0000000000000003
R13: ffff88801d3dc8c8 R14: ffff88801d3dbd00 R15: 0000000000000003
FS:  000055557c000500(0000) GS:ffff888125548000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055910e737168 CR3: 000000006c700000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 mark_usage kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4674 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0x6b5/0x2cf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5191
 lock_acquire+0x106/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
 debug_object_assert_init+0xb0/0x370 lib/debugobjects.c:1035
 debug_timer_assert_init kernel/time/timer.c:803 [inline]
 debug_assert_init kernel/time/timer.c:848 [inline]
 __mod_timer+0x4a/0xf30 kernel/time/timer.c:1025
 dsp_cmx_send+0x1abe/0x1b40 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c:1839
 call_timer_fn+0x192/0x5e0 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2373 [inline]
 __run_timer_base+0x652/0x8b0 kernel/time/timer.c:2385
 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2394 [inline]
 run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:626
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:660 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:739
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:756
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:console_trylock_spinning kernel/printk/printk.c:2039 [inline]
RIP: 0010:vprintk_emit+0x45d/0x560 kernel/printk/printk.c:2478
Code: 0f 84 44 ff ff ff e8 a2 09 21 00 fb eb 44 e8 9a 09 21 00 e8 75 7b 0b 0a 4d 85 f6 74 94 e8 8b 09 21 00 fb 48 c7 c7 00 fc 74 8e <31> f6 ba 01 00 00 00 31 c9 41 b8 01 00 00 00 45 31 c9 53 e8 cb 18
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004b06e00 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81a547f5 RBX: ffffffff81a5466f RCX: ffff88801d3dbd00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8e74fc00
RBP: ffffc90004b06eb0 R08: ffffffff90123cf7 R09: 1ffffffff202479e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff202479f R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000002f R14: 0000000000000200 R15: 1ffff92000960dc4
 _printk+0xdd/0x130 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504
 set_capacity_and_notify+0x2c5/0x320 block/genhd.c:93
 loop_set_size+0x44/0xb0 drivers/block/loop.c:220
 loop_configure+0x9ac/0xdf0 drivers/block/loop.c:1079
 lo_ioctl+0x447/0x1fb0 drivers/block/loop.c:1534
 blkdev_ioctl+0x5e3/0x740 block/ioctl.c:804
 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+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa17279c42b
Code: 00 48 89 44 24 18 31 c0 48 8d 44 24 60 c7 04 24 10 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 08 48 8d 44 24 20 48 89 44 24 10 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <89> c2 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1c 48 8b 44 24 18 64 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00
RSP: 002b:00007ffde9d10a80 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 00007fa17279c42b
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000004c00 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007ffde9d10bb0 R14: 00007ffde9d10b70 R15: 00007fa169800000
 </TASK>

Crashes (20):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/22 05:52 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/01/30 01:12 upstream 8dfce8991b95 aeb6fdd5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/01/25 17:46 upstream d91a46d6805a 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/01/18 14:31 upstream e84d960149e7 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/11/14 06:08 upstream 2ccec5944606 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/10/14 17:36 upstream 3a8660878839 b6605ba8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/09/16 22:20 upstream 46a51f4f5eda e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/09/16 09:15 upstream 46a51f4f5eda e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/09/12 09:33 upstream 02ffd6f89c50 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/08/14 04:28 upstream 91325f31afc1 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/23 10:11 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 23:13 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 22:33 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 12:46 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 11:29 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 03:32 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 02:16 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/12/16 10:18 linux-next 4a5663c04bb6 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/10/08 11:19 linux-next 68842969e138 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/07/15 22:20 linux-next 0be23810e32e 03fcfc4b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.