INFO: task hung in nfsd4_cld_tracking_init

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/03 22:38
Subsystems: nfs
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Reported-by: syzbot+edbebd898142ee5e24ce@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7h47m, last: 1h43m
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[syzbot] [nfs?] INFO: task hung in nfsd4_cld_tracking_init 0 (1) 2026/09/03 22:38

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz-executor22
INFO: task syz-executor224:5626 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor224 state:D stack:24312 pid:5626  tgid:5625  ppid:5624   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080802
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5520 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1259/0x6920 kernel/sched/core.c:7270
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7347 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x2c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7362
 schedule_timeout+0x1b2/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
 do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline]
 __wait_for_common+0x2e7/0x4c0 kernel/sched/completion.c:121
 __cld_pipe_upcall fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:673 [inline]
 cld_pipe_upcall fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:691 [inline]
 nfsd4_cld_get_version fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:1425 [inline]
 nfsd4_cld_tracking_init+0x4be/0x10f0 fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:1490
 nfsd4_client_tracking_init+0xe5/0x1c0 fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:1941
 nfs4_state_start_net.cold+0xb7/0x480 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:9838
 nfsd_startup_net fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:391 [inline]
 nfsd_svc+0x54a/0x7d0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:775
 write_threads+0x316/0x600 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:438
 nfsctl_transaction_write+0x106/0x1a0 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
 vfs_write+0x2aa/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:685
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbfd3713269
RSP: 002b:00007fbfd36eb1d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbfd37c3b68 RCX: 00007fbfd3713269
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007fbfd37c3b60 R08: 35203a6b63617473 R09: 35203a6b63617473
R10: 35203a6b63617473 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fbfd3795378
R13: 0000200000000200 R14: 0000200000000500 R15: 00002000000000c0
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
locks held by kworker/u8:1/13: 2, on CPU#0:
 #0: ffff88801c094140 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x1466/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3371
 #1: ffffc90000127d08 ((work_completion)(&(&kfence_timer)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0xa2c/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3372
locks held by pr/ttyS0/16: 2, last CPU#0:
 #0: ffffffff8edd8338 (console_srcu){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_try_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:314 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8edd8338 (console_srcu){....}-{0:0}, at: srcu_read_lock_nmisafe include/linux/srcu.h:439 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8edd8338 (console_srcu){....}-{0:0}, at: console_srcu_read_lock+0x49/0x60 kernel/printk/printk.c:291
 #1: ffffffff9bc63c78 (&port_lock_key){-.-.}-{3:3}, at: __uart_port_lock_irqsave include/linux/serial_core.h:613 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff9bc63c78 (&port_lock_key){-.-.}-{3:3}, at: univ8250_console_device_lock+0x64/0xc0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:413
locks held by khungtaskd/32: 1, last CPU#1:
 #0: ffffffff8edec060 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:309 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8edec060 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:849 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8edec060 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x3d/0x184 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6837
locks held by getty/5360: 2, on CPU#1:
 #0: ffff888029f520a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x24/0x80 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc900032262e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x419/0x14e0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2211
locks held by syz-executor224/5626: 3, on CPU#1:
 #0: ffff88802b935970 (&f->f_pos_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: fdget_pos+0x2aa/0x380 fs/file.c:1259
 #1: ffff888035040460 (sb_writers#9){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 #2: ffffffff8f287680 (nfsd_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: write_threads+0x288/0x600 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:436

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NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 32 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/05/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold+0x12d/0x151 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:123
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x21f/0x2a0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:66
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:164 [inline]
 __sys_info lib/sys_info.c:157 [inline]
 sys_info+0x141/0x190 lib/sys_info.c:165
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:353 [inline]
 watchdog+0xcb1/0x1030 kernel/hung_task.c:561
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16 Comm: pr/ttyS0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/05/2026
RIP: 0010:io_serial_in+0x87/0xb0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:410
Code: 07 5c fc 48 8d 7d 40 44 89 e1 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa d3 e3 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 75 1a 66 03 5d 40 89 da ec <5b> 0f b6 c0 5d 41 5c c3 cc cc cc cc e8 48 1a cf fc eb a2 e8 d1 1a
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000157958 EFLAGS: 00000002
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 00000000000003fd RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 00000000000003fd RSI: ffffffff85afe8d0 RDI: ffffffff9bc63ca0
RBP: ffffffff9bc63c60 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 000000000000001f
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 205d323354202020 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000020 R14: fffffbfff378c7e9 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888123b61000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000561b47b0e660 CR3: 000000000eb96000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 serial_in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h:128 [inline]
 serial_lsr_in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h:150 [inline]
 wait_for_lsr+0x13a/0x210 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2013
 serial8250_fifo_wait_for_lsr_thre+0x5f/0xd0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3270
 __serial8250_console_fifo_write+0xa5/0x290 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3345
 serial8250_console_fifo_write drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3378 [inline]
 __serial8250_console_write drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3429 [inline]
 serial8250_console_write+0xf46/0x1330 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3493
 nbcon_emit_next_record+0x8f7/0xa70 kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1070
 nbcon_emit_one+0x1a8/0x2b0 kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1157
 nbcon_kthread_func+0x613/0x7d0 kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1271
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/03 21:17 upstream 940de590b839 6a988719 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in nfsd4_cld_tracking_init
2026/09/03 15:14 upstream 940de590b839 6a988719 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in nfsd4_cld_tracking_init
2026/09/03 17:01 linux-next 32b6ef9a5d0e 6a988719 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in nfsd4_cld_tracking_init
2026/09/03 16:57 linux-next 32b6ef9a5d0e 6a988719 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in nfsd4_cld_tracking_init
2026/09/03 15:30 linux-next 32b6ef9a5d0e 6a988719 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in nfsd4_cld_tracking_init
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.