INFO: task hung in copy_ipcs

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/07 12:01
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+97a62389c5611b0477f3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10d, last: 10d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
b3b8f075 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: task hung in copy_ipcs 2026/08/04 00:00 2026/08/04 00:00 2026/08/04 00:22 cb1adeae
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Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] ipc: fix hung task in copy_ipcs() 1 (1) 2026/08/11 08:12
[syzbot] [kernel?] INFO: task hung in copy_ipcs 0 (2) 2026/08/11 05:59
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/11 05:59 3h22m ihaveihaveihavea@gmail.com patch linux-next error job log

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz-executor845:5856 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor845 state:D stack:27496 pid:5856  tgid:5856  ppid:5633   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080802
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5510 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1709/0x5530 kernel/sched/core.c:7231
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7308 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x2b0 kernel/sched/core.c:7323
 schedule_timeout+0xc0/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
 do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline]
 __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:121 [inline]
 wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:132 [inline]
 wait_for_completion+0x2ca/0x5e0 kernel/sched/completion.c:153
 __flush_work+0x9c2/0xd70 kernel/workqueue.c:4431
 create_ipc_ns ipc/namespace.c:55 [inline]
 copy_ipcs+0x19b/0x6c0 ipc/namespace.c:116
 create_new_namespaces+0x210/0x6b0 kernel/nsproxy.c:112
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x149/0x190 kernel/nsproxy.c:234
 ksys_unshare+0x5a7/0x950 kernel/fork.c:3291
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3355 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3353 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x50 kernel/fork.c:3353
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x17b/0x530 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:85
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fcdad6be489
RSP: 002b:00007ffd32b38008 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000110
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000005 RCX: 00007fcdad6be489
RDX: ffffffffffffffd8 RSI: ffffffffffffffd8 RDI: 0000000028000080
RBP: 0000000000041bab R08: 0000000000000006 R09: 0000000000000006
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd32b3801c
R13: 431bde82d7b634db R14: 00007fcdad751c40 R15: 0000000000000002
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
locks held by khungtaskd/39: 1, last CPU#0:
 #0: ffffffff8e3c3880 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e3c3880 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:840 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e3c3880 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6835
locks held by kworker/0:2/200: 2, on CPU#0:
 #0: ffff88813fe63938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #0: ffff88813fe63938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:840 [inline]
 #0: ffff88813fe63938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1480 kernel/workqueue.c:3344
 #1: ffffc90004287c60 (free_ipc_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90004287c60 (free_ipc_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:840 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90004287c60 (free_ipc_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1480 kernel/workqueue.c:3344
locks held by kworker/u8:16/3068: 2, on CPU#0:
 #0: ffff88801aea4138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #0: ffff88801aea4138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:840 [inline]
 #0: ffff88801aea4138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1480 kernel/workqueue.c:3344
 #1: ffffc9000e8e7c60 ((work_completion)(&(&kfence_timer)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #1: ffffc9000e8e7c60 ((work_completion)(&(&kfence_timer)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:840 [inline]
 #1: ffffc9000e8e7c60 ((work_completion)(&(&kfence_timer)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7fd/0x1480 kernel/workqueue.c:3344
locks held by getty/5350: 2, on CPU#0:
 #0: ffff888036a890a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc900044cb2e0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x460/0x1360 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2211

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 39 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x274/0x2d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:122
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x380 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:65
 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+0xfd7/0x1030 kernel/hung_task.c:561
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:64
Code: 0c 74 02 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 13 66 19 00 fb f4 <e9> 4c d0 03 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001e7e40 EFLAGS: 00000242
RAX: 00000000000e23d3 RBX: ffffffff8199b400 RCX: 0000000080000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d98ba58 RDI: ffffffff8bcbd080
RBP: ffffc900001e7f10 R08: ffff8880b8733d1b R09: 1ffff110170e67a3
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170e67a4 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 1ffff11003c50bb8 R14: 1ffff9200003cfd0 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125af2000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005636f3bac660 CR3: 000000000e1b0000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:768
 default_idle_call+0x72/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x2e0/0x540 kernel/sched/idle.c:355
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:454
 start_secondary+0x101/0x110 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x157
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/03 11:32 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c e611ffe1 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in copy_ipcs
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.