INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/05 00:11
Reported-by: syzbot+9e3d85789d3996cc829c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 13d, last: 2d22h
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access (3) prio:low ext4 1 syz, C error 626 8h11m 632d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/11/23 20:42
upstream INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access (2) ext4 1 1 818d 818d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/19 05:35
upstream INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access ext4 1 1 1720d 1720d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 09:40
android-6-12 INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access 1 syz, C 9 2d09h 16d 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2026/08/01 18:31
linux-6.6 INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access origin:upstream 1 syz, C 48 1h11m 13d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/04 22:42
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access 1 syz, C 34 1h07m 13d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/04 22:50

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.0.251:4688 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.0.251       state:D stack:27632 pid:4688  ppid:4390   flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5246 [inline]
 __schedule+0x107f/0x4030 kernel/sched/core.c:6563
 schedule+0xb9/0x180 kernel/sched/core.c:6639
 io_schedule+0x7c/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:8799
 bit_wait_io+0xd/0xc0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:209
 __wait_on_bit+0x9b/0x2c0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:49
 out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x138/0x190 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:64
 wait_on_bit_io include/linux/wait_bit.h:101 [inline]
 do_get_write_access+0x605/0xf20 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1115
 jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x108/0x140 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1250
 __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x24b/0x6e0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:235
 ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x201/0x290 fs/ext4/inode.c:5945
 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x161/0x760 fs/ext4/inode.c:6119
 ext4_dirty_inode+0xbf/0x100 fs/ext4/inode.c:6156
 __mark_inode_dirty+0x2e7/0xe80 fs/fs-writeback.c:2500
 generic_update_time fs/inode.c:1946 [inline]
 inode_update_time fs/inode.c:1959 [inline]
 __file_update_time+0x21d/0x240 fs/inode.c:2147
 file_update_time+0x2f3/0x370 fs/inode.c:2178
 ext4_page_mkwrite+0x1a9/0x10d0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6274
 do_page_mkwrite+0x16b/0x5c0 mm/memory.c:3009
 do_shared_fault mm/memory.c:4694 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4762 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5029 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5171 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x199c/0x3d40 mm/memory.c:5292
 do_user_addr_fault+0x58e/0xb20 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1338
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1429 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x60/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1482
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0033:0x7f62e946ba23
RSP: 002b:00007ffc178c6140 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 000000000003fde8 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000001b2f124000 RSI: 0000000000040000 RDI: 00007f62e97e0708
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007ffc178c63d0
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by rcu_tasks_kthre/12:
 #0: ffffffff8cb2e4f0 (rcu_tasks.tasks_gp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rcu_tasks_one_gp+0x33/0xef0 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:517
1 lock held by rcu_tasks_trace/13:
 #0: ffffffff8cb2ed10 (rcu_tasks_trace.tasks_gp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rcu_tasks_one_gp+0x33/0xef0 kernel/rcu/tasks.h:517
1 lock held by khungtaskd/28:
 #0: ffffffff8cb2db60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:350 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8cb2db60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:791 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8cb2db60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x51/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6527
7 locks held by kworker/u4:3/47:
 #0: ffff888141689138 ((wq_completion)writeback){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7b4/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2267
 #1: ffffc90000b87d00 ((work_completion)(&(&wb->dwork)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7b4/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2267
 #2: ffff88814d3800e0 (&type->s_umount_key#32){++++}-{3:3}, at: trylock_super+0x1c/0xf0 fs/super.c:415
 #3: ffff88814d382c18 (&sbi->s_writepages_rwsem){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ext4_writepages+0x213/0x2e70 fs/ext4/inode.c:2717
 #4: ffff88814d384990 (jbd2_handle){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_this_handle+0x2014/0x2240 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:463
 #5: ffff888074ad8288 (&ei->i_data_sem){++++}-{3:3}, at: ext4_map_blocks+0x914/0x1a90 fs/ext4/inode.c:674
 #6: ffffe8ffffd33e68 (&lg->lg_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ext4_mb_group_or_file fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5306 [inline]
 #6: ffffe8ffffd33e68 (&lg->lg_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ext4_mb_initialize_context+0x7f0/0xb80 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5349
2 locks held by getty/4032:
 #0: ffff88814d05b098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:244
 #1: ffffc9000327b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x41e/0x1360 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2198
3 locks held by syz.0.251/4688:
 #0: ffff88803022f1d8 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: mmap_read_trylock include/linux/mmap_lock.h:136 [inline]
 #0: ffff88803022f1d8 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: get_mmap_lock_carefully mm/memory.c:5320 [inline]
 #0: ffff88803022f1d8 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x2e/0x2f0 mm/memory.c:5382
 #1: ffff88814d380558 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: __sb_start_write include/linux/fs.h:1891 [inline]
 #1: ffff88814d380558 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: sb_start_pagefault include/linux/fs.h:1995 [inline]
 #1: ffff88814d380558 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ext4_page_mkwrite+0x192/0x10d0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6273
 #2: ffff88814d384990 (jbd2_handle){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_this_handle+0x2014/0x2240 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:463
2 locks held by syz-executor/4694:
 #0: ffff88814d380460 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write+0x3d/0x90 fs/namespace.c:402
 #1: ffff88807498ca38 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#3/1){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: inode_lock_nested include/linux/fs.h:793 [inline]
 #1: ffff88807498ca38 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#3/1){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: filename_create+0x20b/0x450 fs/namei.c:3884

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 28 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3e6/0x460 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x1d4/0x450 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:148 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:220 [inline]
 watchdog+0xf0e/0xf50 kernel/hung_task.c:377
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 1127 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound toggle_allocation_gate
RIP: 0010:insn_get_length arch/x86/lib/insn.c:707 [inline]
RIP: 0010:insn_decode+0x37e/0x520 arch/x86/lib/insn.c:747
Code: 0f b6 03 0f b6 d8 31 ff 89 de e8 5d e6 5d f7 84 db 74 4f e8 f4 e3 5d f7 31 c0 eb 50 e8 eb e3 5d f7 eb 44 e8 e4 e3 5d f7 eb 3d <48> 89 df e8 1a dc ff ff 89 c5 31 ff 89 c6 e8 2f e7 5d f7 85 ed 74
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004f0f8e8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff8a2448f6 RBX: ffffc90004f0f960 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888026ef1e00 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffc90004f0f9b7 R09: ffffc90004f0f960
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520009e1f37 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff920009e1f36 R14: ffffc90004f0f9b2 R15: ffffc90004f0f99c
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055a2452da168 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_jump_entry_size arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:24 [inline]
 __jump_label_patch+0x105/0x450 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:45
 arch_jump_label_transform_queue+0x48/0xd0 arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:137
 __jump_label_update+0x18a/0x3c0 kernel/jump_label.c:510
 static_key_disable_cpuslocked+0xc1/0x1a0 kernel/jump_label.c:237
 static_key_disable+0x16/0x20 kernel/jump_label.c:245
 toggle_allocation_gate+0x3d1/0x470 mm/kfence/core.c:835
 process_one_work+0x8ab/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaf5/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>

Crashes (31):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/11 10:54 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 508909ea .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/10 10:04 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 13:19 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 cd5b1963 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/15 05:18 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/15 05:18 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/14 14:24 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 6f9b3e89 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/13 20:47 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e b13552fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/13 20:47 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e b13552fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/12 21:11 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 359b2492 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/12 21:11 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 359b2492 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/12 13:10 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e f8d35649 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/12 04:39 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e f8d35649 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/12 04:39 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e f8d35649 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/11 16:21 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 71790083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/11 16:21 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 71790083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/10 22:16 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/10 22:16 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/08 16:24 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/08 07:35 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/08 07:35 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/08 07:35 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/08 07:35 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/07 13:32 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/07 13:31 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 17:40 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 17:38 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 17:38 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 00:21 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/05 05:55 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 52aa2820 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/05 02:06 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/05 00:11 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.