INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/17 20:15
Subsystems: block
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Reported-by: syzbot+b8c45d4034039b7ce03e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1669d, last: 1653d
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
64b88e79 assessment-security 💥 INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2) 2026/08/09 22:43 2026/08/09 22:43 2026/08/09 22:53 5d63f80b
7e3e037b assessment-security 💥 INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2) 2026/07/09 01:47 2026/07/09 01:47 2026/07/09 01:48 93f57954
997688e5 assessment-security 💥 INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2) 2026/06/22 03:36 2026/06/22 03:36 2026/06/22 03:36 43bfcdb0
dd580a30 assessment-security 💥 INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2) 2026/06/14 02:52 2026/06/14 02:52 2026/06/14 02:53 4f06757f
dc11c935 assessment-security 💥 INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2) 2026/06/09 18:41 2026/06/09 18:41 2026/06/09 18:43 c36c07f6
79af6f65 assessment-security 💥 INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2) 2026/06/02 17:17 2026/06/02 17:17 2026/06/02 17:19 62fe1528
2c0b93c4 assessment-security 💥 INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2) 2026/05/26 01:42 2026/05/26 01:42 2026/05/26 01:45 c69befb3
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[syzbot] INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait (2) 0 (1) 2022/02/14 12:41
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait block 1 1 1819d 1815d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/10/30 22:05
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/17 19:45 29m retest repro linux-next no crash job log log
2026/06/08 05:37 39m retest repro linux-next error
2026/03/30 04:08 59m retest repro linux-next report log
2026/01/19 03:18 20m retest repro linux-next report log
2025/11/10 00:54 22m retest repro linux-next report log
2025/09/01 00:23 29m retest repro linux-next error
2025/06/22 07:42 20m retest repro linux-next report log
2025/04/13 06:58 18m retest repro linux-next report log
2025/02/01 16:34 15m retest repro linux-next report log
2024/11/22 08:48 1h20m retest repro linux-next report log

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz-executor157:3633 can't die for more than 143 seconds.
task:syz-executor157 state:D stack:28120 pid: 3633 ppid:  3629 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5000 [inline]
 __schedule+0xab2/0x4db0 kernel/sched/core.c:6309
 schedule+0xd2/0x1f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6381
 schedule_timeout+0x14a/0x2a0 kernel/time/timer.c:1881
 io_schedule_timeout+0xcb/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:8406
 do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:85 [inline]
 __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]
 wait_for_common_io kernel/sched/completion.c:123 [inline]
 wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0x16f/0x280 kernel/sched/completion.c:191
 submit_bio_wait+0x158/0x230 block/bio.c:1308
 blkdev_issue_flush+0x95/0xd0 block/blk-flush.c:464
 blkdev_fsync+0x68/0xa0 block/fops.c:471
 vfs_fsync_range fs/sync.c:188 [inline]
 vfs_fsync fs/sync.c:202 [inline]
 do_fsync fs/sync.c:212 [inline]
 __do_sys_fdatasync fs/sync.c:225 [inline]
 __se_sys_fdatasync fs/sync.c:223 [inline]
 __x64_sys_fdatasync+0xc5/0x140 fs/sync.c:223
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7fcb854986d9
RSP: 002b:00007ffd575ac058 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004b
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000076c12 RCX: 00007fcb854986d9
RDX: 00007fcb854986d9 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00007ffd575ac1f8 R09: 00007ffd575ac1f8
R10: 00007ffd575ac1f8 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd575ac06c
R13: 431bde82d7b634db R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/26:
 #0: ffffffff8bb83a60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x53/0x260 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6463
2 locks held by getty/3275:
 #0: ffff88807f051098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x22/0x80 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:244
 #1: ffffc90002b662e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0xcf0/0x1230 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2077

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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2022/02/14 12:41 linux-next ef6b35306dd8 8b9ca619 .config console log report syz C ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait
2022/02/14 09:27 linux-next ef6b35306dd8 8b9ca619 .config console log report info ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait
2022/01/29 02:05 linux-next b605fdc54c2b 495e00c5 .config console log report info ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task can't die in submit_bio_wait
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.