INFO: task hung in usb_set_configuration

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/24 14:15
Subsystems: usb input
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+c22bb42560ec86726aba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 19d, last: 5d22h
✨ AI Jobs (1)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
c2328a16 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: task hung in usb_set_configuration 2026/08/08 20:56 2026/08/08 20:56 2026/08/08 21:32 5d63f80b
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] kobject: avoid blocking allocation while holding uevent_sock_mutex 4 (4) 2026/08/26 07:28
[syzbot] [usb?] [input?] INFO: task hung in usb_set_configuration 0 (1) 2026/08/24 14:15
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/26 06:12 19m tao1.yu@intel.com https://github.com/yutao-intel/linux.git fix-usb no crash job log log

Sample crash report:
INFO: task kworker/0:2:733 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/0:2     state:D
 stack:26352 pid:733   tgid:733   ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event

Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5510 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1325/0x47d0 kernel/sched/core.c:7234
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7311 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x2c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7326
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7383
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:726 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0xccc/0x1bd0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:821
 uevent_net_broadcast_untagged lib/kobject_uevent.c:317 [inline]
 kobject_uevent_net_broadcast lib/kobject_uevent.c:410 [inline]
 kobject_uevent_env+0xba8/0x18b0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:611
 device_add+0x1173/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3738
 usb_set_configuration+0xd97/0x1c60 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0xa1/0xe0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0xef/0x400 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_new_device.part.0+0xcc2/0x1686 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2708
 usb_new_device drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833 [inline]
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5580 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5720 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5884 [inline]
 hub_event.cold+0x51a/0xe9d drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5966
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3322
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3405 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x69a/0xc80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
7 locks held by kworker/0:1/11:
 #0: 
ffff8881062b0540
 (
(wq_completion)usb_hub_wq
){+.+.}-{0:0}
, at: process_one_work+0x12b1/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3297
 #1: 
ffffc900000bfd18
 (
(work_completion)(&hub->events)
){+.+.}-{0:0}
, at: process_one_work+0x988/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3298
 #2: 
ffff88810b3051d8

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/20 14:07 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing e1e6e541c5c9 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: task hung in usb_set_configuration
2026/08/06 19:56 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 5d5fd841c346 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb INFO: task hung in usb_set_configuration
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.