INFO: task hung in mld_ifc_work

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/05 09:28
Subsystems: net
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 96d, last: 96d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
64aaba1d assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: task hung in mld_ifc_work 2026/05/21 10:26 2026/05/21 10:26 2026/05/21 11:21 cf874a1c

Sample crash report:
INFO: task kworker/R-mld:3195 blocked for more than 154 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/R-mld   state:D stack:24896 pid:3195  tgid:3195  ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000
Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5387 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17b4/0x5680 kernel/sched/core.c:7188
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7267 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7282
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7339
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:726 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x7f7/0x1550 kernel/locking/mutex.c:820
 mld_ifc_work+0x2d/0xe70 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2692
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3385
 rescuer_thread+0x827/0x1130 kernel/workqueue.c:3609
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
2 locks held by kworker/u8:0/12:
2 locks held by ksoftirqd/0/15:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/31:
 #0: ffffffff8e95cd60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e95cd60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:838 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e95cd60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/07 09:24 net b266bacba796 f250db59 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in mld_ifc_work
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.