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INFO: task hung in do_task_dead (7)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/17 15:38
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 115d, last: 92d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
a79e5719-8185-4033-855a-6463d36424c2 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: task hung in do_task_dead (7) 2026/05/23 12:11 2026/05/23 12:11 2026/05/23 12:55 c69befb30ac10e158cc9d1557b508ee3f0eca1de

			
		
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in do_task_dead (4) kernel 1 1 1184d 1184d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/20 16:27
android-6-12 INFO: task hung in do_task_dead 1 1 321d 321d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/30 20:56
upstream INFO: task hung in do_task_dead kernel 1 1 2643d 2643d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/09/21 14:08
upstream INFO: task hung in do_task_dead (6) kernel 1 1 420d 420d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/24 12:34
upstream INFO: task hung in do_task_dead (3) mtd 1 2 2272d 2273d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/06/28 13:10
upstream INFO: task hung in do_task_dead (2) kernel 1 1 2390d 2390d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/03/01 19:02
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in do_task_dead 1 1 2137d 2137d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/12/09 18:36
upstream INFO: task hung in do_task_dead (5) kernel 1 2 634d 675d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/21 21:23

Sample crash report:
INFO: task udevd:5841 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:udevd           state:R
  running task     stack:22200 pid:5841  tgid:5841  ppid:5192   task_flags:0x40054c flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5295 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15dd/0x52d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6908
 do_task_dead+0xc6/0xe0 kernel/sched/core.c:6929
 do_exit+0x1b2a/0x23c0 kernel/exit.c:1019
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1118
 get_signal+0x1284/0x1330 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x830 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x86/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f5f0fea7407
RSP: 002b:00007ffe77572390 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 00007f5f1057f880 RCX: 00007f5f0fea7407
RDX: 00000000000a0800 RSI: 00005586af89c500 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00005586af887910 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00005586af89bba0
R13: 00005586af895190 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00005586af89bba0
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/31:
 #0: ffffffff8e75e420 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e75e420 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e75e420 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
2 locks held by getty/5583:
 #0: ffff888036d420a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc9000332b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x45c/0x13c0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2211
1 lock held by udevd/5840:
 #0: ffff888026ac3358 (&disk->open_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: bdev_open+0xe0/0xd30 block/bdev.c:961
3 locks held by kworker/u8:10/7499:
 #0: ffff88813fe4c148 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3250 [inline]
 #0: ffff88813fe4c148 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x9ea/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3358
 #1: ffffc90002e67c40 ((linkwatch_work).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3251 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90002e67c40 ((linkwatch_work).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa25/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3358
 #2: ffffffff8fbccfc8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: linkwatch_event+0xe/0x60 net/core/link_watch.c:313
2 locks held by syz.2.3518/18537:
 #0: ffffffff8fbccfc8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: tun_detach drivers/net/tun.c:634 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8fbccfc8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: tun_chr_close+0x3e/0x1c0 drivers/net/tun.c:3436
 #1: ffffffff8e7646b8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: exp_funnel_lock kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:311 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8e7646b8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x2d0/0x770 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:961

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NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x274/0x2d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x300 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:161 [inline]
 __sys_info lib/sys_info.c:157 [inline]
 sys_info+0x135/0x170 lib/sys_info.c:165
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:346 [inline]
 watchdog+0xfd9/0x1030 kernel/hung_task.c:515
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 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: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:63
Code: ee 6c 02 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 43 62 1b 00 fb f4 <e9> fc e9 02 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffffff8e407dc0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 000000000022e1db RBX: ffffffff819a8c8d RCX: 0000000080000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8def5566 RDI: ffffffff8c27b580
RBP: ffffffff8e407eb0 R08: ffff8880b863395b R09: 1ffff110170c672b
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170c672c R12: ffffffff901196b0
R13: 1ffffffff1c929d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125460000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005586af89e520 CR3: 0000000075f44000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/kernel/process.c:766 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x72/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1bd/0x500 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 rest_init+0x2de/0x300 init/main.c:760
 start_kernel+0x385/0x3d0 init/main.c:1210
 x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:310
 x86_64_start_kernel+0x143/0x1c0 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:291
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x147
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/19 15:34 net 55dc632ab2ac bd6dcb30 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in do_task_dead
2026/02/23 21:15 net d4f687fbbce4 305c0ec5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in do_task_dead
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.