INFO: task hung in con_install

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/25 09:43
Reported-by: syzbot+e606af51f0c2a8f3978c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 2d18h
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 INFO: task hung in con_install 1 1 4d17h 4d17h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/08/05 04:34
upstream INFO: task hung in con_install (2) serial 1 1 1103d 1103d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/31 16:25
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in con_install 1 1 2304d 2304d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/08/16 15:03
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in con_install (2) 1 1 2249d 2249d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/10/09 22:35
upstream INFO: task hung in con_install (3) prio:high kernel 1 101 11h39m 208d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/01/13 11:30
upstream INFO: task hung in con_install serial 1 6 2224d 2406d 0/29 closed as dup on 2020/08/16 15:20
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in con_install 1 1 2383d 2383d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/05/29 01:06
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in con_install 1 1 9d18h 9d18h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/31 03:32

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.5.2719:13384 blocked for more than 144 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.5.2719      state:D stack:27568 pid:13384 ppid: 10900 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
 con_install+0x94/0x720 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3381
 tty_driver_install_tty drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1317 [inline]
 tty_init_dev+0xbb/0x470 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1431
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2100 [inline]
 tty_open+0x7e8/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
 chrdev_open+0x585/0x5f0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x7f7/0xf90 fs/open.c:826
 do_open fs/namei.c:3616 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2718/0x2fb0 fs/namei.c:3750
 do_filp_open+0x1df/0x400 fs/namei.c:3777
 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: 0033:0x7f6a8010a90e
RSP: 002b:00007f6a7e3a1b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6a7e3a26c0 RCX: 00007f6a8010a90e
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f6a7e3a1c00 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f6a801e1024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6a803d2038 R14: 00007f6a803d1fa0 R15: 00007ffeda0859f8
 </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
1 lock held by khugepaged/33:
 #0: ffffffff8c3b4788 (lock#4){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __lru_add_drain_all+0x68/0xac0 mm/swap.c:782
2 locks held by getty/3942:
 #0: ffff88814cab7098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:252
 #1: ffffc90002cf62e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x594/0x1a50 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2158
3 locks held by syz-executor/4174:
 #0: ffff88807bc0ea28 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: mmap_read_trylock include/linux/mmap_lock.h:136 [inline]
 #0: ffff88807bc0ea28 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: do_user_addr_fault+0x2bb/0xc90 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1296
 #1: ffff88814d074558 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: __sb_start_write include/linux/fs.h:1811 [inline]
 #1: ffff88814d074558 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: sb_start_pagefault include/linux/fs.h:1910 [inline]
 #1: ffff88814d074558 (sb_pagefaults){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ext4_page_mkwrite+0x1a5/0x1250 fs/ext4/inode.c:6194
 #2: ffff88814d078990 (jbd2_handle){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_this_handle+0x12d5/0x1560 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:462
3 locks held by kworker/0:9/5337:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:14/9234:
3 locks held by kworker/0:5/11115:
 #0: ffff888016c70938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x75c/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
 #1: ffffc9000324fd00 ((work_completion)(&data->fib_event_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x79e/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2285
 #2: ffff888066cbd240 (&data->fib_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: nsim_fib_event_work+0x283/0x3380 drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:1480
2 locks held by kworker/u4:8/12861:
4 locks held by kworker/u4:15/12864:
5 locks held by syz.6.2640/13008:
2 locks held by syz.5.2719/13384:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
 #1: ffff8880195ee1c0 (&tty->legacy_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_init_dev+0x6f/0x470 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1430
1 lock held by syz.1.2749/13535:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz.9.2833/13922:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz.3.2859/14059:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz.4.2962/14629:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz.4.2962/14630:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz.7.2978/14730:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f62e8 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz-executor/14825:
6 locks held by syz-executor/14932:
 #0: ffff88807f19e460 (sb_writers#8){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: vfs_write+0x296/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:590
 #1: ffff888025550488 (&of->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1dc/0x500 fs/kernfs/file.c:287
 #2: ffff888023c0ebd0 (kn->active#284){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1fd/0x500 fs/kernfs/file.c:288
 #3: ffffffff8cd8aaa8 (nsim_bus_dev_list_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: del_device_store+0xd3/0x3a0 drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c:344
 #4: ffff88807d645178 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_lock include/linux/device.h:809 [inline]
 #4: ffff88807d645178 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: __device_driver_lock drivers/base/dd.c:1064 [inline]
 #4: ffff88807d645178 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: device_release_driver_internal+0xa1/0x710 drivers/base/dd.c:1279
 #5: ffffffff8c3239e8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: exp_funnel_lock kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:290 [inline]
 #5: ffffffff8c3239e8 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x2d1/0x750 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:845
1 lock held by syz.0.3023/15011:

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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 (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/07 03:29 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 con_install
2026/08/01 07:53 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in con_install
2026/08/01 07:08 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in con_install
2026/07/25 09:43 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in con_install
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.