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INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast (4)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2024/12/23 01:23
Subsystems: ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+fd5533bcd0f7343bb8ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 302d, last: 5d16h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [ext4?] INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast (4) 0 (2) 2025/10/08 13:07
Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast (3) 1 1 194d 194d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/11 13:08
upstream INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast (3) ext4 1 7 427d 525d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/10 11:05
upstream INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast (2) ext4 1 C unreliable done 10 669d 823d 25/29 fixed on 2024/01/30 15:47
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast 1 3 887d 905d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/23 09:07
linux-6.6 INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast 1 1 76d 76d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/30 02:41
upstream INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast ext4 1 C error 28 861d 1010d 22/29 fixed on 2023/06/08 14:41
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast (2) origin:lts-only 1 syz inconclusive 2 172d 179d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/04/17 13:02
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast 1 1 327d 327d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/28 14:47
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast (2) 1 1 346d 346d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/09 11:15
Last patch testing requests (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/06/17 08:22 22m retest repro linux-next OK log
2025/04/07 16:57 43m retest repro linux-next error
2025/03/24 06:17 31m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci OK log
2025/01/26 19:12 1h02m retest repro linux-next error

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.1.551:8496 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.1.551       state:D stack:24424 pid:8496  tgid:8495  ppid:5991   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7011 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7026
 __wait_on_freeing_inode+0x1c5/0x2f0 fs/inode.c:2494
 find_inode_fast+0x2b0/0x470 fs/inode.c:1070
 iget_locked+0xaf/0x580 fs/inode.c:1433
 __ext4_iget+0x242/0x41c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:5210
 ext4_xattr_inode_cache_find fs/ext4/xattr.c:1545 [inline]
 ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create+0x438/0x1c20 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1584
 ext4_xattr_ibody_set+0x202/0x6a0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2263
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0xc9a/0x1590 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2440
 ext4_xattr_set+0x230/0x320 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2554
 __vfs_setxattr+0x43c/0x480 fs/xattr.c:200
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x12d/0x660 fs/xattr.c:234
 vfs_setxattr+0x16b/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:321
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:636 [inline]
 filename_setxattr+0x274/0x600 fs/xattr.c:665
 path_setxattrat+0x364/0x3a0 fs/xattr.c:713
 __do_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:747 [inline]
 __se_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:743 [inline]
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0xbc/0xe0 fs/xattr.c:743
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdacd18eec9
RSP: 002b:00007fdace024038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000bc
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdacd3e5fa0 RCX: 00007fdacd18eec9
RDX: 0000200000001400 RSI: 00002000000001c0 RDI: 0000200000000380
RBP: 00007fdacd211f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000835 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdacd3e6038 R14: 00007fdacd3e5fa0 R15: 00007fff7468a358
 </TASK>
INFO: task syz.1.551:8508 blocked for more than 144 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.1.551       state:D stack:26056 pid:8508  tgid:8495  ppid:5991   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5325 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7011 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7026
 mb_cache_entry_wait_unused+0x165/0x250 fs/mbcache.c:148
 ext4_evict_ea_inode+0x14d/0x2f0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:481
 ext4_evict_inode+0x16f/0xee0 fs/ext4/inode.c:183
 evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810
 ext4_xattr_ibody_set+0x510/0x6a0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2281
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0xc9a/0x1590 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2440
 ext4_xattr_set+0x230/0x320 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2554
 __vfs_setxattr+0x43c/0x480 fs/xattr.c:200
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x12d/0x660 fs/xattr.c:234
 vfs_setxattr+0x16b/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:321
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:636 [inline]
 filename_setxattr+0x274/0x600 fs/xattr.c:665
 path_setxattrat+0x364/0x3a0 fs/xattr.c:713
 __do_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:747 [inline]
 __se_sys_setxattr fs/xattr.c:743 [inline]
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0xbc/0xe0 fs/xattr.c:743
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdacd18eec9
RSP: 002b:00007fdace003038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000bc
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdacd3e6090 RCX: 00007fdacd18eec9
RDX: 0000200000001400 RSI: 00002000000001c0 RDI: 0000200000000200
RBP: 00007fdacd211f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000835 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdacd3e6128 R14: 00007fdacd3e6090 R15: 00007fff7468a358
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
5 locks held by kworker/u8:0/12:
1 lock held by ksoftirqd/1/23:
 #0: ffff888024985b18 (&fq->mq_flush_lock){..-.}-{3:3}, at: raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x2a/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:638
1 lock held by khungtaskd/31:
 #0: ffffffff8e13d320 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e13d320 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e13d320 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
2 locks held by getty/5577:
 #0: ffff88814d3930a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc900036bb2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x43e/0x1400 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2222
1 lock held by udevd/5892:
 #0: ffff888140ac0188 (&root->kernfs_rwsem){++++}-{4:4}, at: kernfs_dop_revalidate+0x9e/0x5d0 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1180
2 locks held by syz-executor/5988:
 #0: ffff888024845358 (&disk->open_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: bdev_release+0x1a9/0x650 block/bdev.c:1128
 #1: ffff8880b863a058 (&rq->__lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x2a/0x140 kernel/sched/core.c:638
1 lock held by syz-executor/5999:
1 lock held by syz-executor/6000:
1 lock held by syz-executor/6003:
 #0: ffffffff8e142db8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: exp_funnel_lock kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:343 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e142db8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x3b9/0x730 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:957
3 locks held by syz.1.551/8496:
 #0: ffff88807b85c420 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write+0x41/0x90 fs/namespace.c:508
 #1: ffff888058a1ed10 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:980 [inline]
 #1: ffff888058a1ed10 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: vfs_setxattr+0x144/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:320
 #2: 
ffff888058a1e9f8 (&ei->xattr_sem){++++}-{4:4}, at: ext4_write_lock_xattr fs/ext4/xattr.h:157 [inline]
ffff888058a1e9f8 (&ei->xattr_sem){++++}-{4:4}, at: ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x165/0x1590 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2367
3 locks held by syz.1.551/8508:
 #0: ffff88807b85c420 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write+0x41/0x90 fs/namespace.c:508
 #1: ffff888058a02a20 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:980 [inline]
 #1: ffff888058a02a20 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: vfs_setxattr+0x144/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:320
 #2: ffff888058a02708 (&ei->xattr_sem){++++}-{4:4}, at: ext4_write_lock_xattr fs/ext4/xattr.h:157 [inline]
 #2: ffff888058a02708 (&ei->xattr_sem){++++}-{4:4}, at: ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x165/0x1590 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2367
3 locks held by syz.0.1661/13268:
1 lock held by syz.3.1660/13273:
1 lock held by syz.6.1659/13274:

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x39e/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x300 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:160 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:332 [inline]
 watchdog+0xf60/0xfa0 kernel/hung_task.c:495
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 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: 13273 Comm: syz.3.1660 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
RIP: 0010:io_serial_in+0x77/0xc0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:400
Code: e8 6e 6e a4 fc 44 89 f9 d3 e3 49 83 c6 40 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 cf 0c 0a fd 41 03 1e 89 da ec <0f> b6 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5e 41 5f e9 55 1b f5 fb cc 44 89 f9 80 e1 07
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e50f270 EFLAGS: 00000002
RAX: 1ffffffff33a2900 RBX: 00000000000003fd RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 00000000000003fd RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000020
RBP: ffffffff99d14e70 R08: ffff8880240a0237 R09: 1ffff11004814046
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff851b2530 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff99d14be0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f6d1fcb56c0(0000) GS:ffff888125e12000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f1b77495000 CR3: 0000000026505000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 serial_in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h:137 [inline]
 serial_lsr_in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h:159 [inline]
 wait_for_lsr+0x1a1/0x2f0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1961
 fifo_wait_for_lsr drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3234 [inline]
 serial8250_console_fifo_write drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3257 [inline]
 serial8250_console_write+0x134c/0x1ba0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3342
 console_emit_next_record kernel/printk/printk.c:3111 [inline]
 console_flush_all+0x6f3/0xb10 kernel/printk/printk.c:3199
 __console_flush_and_unlock kernel/printk/printk.c:3258 [inline]
 console_unlock+0xbb/0x190 kernel/printk/printk.c:3298
 vprintk_emit+0x4c5/0x590 kernel/printk/printk.c:2423
 _printk+0xcf/0x120 kernel/printk/printk.c:2448
 __ext4_msg+0x20a/0x2a0 fs/ext4/super.c:992
 ext4_parse_param+0x3b3/0x24c0 fs/ext4/super.c:-1
 vfs_parse_fs_param+0x1a9/0x420 fs/fs_context.c:146
 vfs_parse_fs_qstr fs/fs_context.c:187 [inline]
 vfs_parse_fs_string include/linux/fs_context.h:142 [inline]
 vfs_parse_monolithic_sep+0x25d/0x320 fs/fs_context.c:227
 do_new_mount+0x2cb/0xa10 fs/namespace.c:3723
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4050 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4238 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x313/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4215
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f6d1ed9066a
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb a6 e8 de 1a 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f6d1fcb4e68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6d1fcb4ef0 RCX: 00007f6d1ed9066a
RDX: 0000200000000040 RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: 00007f6d1fcb4eb0
RBP: 0000200000000040 R08: 00007f6d1fcb4ef0 R09: 0000000000200044
R10: 0000000000200044 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000140
R13: 00007f6d1fcb4eb0 R14: 000000000000056a R15: 000000000000002c
 </TASK>

Crashes (13):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/08 13:06 upstream 971199ad2a0f 7e2882b3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2025/07/07 18:25 upstream d7b8f8e20813 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2025/05/07 22:16 upstream 707df3375124 350f4ffc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2025/03/24 11:57 upstream 586de92313fc 875573af .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2025/02/27 00:06 upstream 5394eea10651 6a8fcbc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2025/01/12 18:52 upstream b62cef9a5c67 6dbc6a9b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2024/12/31 14:05 upstream ccb98ccef0e5 d3ccff63 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2024/12/17 14:00 upstream f44d154d6e3d f93b2b55 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2024/12/16 01:55 upstream dccbe2047a5b 7cbfbb3a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2025/07/20 18:48 linux-next d086c886ceb9 7117feec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2025/07/19 20:27 linux-next d086c886ceb9 7117feec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2024/12/19 01:10 linux-next 7fa366f1b6e3 1432fc84 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
2025/03/09 22:13 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 77c95b8c7a16 163f510d .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 INFO: task hung in find_inode_fast
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.