INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/01 07:10
Reported-by: syzbot+e2b30c831377dd0afd3b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 31d, last: 2d06h
Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl (4) fbdev 1 1 1205d 1205d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/13 16:33
upstream INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl (3) fbdev 1 2 1432d 1457d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/02 23:29
upstream BUG: workqueue lockup (5) prio:low kernel 1 syz, C done 17679 4h50m 2421d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/01/14 22:04
upstream INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl (5) fbdev 1 1 712d 712d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/17 19:15
upstream INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl (2) fbdev 1 1 1652d 1652d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/22 20:52
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl 1 1 401d 401d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/04 03:50
linux-6.6 INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl 1 1 329d 329d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/15 02:24
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl 1 1 2426d 2426d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/05/08 18:42
upstream INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl fbdev 1 47 2216d 2424d 0/29 closed as dup on 2020/07/27 22:56
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl 1 syz, C error 24 2105d 2464d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2019/12/03 05:09
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl (2) 1 syz, C done 7 1836d 2251d 1/1 fixed on 2021/09/21 12:35

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.5.1197:8928 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.5.1197      state:D stack:26384 pid: 8928 ppid:  6866 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
 do_fb_ioctl+0x642/0x850 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1125
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 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: 0033:0x7f1579a2f159
RSP: 002b:00007f1577c87028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1579cb6fa0 RCX: 00007f1579a2f159
RDX: 0000200000000100 RSI: 0000000000004601 RDI: 000000000000000e
RBP: 00007f1579ac6024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1579cb7038 R14: 00007f1579cb6fa0 R15: 00007ffdb70dc588
 </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
2 locks held by getty/3943:
 #0: ffff88814d5a0098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x21/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:252
 #1: ffffc90002d032e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x594/0x1a50 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2158
3 locks held by kworker/u4:5/4212:
3 locks held by kworker/0:3/4230:
2 locks held by kworker/u4:7/4268:
 #0: ffff888016c79138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x75c/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:-1
 #1: ffffc9000327fd00 ((work_completion)(&sub_info->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x79e/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2285
5 locks held by kworker/0:6/4275:
3 locks held by kworker/0:13/4358:
3 locks held by kworker/0:14/4359:
5 locks held by kworker/0:15/4362:
3 locks held by kworker/0:19/4366:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:11/7407:
5 locks held by syz.2.1189/8911:
1 lock held by syz.4.1256/9134:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_release_struct+0xaa/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1718
2 locks held by syz.1.1265/9202:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
 #1: ffff88807a6af1c0 (&tty->legacy_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_init_dev+0x6f/0x470 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1430
1 lock held by syz.9.1302/9511:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd2/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by syz.6.1359/9592:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz.8.1379/9671:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz.7.1391/9742:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2064 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_open+0x20a/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
1 lock held by syz-executor/9923:
 #0: ffffffff8d44cd08 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnl_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:72 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d44cd08 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x79f/0xf10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5695
1 lock held by syz-executor/10381:
1 lock held by syz.2.1415/10411:
 #0: ffffffff8c9f6428 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ptmx_open+0xd2/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:823
1 lock held by modprobe/10442:

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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
2026/08/30 04:08 linux-5.15.y 28c35638ec51 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl
2026/08/15 20:16 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl
2026/08/09 19:36 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in do_fb_ioctl
2026/08/01 07:10 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 do_fb_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.