INFO: task hung in hci_unregister_dev

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/05 07:37
Reported-by: syzbot+7bd1e41e53a7d70b3df7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 9d19h, last: 5d07h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in hci_unregister_dev bluetooth 1 1 583d 583d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/08 16:17
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in hci_unregister_dev 1 1 10d 10d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/05 00:46
upstream INFO: task can't die in hci_unregister_dev bluetooth 1 1 1705d 1701d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/02/11 04:46

Sample crash report:
INFO: task getty:3944 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:getty           state:D stack:22288 pid: 3944 ppid:     1 flags:0x00004002
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
 do_wait_for_common+0x295/0x460 kernel/sched/completion.c:85
 __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]
 wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:117 [inline]
 wait_for_completion+0x48/0x60 kernel/sched/completion.c:138
 __flush_work+0x15a/0x210 kernel/workqueue.c:3094
 __cancel_work_timer+0x3f4/0x560 kernel/workqueue.c:3181
 hci_unregister_dev+0x163/0x590 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4061
 hci_uart_tty_close+0x268/0x330 drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c:575
 tty_ldisc_reinit+0xe4/0x460 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:679
 tty_ldisc_hangup+0x360/0x4a0 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:745
 __tty_hangup+0x44e/0x670 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:639
 disassociate_ctty+0x38d/0x860 drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c:275
 do_exit+0x5f9/0x2110 kernel/exit.c:888
 do_group_exit+0x12c/0x2f0 kernel/exit.c:1004
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1015 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1013 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3b/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1013
 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: 0033:0x7f0c8840e6c5
RSP: 002b:00007fff3dcb1048 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0c8850ffe8 RCX: 00007f0c8840e6c5
RDX: 00000000000000e7 RSI: ffffffffffffff88 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 00007fff3dcb0fd8 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007fff3dcb0e70 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f0c8850e680 R15: 00007f0c88510000
 </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/3944:
 #0: ffff88814d1841c0 (&tty->legacy_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __tty_hangup+0xc0/0x670 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:599
 #1: ffff88814d184098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: __tty_ldisc_lock drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:300 [inline]
 #1: ffff88814d184098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_lock+0x68/0xb0 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:324
3 locks held by kworker/u5:2/4337:
 #0: ffff88807b877938 ((wq_completion)hci1){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x75c/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
 #1: ffffc90002f9fd00 ((work_completion)(&hdev->power_on)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x79e/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2285
 #2: ffff88807dc413f0 (&hdev->req_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: hci_dev_do_open+0xa4/0x12a0 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:1464
1 lock held by syz.0.683/5944:
 #0: ffff88814d1841c0 (&tty->legacy_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_lock_interruptible+0xa0/0x130 drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c:31

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NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 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>
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 151 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0xc/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
Code: c0 c3 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff c3 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff c3 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc b0 01 48 85 f6 0f 84 ac 01 00 00 55 <41> 57 41 56 41 54 53 49 89 f8 49 01 f0 0f 82 0e 02 00 00 49 89 f8
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007850 EFLAGS: 00000002
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00000000000006ae RCX: ffffffff815ce5b8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff901ee190
RBP: ffffc90000007a90 R08: ffffffff901ee197 R09: 1ffffffff203dc32
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203dc33 R12: ffff888018ff46e0
R13: ffff888018ff3b80 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffff888018ff46c0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555577090a38 CR3: 000000007e4fb000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
 test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:134 [inline]
 hlock_class kernel/locking/lockdep.c:197 [inline]
 check_wait_context kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4687 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0x5e8/0x7b50 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4962
 lock_acquire+0x19e/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5623
 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:142 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock+0x2a/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:154
 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:364 [inline]
 rps_lock net/core/dev.c:228 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x48c/0x770 net/core/dev.c:6551
 __napi_poll+0xbb/0x430 net/core/dev.c:7101
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7168 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x522/0xa80 net/core/dev.c:7258
 handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 do_softirq+0x142/0x210 kernel/softirq.c:477
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x180/0x1c0 kernel/softirq.c:401
 rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:810 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1b64/0x2e50 net/core/dev.c:4341
 batadv_send_skb_packet+0x360/0x580 net/batman-adv/send.c:108
 batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:396 [inline]
 batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:424 [inline]
 batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x657/0x800 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1793
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/09 19:28 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in hci_unregister_dev
2026/08/09 06:47 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in hci_unregister_dev
2026/08/06 21:27 linux-5.15.y 9c7634c60784 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in hci_unregister_dev
2026/08/05 07:37 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 52aa2820 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in hci_unregister_dev
2026/08/05 07:37 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 52aa2820 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in hci_unregister_dev
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.