INFO: task hung in vcs_open

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/03 15:31
Reported-by: syzbot+0b26cf09ae715791b68d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 58d, last: 22d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (14)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (5) serial 1 2 1305d 1309d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/04 04:45
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (9) kernel 1 11 506d 672d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/10 23:55
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (3) serial 1 1 2047d 2047d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/05/22 19:06
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open serial 1 32 2218d 2351d 0/29 closed as dup on 2020/08/05 10:53
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in vcs_open 1 1 29d 29d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/09/01 17:44
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (2) serial 1 1 2197d 2197d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/12/23 12:34
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (7) serial 1 1 927d 927d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/15 13:53
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in vcs_open 1 11 2154d 2466d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/03/07 01:31
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (10) prio:low kernel 1 83 36d 124d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/05/29 18:45
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (4) serial 1 2 1458d 1521d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/02 16:56
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in vcs_open 1 3 2311d 2395d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/30 10:12
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (6) serial 1 2 1078d 1142d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/17 08:03
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in vcs_open (2) 1 1 1437d 1437d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/02/22 05:12
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (8) nilfs serial 1 syz, C inconclusive 7 728d 734d 28/29 fixed on 2024/11/12 23:31

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.5.2117:13516 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.5.2117      state:D stack:27888 pid:13516 ppid: 11408 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4350 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0xbd/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2093
 __down_common+0x289/0x3b0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:228
 down+0x7e/0xd0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:63
 console_lock+0x29/0x70 kernel/printk/printk.c:2557
 vcs_open+0x59/0xc0 drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:763
 chrdev_open+0x585/0x5f0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x7f7/0xf90 fs/open.c:826
 do_open fs/namei.c:3659 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2718/0x2fb0 fs/namei.c:3793
 do_filp_open+0x1df/0x400 fs/namei.c:3820
 do_sys_openat2+0x14b/0x500 fs/open.c:1255
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1271 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1287 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1282 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1282
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f48cb46d159
RSP: 002b:00007f48c96c5028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f48cb6f4fa0 RCX: 00007f48cb46d159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000001080 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f48cb50403b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f48cb6f5038 R14: 00007f48cb6f4fa0 R15: 00007ffd92284a38
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/27:
 #0: ffffffff8c31ef60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x0/0x30
2 locks held by getty/3950:
 #0: ffff88802c966098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:252
 #1: ffffc900026562e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x594/0x1a50 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2158
1 lock held by syz-executor/4720:
5 locks held by syz.8.1311/10232:
3 locks held by syz.1.3413/18254:
2 locks held by syz.0.3644/18914:
3 locks held by syz.2.3693/19048:

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 27 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+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:148 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:212 [inline]
 watchdog+0xe1b/0xe60 kernel/hung_task.c:369
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/08 19:30 linux-5.15.y 0996e0926f6b 243b72f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/08/27 11:54 linux-5.15.y 945fa863f02c 69a01293 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/08/20 22:36 linux-5.15.y 0eb903b5b519 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/08/17 20:52 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 905244d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/08/17 13:15 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 905244d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/08/17 06:22 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/08/15 06:09 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/08/03 15:30 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 6b7c9f71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in vcs_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.