INFO: task hung in worker_thread

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/11 08:49
Reported-by: syzbot+55acf31bf76700235765@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 81d, last: 8d06h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in worker_thread 1 1 1726d 1726d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/08 06:12
upstream INFO: task hung in worker_thread (3) serial 1 1 1318d 1318d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/20 16:01
upstream INFO: task hung in worker_thread (5) kernel 1 syz, C done done 49 383d 729d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/21 10:04
upstream INFO: task hung in worker_thread (6) prio:normal kernel 1 syz, C error 12 35d 239d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/02 18:05
upstream INFO: task hung in worker_thread (4) kernel 1 1 1003d 1003d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/31 02:07
android-6-12 INFO: task hung in worker_thread 1 2 445d 453d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/10 04:19
upstream INFO: task hung in worker_thread (2) fs 1 1 2078d 2078d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/05/17 11:26
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in worker_thread 1 1 694d 694d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/12 21:25
android-6-12 INFO: task hung in worker_thread (2) 1 1 340d 340d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/23 01:25
upstream INFO: task hung in worker_thread fs 1 1 2244d 2244d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/11/06 03:23

Sample crash report:
INFO: task kworker/0:2:788 blocked for more than 152 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/0:2     state:R  running task     stack:26008 pid:788   ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
Workqueue:  0x0 (events)
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
 worker_thread+0xc17/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2830
 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>

Showing all locks held in the system:
2 locks held by kworker/0:0/8:
 #0: ffff8880b8e3c258 (&rq->__lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x29/0x130 kernel/sched/core.c:559
 #1: ffff8880b8e28a00 (psi_seq){-.-.}-{0:0}, at: psi_sched_switch kernel/sched/stats.h:189 [inline]
 #1: ffff8880b8e28a00 (psi_seq){-.-.}-{0:0}, at: __schedule+0x21d3/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6696
1 lock held by khungtaskd/28:
 #0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x55/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6635
2 locks held by kworker/1:2/1154:
 #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: ffffc90004867d00 ((work_completion)(&rew->rew_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90004867d00 ((work_completion)(&rew->rew_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
2 locks held by dhcpcd/5436:
 #0: ffff88801a3fd690 (nlk_cb_mutex-ROUTE){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __netlink_dump_start+0xf4/0x7a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2341
 #1: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: netlink_dump+0x77c/0xec0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2268
2 locks held by getty/5532:
 #0: ffff88802cb360a0 (&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
1 lock held by syz-executor/5774:
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tun_detach drivers/net/tun.c:698 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tun_chr_close+0x41/0x1c0 drivers/net/tun.c:3525
3 locks held by kworker/1:4/5816:
3 locks held by kworker/0:6/5830:
 #0: ffff888017c72538 ((wq_completion)events_power_efficient){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #0: ffff888017c72538 ((wq_completion)events_power_efficient){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #1: ffffc90004a77d00 ((crda_timeout).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90004a77d00 ((crda_timeout).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #2: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: crda_timeout_work+0x15/0x50 net/wireless/reg.c:539
2 locks held by syz.1.8/5854:
 #0: ffffffff8e3c3950 (pernet_ops_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: copy_net_ns+0x347/0x530 net/core/net_namespace.c:520
 #1: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ip_tunnel_init_net+0x2d2/0x7c0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:1103
3 locks held by syz.0.9/5858:
1 lock held by syz.3.10/5863:
 #0: ffffffff8d137ab8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: exp_funnel_lock kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:324 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d137ab8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x3da/0x880 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:1004
4 locks held by kworker/u5:6/5922:
 #0: ffff8880233ed938 ((wq_completion)hci7){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #0: ffff8880233ed938 ((wq_completion)hci7){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #1: ffffc90004747d00 ((work_completion)(&hdev->cmd_sync_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90004747d00 ((work_completion)(&hdev->cmd_sync_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #2: ffff8880500e4e70 (&hdev->req_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: hci_cmd_sync_work+0x1cc/0x380 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:332
 #3: ffff8880500e40b8 (&hdev->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: hci_abort_conn_sync+0x864/0xe60 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5786
1 lock held by dhcpcd/5930:
 #0: ffff88805e8bdc20 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:804 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805e8bdc20 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __sock_release net/socket.c:658 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805e8bdc20 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: sock_close+0x82/0x210 net/socket.c:1421
2 locks held by dhcpcd/5932:
 #0: ffff88805ad1c130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1780 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805ad1c130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: packet_do_bind+0x33/0xd40 net/packet/af_packet.c:3283
 #1: ffffffff8d137ab8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: exp_funnel_lock kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:324 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8d137ab8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x3da/0x880 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:1004
1 lock held by dhcpcd/5934:
 #0: ffff88805ad24130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1780 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805ad24130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: packet_do_bind+0x33/0xd40 net/packet/af_packet.c:3283
1 lock held by syz-executor/5936:
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnl_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:78 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7ed/0xf90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6481
1 lock held by dhcpcd/5935:
 #0: ffff88805ad22130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1780 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805ad22130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: packet_do_bind+0x33/0xd40 net/packet/af_packet.c:3283
1 lock held by dhcpcd/5939:
 #0: ffff88802493e130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1780 [inline]
 #0: ffff88802493e130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: packet_do_bind+0x33/0xd40 net/packet/af_packet.c:3283
1 lock held by dhcpcd/5940:
 #0: ffff88807abac130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1780 [inline]
 #0: ffff88807abac130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: packet_do_bind+0x33/0xd40 net/packet/af_packet.c:3283

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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+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 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 5858 Comm: syz.0.9 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:24 [inline]
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x8f/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5727
Code: 70 80 96 68 81 4c 8d 64 24 60 49 c1 ec 03 48 b8 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 4b 89 04 3c 43 c7 44 3c 08 f8 f3 f3 f3 e9 bd 02 00 00 <65> 8b 05 f6 20 9b 7e 83 f8 08 0f 83 a0 01 00 00 41 89 c6 c1 e8 06
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001f0b40 EFLAGS: 00000086
RAX: ce54584cd6fc2900 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ce54584cd6fc2900
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b1d3b80 RDI: ffffffff8b1d3b40
RBP: ffffc900001f0c48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1d1862e R12: 1ffff9200003e174
R13: ffffffff975adba8 R14: ffff88802fad8c98 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f2b03fcf6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000968000 CR3: 000000005b8ae000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xb4/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 debug_object_deactivate+0x67/0x380 lib/debugobjects.c:810
 debug_hrtimer_deactivate kernel/time/hrtimer.c:455 [inline]
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1722 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x2cc/0xc10 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1818
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x39d/0x980 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1880
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1077 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xfb/0x3b0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1094
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x9f/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:memset_orig+0x15/0xac arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S:52
Code: f0 48 89 d1 f3 aa 4c 89 c8 c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 66 0f 1f 00 49 89 fa 40 0f b6 ce 48 b8 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 <48> 0f af c1 41 89 f9 41 83 e1 07 75 6c 48 89 d1 48 c1 e9 06 74 35
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004aef290 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0101010101010101 RBX: ffffc90004aef3a0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90004aef3b8
RBP: ffffc90004aef3b8 R08: ffffc90004aef3c7 R09: 1ffff9200095de78
R10: ffffc90004aef3b8 R11: fffff5200095de79 R12: ffffc90004aef910
R13: ffffc90004aef368 R14: ffffffff887cdc9c R15: dffffc0000000000
 unwind_next_frame+0x1628/0x2990 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:592
 arch_stack_walk+0x144/0x190 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xaa/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x125/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:128
 __set_page_owner+0x1d/0x60 mm/page_owner.c:192
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1582
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1589 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2181/0x22a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3221
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4501
 skb_page_frag_refill+0x179/0x310 net/core/sock.c:2955
 sk_page_frag_refill+0x4c/0xe0 net/core/sock.c:2975
 kcm_sendmsg+0x681/0x27b0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:811
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x2dc/0x420 net/socket.c:1161
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f2b0319e159
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f2b03fcf028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2b03425fa0 RCX: 00007f2b0319e159
RDX: 00000000fffffdef RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f2b0323506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2b03426038 R14: 00007f2b03425fa0 R15: 00007ffe0e3e78e8
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/22 03:28 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: task hung in worker_thread
2026/07/11 08:48 linux-6.6.y da47cbc25466 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan-perf INFO: task hung in worker_thread
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.