INFO: task hung in quotactl (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/17 10:19
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:normal
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First crash: 61d, last: 61d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
18ffe93b assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: task hung in quotactl (2) 2026/06/20 00:50 2026/06/20 00:50 2026/06/20 01:41 023e42b5
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in quotactl fs 1 5 230d 323d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/30 20:39
upstream INFO: task hung in sys_quotactl fs 1 7 695d 738d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/21 16:50

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.1.1971:16474 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.1.1971      state:D stack:27304 pid:16474 tgid:16473 ppid:10051  task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5504 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1709/0x5530 kernel/sched/core.c:7228
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7307 [inline]
 rt_mutex_schedule+0x76/0xf0 kernel/sched/core.c:7603
 rt_mutex_slowlock_block kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1670 [inline]
 __rt_mutex_slowlock kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1747 [inline]
 __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked+0x1f84/0x25b0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1787
 __rwbase_read_lock+0xc3/0x180 kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c:114
 rwbase_read_lock kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c:147 [inline]
 __down_read kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1502 [inline]
 down_read+0x132/0x200 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1576
 __super_lock fs/super.c:60 [inline]
 super_lock+0x2d6/0x3d0 fs/super.c:122
 quota_sync_all fs/quota/quota.c:69 [inline]
 __do_sys_quotactl fs/quota/quota.c:938 [inline]
 __se_sys_quotactl+0x3a0/0x9a0 fs/quota/quota.c:917
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f02a342ce59
RSP: 002b:00007f02a167e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000b3
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f02a36a5fa0 RCX: 00007f02a342ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff80000100
RBP: 00007f02a34c2d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f02a36a6038 R14: 00007f02a36a5fa0 R15: 00007ffeffee2b48
 </TASK>
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 38 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x274/0x2d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:122
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x380 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:65
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:162 [inline]
 __sys_info lib/sys_info.c:157 [inline]
 sys_info+0x135/0x170 lib/sys_info.c:165
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:353 [inline]
 watchdog+0xfd7/0x1030 kernel/hung_task.c:561
 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>
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11425 Comm: kworker/u8:18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound nsim_dev_trap_report_work
RIP: 0010:native_save_fl arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:26 [inline]
RIP: 0010:arch_local_save_flags arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:109 [inline]
RIP: 0010:arch_irqs_disabled arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:151 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:178 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x31/0x80 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:198
Code: 48 89 f3 49 89 fe 48 83 c7 18 48 8b 74 24 10 e8 a5 e6 6c f6 4c 89 f7 e8 4d 73 6d f6 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 05 e8 70 74 99 f6 9c <58> a9 00 02 00 00 75 27 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900051a7920 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000080000002
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8baa3a60 RDI: ffffffff8b33e290
RBP: ffffc900051a7a30 R08: ffffffff8f8c5ff7 R09: 1ffffffff1f18bfe
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1f18bff R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 1ffff92000a34f30 R14: ffff8880b8639020 R15: 0000000000000246
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125ed3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8ad97d1000 CR3: 0000000037318000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 unlock_rt_mutex_safe kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:350 [inline]
 rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x4ee/0xa20 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1467
 spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:109 [inline]
 napi_skb_cache_get+0x2d9/0x450 net/core/skbuff.c:297
 __alloc_skb+0x19d/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:698
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:819 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:876 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x2b1/0xcb0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:922
 process_one_work+0x93a/0x12b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3326
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3409 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xb05/0x10d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3490
 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>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/18 10:13 linux-next 4fa3f5fabb30 b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in quotactl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.