INFO: task hung in alloc_buffer_head

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/01 02:38
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 134d, last: 134d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
ec375ed4 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: task hung in alloc_buffer_head 2026/05/24 09:13 2026/05/24 09:13 2026/05/24 10:03 c69befb3

Sample crash report:
INFO: task jbd2/sda1-8:5147 blocked for more than 149 seconds.
      Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:jbd2/sda1-8     state:D stack:26208 pid:5147  tgid:5147  ppid:2      task_flags:0x240040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5298 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15dd/0x52d0 kernel/sched/core.c:6911
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6993 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7008
 io_schedule+0x7f/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7835
 bit_wait_io+0x11/0xd0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:250
 alloc_buffer_head+0x2a/0x270 fs/buffer.c:3026
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by kthreadd/2:
3 locks held by kworker/0:0/9:
2 locks held by kworker/1:0/24:
4 locks held by kworker/1:1/29:
 #0: ffff88813fe0dd48 ((wq_completion)events_power_efficient){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3251 [inline]
 #0: ffff88813fe0dd48 ((wq_completion)events_power_efficient){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa52/0x18c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3359
 #1: ffffc90000a57c40 ((reg_check_chans).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3252 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90000a57c40 ((reg_check_chans).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa8d/0x18c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3359
 #2: ffffffff8fbd0108 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: reg_check_chans_work+0xa5/0xfe0 net/wireless/reg.c:2462
 #3: ffff88802ad50788 (&rdev->wiphy.mtx){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: class_wiphy_constructor include/net/cfg80211.h:6441 [inline]
 #3: ffff88802ad50788 (&rdev->wiphy.mtx){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: reg_leave_invalid_chans net/wireless/reg.c:2450 [inline]
 #3: ffff88802ad50788 (&rdev->wiphy.mtx){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: reg_check_chans_work+0x171/0xfe0 net/wireless/reg.c:2465
1 lock held by khungtaskd/31:
 #0: ffffffff8e75e5e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e75e5e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e75e5e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
4 locks held by kworker/u8:3/49:
3 locks held by kworker/0:2/790:
3 locks held by kworker/R-ipv6_/3176:
 #0: ffff8880b873ae60 (&rq->__lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x31/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:647
 #1: ffff8880b8724588 (psi_seq){-.-.}-{0:0}, at: psi_task_switch+0x53/0x880 kernel/sched/psi.c:933
 #2: ffff8880b873ae60 (&rq->__lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x31/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:647
6 locks held by kworker/u9:1/5136:
 #0: ffff88807ad2a148 ((wq_completion)hci0){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3251 [inline]
 #0: ffff88807ad2a148 ((wq_completion)hci0){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa52/0x18c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3359

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/02 02:30 upstream 9147566d8016 0cb124d5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in alloc_buffer_head
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.