INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/04 22:42
Reported-by: syzbot+f6f6839e83d0831a77a9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d00h, last: 1h08m
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 562 1h33m 625d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/11/23 20:42
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access 1 syz, C 18 47m 5d22h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/05 00:11
upstream INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access (2) ext4 1 1 811d 811d 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 1712d 1712d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/02/08 09:40
android-6-12 INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access 1 syz 4 18h37m 9d04h 0/1 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2026/08/01 18:31
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access 1 syz, C 21 59m 6d00h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/04 22:50

Sample crash report:
INFO: task kworker/u4:2:42 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/u4:2    state:D stack:23472 pid:42    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-8:0)
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6775
 io_schedule+0x80/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:9024
 bit_wait_io+0x11/0xd0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:209
 __wait_on_bit+0x9f/0x2c0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:49
 out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x13c/0x190 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:64
 wait_on_bit_io include/linux/wait_bit.h:101 [inline]
 do_get_write_access+0x5c9/0xe00 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1096
 jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x10c/0x140 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1231
 __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x208/0x6d0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:241
 ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used+0x1c3/0x14b0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:4036
 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x105b/0x42f0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:6272
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1811/0x68c0 fs/ext4/extents.c:4416
 ext4_map_blocks+0x9db/0x1a90 fs/ext4/inode.c:654
 mpage_map_one_extent fs/ext4/inode.c:2205 [inline]
 mpage_map_and_submit_extent fs/ext4/inode.c:2258 [inline]
 ext4_do_writepages+0x1463/0x3990 fs/ext4/inode.c:2721
 ext4_writepages+0x1dd/0x350 fs/ext4/inode.c:2810
 do_writepages+0x351/0x590 mm/page-writeback.c:2575
 __writeback_single_inode+0x14e/0xee0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1686
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x813/0x1020 fs/fs-writeback.c:1977
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x114/0x240 fs/fs-writeback.c:2048
 wb_writeback+0x472/0xbe0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2158
 wb_check_old_data_flush fs/fs-writeback.c:2262 [inline]
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2315 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0xad7/0xe60 fs/fs-writeback.c:2343
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
INFO: task syz.0.153:6070 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.0.153       state:D stack:27560 pid:6070  ppid:5892   flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6775
 io_schedule+0x80/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:9024
 bit_wait_io+0x11/0xd0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:209
 __wait_on_bit+0x9f/0x2c0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:49
 out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x13c/0x190 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:64
 wait_on_bit_io include/linux/wait_bit.h:101 [inline]
 do_get_write_access+0x5c9/0xe00 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1096
 jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x10c/0x140 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1231
 __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x208/0x6d0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:241
 ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x205/0x2a0 fs/ext4/inode.c:5933
 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x13f/0x6d0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6107
 ext4_dirty_inode+0xcb/0x110 fs/ext4/inode.c:6144
 __mark_inode_dirty+0x2cc/0xc90 fs/fs-writeback.c:2522
 generic_update_time fs/inode.c:1981 [inline]
 inode_update_time fs/inode.c:1994 [inline]
 __file_update_time fs/inode.c:2180 [inline]
 file_update_time+0x187/0x1a0 fs/inode.c:2210
 ext4_page_mkwrite+0x1f9/0x11a0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6262
 do_page_mkwrite+0x153/0x3f0 mm/memory.c:2951
 do_shared_fault mm/memory.c:4717 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4779 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:3689 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5047 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5188 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1a2c/0x4a50 mm/memory.c:5353
 do_user_addr_fault+0x736/0x12d0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1371
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1463 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x64/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1516
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0033:0x7f011686ba23
RSP: 002b:00007fffff86eab0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 000000000003fde8 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000001b2cf24000 RSI: 0000000000040000 RDI: 00007f0116be0708
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fffff86ed40
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/29:
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x55/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6633
6 locks held by kworker/u4:2/42:
 #0: ffff888140058938 ((wq_completion)writeback){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #0: ffff888140058938 ((wq_completion)writeback){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #1: ffffc90000b2fd00 ((work_completion)(&(&wb->dwork)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90000b2fd00 ((work_completion)(&(&wb->dwork)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #2: ffff88814e5380e0 (&type->s_umount_key#31){++++}-{3:3}, at: super_trylock_shared+0x20/0xf0 fs/super.c:607
 #3: ffff88814e53ac58 (&sbi->s_writepages_rwsem){++++}-{0:0}, at: ext4_writepages_down_read fs/ext4/ext4.h:1768 [inline]
 #3: ffff88814e53ac58 (&sbi->s_writepages_rwsem){++++}-{0:0}, at: ext4_writepages+0x1a4/0x350 fs/ext4/inode.c:2809
 #4: ffff88814e53c990 (jbd2_handle){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_this_handle+0x1f3f/0x2170 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:448
 #5: ffff8880771bc888 (&ei->i_data_sem){++++}-{3:3}, at: ext4_map_blocks+0x918/0x1a90 fs/ext4/inode.c:647
2 locks held by getty/5536:
 #0: ffff88802c8f00a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc900032832f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x428/0x1370 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2217
2 locks held by kworker/0:4/5819:
 #0: ffff888017c72d38 ((wq_completion)rcu_gp){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #0: ffff888017c72d38 ((wq_completion)rcu_gp){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #1: ffffc900046a7d00 ((work_completion)(&rew->rew_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #1: ffffc900046a7d00 ((work_completion)(&rew->rew_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
3 locks held by syz.0.153/6070:
 #0: ffff88807c884da0 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: mmap_read_trylock include/linux/mmap_lock.h:165 [inline]
 #0: ffff88807c884da0 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: get_mmap_lock_carefully mm/memory.c:5380 [inline]
 #0: ffff88807c884da0 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x32/0x2f0 mm/memory.c:5440
 #1: ffff88814e538510 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: __sb_start_write include/linux/fs.h:1633 [inline]
 #1: ffff88814e538510 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: sb_start_pagefault include/linux/fs.h:1737 [inline]
 #1: ffff88814e538510 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ext4_page_mkwrite+0x1e2/0x11a0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6261
 #2: ffff88814e53c990 (jbd2_handle){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_this_handle+0x1f3f/0x2170 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:448
2 locks held by dhcpcd/6098:
 #0: ffff888021662130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1780 [inline]
 #0: ffff888021662130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: packet_do_bind+0x33/0xd40 net/packet/af_packet.c:3264
 #1: ffffffff8d137778 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: exp_funnel_lock kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:292 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8d137778 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x306/0x880 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:1004

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NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 29 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+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a6/0x3e0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x2f0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:160 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:222 [inline]
 watchdog+0xf59/0xfa0 kernel/hung_task.c:379
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 2939 Comm: kworker/u4:10 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work
RIP: 0010:rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
RIP: 0010:ieee80211_sta_active_ibss+0xc8/0x320 net/mac80211/ibss.c:657
Code: eb 05 e8 9b 30 86 f7 e8 f6 c1 70 f7 48 8d 1d 00 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 a0 1d 13 8d 31 f6 31 d2 b9 02 00 00 00 45 31 c0 45 31 c9 53 <e8> 03 44 67 f7 48 83 c4 08 e8 6a aa 8b 00 89 c5 31 ff 89 c6 e8 0f
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000bd1f970 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffffff8a0140f1 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff8d131da0
RBP: ffffc9000bd1fb60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520017a3f29 R12: ffff88807a881838
R13: ffff88807f644d00 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff88807a880e80
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffd081a3748 CR3: 000000001f36c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ieee80211_sta_merge_ibss net/mac80211/ibss.c:1309 [inline]
 ieee80211_ibss_work+0x872/0x1100 net/mac80211/ibss.c:1712
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x228/0x260 net/wireless/core.c:437
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Crashes (27):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/09 05:07 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 09:03 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e cd5b1963 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/10 21:54 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/10 21:53 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/10 21:49 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/10 21:49 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/09 22:15 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/09 22:14 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/09 22:13 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/08 07:16 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/08 07:13 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/08 07:13 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/07 16:32 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/07 16:32 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/07 06:32 linux-6.6.y 80dfb0405055 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 21:59 linux-6.6.y 80dfb0405055 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 21:59 linux-6.6.y 80dfb0405055 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 17:38 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 17:35 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/06 17:35 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/05 22:09 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/05 22:06 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/05 05:34 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e 52aa2820 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/04 23:24 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/04 22:43 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/04 22:42 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
2026/08/04 22:41 linux-6.6.y aa0e49877a2e d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.