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INFO: task hung in con_install
Status:
upstream: reported on 2026/08/05 04:34
Reported-by: syzbot+ce3d57550812f3d39dac@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d18h, last: 4d18h
Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.5.2202:11595 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.5.2202 state:D stack:27784 pid:11595 ppid:11242 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
schedule_timeout+0xc1/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2144
___down_common kernel/locking/semaphore.c:229 [inline]
__down_common+0x30e/0x650 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:250
down+0x80/0xd0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:64
console_lock+0x145/0x1b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2686
con_install+0x98/0x720 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3331
tty_driver_install_tty drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1302 [inline]
tty_init_dev+0xd3/0x4c0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414
tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2080 [inline]
tty_open+0x7dd/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
chrdev_open+0x58c/0x600 fs/char_dev.c:414
do_dentry_open+0x880/0x14b0 fs/open.c:929
do_open fs/namei.c:3683 [inline]
path_openat+0x284f/0x3270 fs/namei.c:3844
do_filp_open+0x1f2/0x430 fs/namei.c:3871
do_sys_openat2+0x134/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1422
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1437 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1453 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1448 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1448
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: 0033:0x7f53ad15e84e
RSP: 002b:00007f53ae057b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f53ae0586c0 RCX: 00007f53ad15e84e
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f53ae057c00 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f53ad23500c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f53ad426038 R14: 00007f53ad425fa0 R15: 00007ffd4ae355d8
</TASK>
Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/28:
#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
2 locks held by kworker/u4:7/3431:
2 locks held by kworker/u4:10/4338:
3 locks held by kworker/u5:1/5086:
#0: ffff88805e5f2938 ((wq_completion)hci5){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
#0: ffff88805e5f2938 ((wq_completion)hci5){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
#1: ffffc9001032fd00 ((work_completion)(&hdev->cmd_sync_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
#1: ffffc9001032fd00 ((work_completion)(&hdev->cmd_sync_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
#2: ffff888053628e70 (&hdev->req_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: hci_cmd_sync_work+0x1cc/0x380 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:332
2 locks held by getty/5533:
#0: ffff8880319da0a0 (&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
6 locks held by syz.0.2130/11293:
2 locks held by kworker/0:8/11335:
#0: ffff888017c70938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
#0: ffff888017c70938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
#1: ffffc9000341fd00 (console_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
#1: ffffc9000341fd00 (console_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
2 locks held by syz.5.2202/11595:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
#1: ffff88807e53c1c0 (&tty->legacy_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_init_dev+0x74/0x4c0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1413
1 lock held by syz.6.2319/11934:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.7.2351/12028:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.4.2368/12071:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.8.2647/13003:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
1 lock held by syz.9.2684/13108:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.3.2718/13241:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
1 lock held by syz.1.2721/13259:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
4 locks held by syz-executor/13461:
1 lock held by syz.5.2773/13545:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2044 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x211/0xcc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
1 lock held by syz.6.2778/13597:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.0.2813/13778:
#0: ffffffff8d8b7948 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd0/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
=============================================
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>
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.