INFO: task hung in xt_unregister_table_exit

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/26 05:18
Subsystems: netfilter
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 91d, last: 91d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
4ec01ac1 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: task hung in xt_unregister_table_exit 2026/05/29 23:33 2026/05/29 23:33 2026/05/30 00:32 6b4a8443

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.4.10626:16220 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.4.10626     state:D stack:21600 pid:16220 tgid:16210 ppid:6768   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5388 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1821/0x5740 kernel/sched/core.c:7189
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7268 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7283
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7340
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:726 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x7f7/0x1550 kernel/locking/mutex.c:820
 xt_unregister_table_exit+0x48/0x340 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1699
 ip6t_unregister_table_exit+0x2d/0x250 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1773
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:199 [inline]
 ops_undo_list+0x49f/0x940 net/core/net_namespace.c:252
 setup_net+0x2f0/0x340 net/core/net_namespace.c:462
 copy_net_ns+0x50e/0x730 net/core/net_namespace.c:579
 create_new_namespaces+0x3e7/0x6a0 kernel/nsproxy.c:132
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x149/0x190 kernel/nsproxy.c:234
 ksys_unshare+0x57d/0x9f0 kernel/fork.c:3243
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3317 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3315 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x50 kernel/fork.c:3315
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0f0019ce59
RSP: 002b:00007f0f0100d028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000110
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0f00415fa0 RCX: 00007f0f0019ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000062040200
RBP: 00007f0f00232d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0f00416038 R14: 00007f0f00415fa0 R15: 00007ffe6ae9dac8
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by kthreadd/2:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/30:
 #0: ffffffff8e95cca0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e95cca0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:838 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e95cca0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
2 locks held by kworker/u9:0/50:
 #0: ffff888026f27940 ((wq_completion)nbd1-recv){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3289 [inline]
 #0: ffff888026f27940 ((wq_completion)nbd1-recv){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa35/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 #1: ffffc90000ba7c40 ((work_completion)(&args->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3290 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90000ba7c40 ((work_completion)(&args->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa70/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
4 locks held by kworker/u8:9/3364:
2 locks held by kworker/u9:1/4949:
 #0: ffff888026f27940 ((wq_completion)nbd1-recv){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3289 [inline]
 #0: ffff888026f27940 ((wq_completion)nbd1-recv){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa35/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 #1: ffffc90010527c40 ((work_completion)(&args->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3290 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90010527c40 ((work_completion)(&args->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa70/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
3 locks held by klogd/4988:
3 locks held by udevd/4999:
3 locks held by crond/5371:
2 locks held by getty/5387:
 #0: ffff888031c790a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc900032332e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x45c/0x13a0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2211
3 locks held by sshd-session/5618:
2 locks held by syz-executor/5619:
2 locks held by kworker/u9:2/5636:
 #0: ffff88804996b140 ((wq_completion)nbd19-recv){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3289 [inline]
 #0: ffff88804996b140 ((wq_completion)nbd19-recv){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa35/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 #1: ffffc900047bfc40 ((work_completion)(&args->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3290 [inline]
 #1: ffffc900047bfc40 ((work_completion)(&args->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa70/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
2 locks held by kworker/u9:5/5642:
 #0: ffff888026f27940 ((wq_completion)nbd1-recv){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3289 [inline]
 #0: ffff888026f27940 ((wq_completion)nbd1-recv){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa35/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 #1: ffffc9000482fc40 ((work_completion)(&args->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3290 [inline]
 #1: ffffc9000482fc40 ((work_completion)(&args->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa70/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
2 locks held by kworker/u9:6/5645:

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/28 05:08 net-next 56ed77ff6022 4c36e7e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in xt_unregister_table_exit
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.