INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/26 15:27
Reported-by: syzbot+3e83f718f0d5db474987@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 19h20m, last: 19h20m
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl (7) prio:high kernel 1 2 164d 168d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/14 12:03
linux-6.6 INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl 1 1 328d 328d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/10 14:54
upstream INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl (4) serial 1 1 1103d 1103d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/12/19 05:20
upstream INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl (6) kernel 1 1 405d 405d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/16 03:48
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl 1 1 58d 58d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/30 13:55
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl 1 1 2313d 2313d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/24 20:12
upstream INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl (3) serial 1 1 1283d 1283d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/22 09:16
upstream INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl serial 1 1 2407d 2407d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/05/23 20:53
upstream INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl (2) serial 1 2 2277d 2315d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/10/01 08:58
upstream INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl (5) kernel 1 1 567d 567d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/06 19:57
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl 1 1 47d 47d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/11 00:02

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.1.3697:17313 blocked for more than 145 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.1.3697      state:D stack:27912 pid:17313 ppid:15965  flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5382 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6701
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6775
 schedule_timeout+0xc1/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2144
 ___down_common kernel/locking/semaphore.c:229 [inline]
 __down_common+0x30e/0x650 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:250
 down+0x80/0xd0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:64
 console_lock+0x145/0x1b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2686
 vt_ioctl+0x1802/0x1f20 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:851
 tty_ioctl+0x91e/0xdc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2779
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f57e659e159
RSP: 002b:00007f57e47d5028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f57e6826090 RCX: 00007f57e659e159
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000005606 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f57e663506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f57e6826128 R14: 00007f57e6826090 R15: 00007ffcaf361a88
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
3 locks held by kworker/0:0/8:
 #0: ffff888017c70938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #0: ffff888017c70938 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #1: ffffc900000d7d00 (deferred_process_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #1: ffffc900000d7d00 (deferred_process_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #2: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: switchdev_deferred_process_work+0xe/0x20 net/switchdev/switchdev.c:104
1 lock held by khungtaskd/29:
 #0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d1320e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x55/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6635
3 locks held by kworker/u4:6/1126:
 #0: ffff88802cba9d38 ((wq_completion)ipv6_addrconf){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #0: ffff88802cba9d38 ((wq_completion)ipv6_addrconf){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #1: ffffc900045e7d00 ((work_completion)(&(&ifa->dad_work)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #1: ffffc900045e7d00 ((work_completion)(&(&ifa->dad_work)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #2: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: addrconf_dad_work+0xce/0x1550 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4188
2 locks held by dhcpcd/5436:
 #0: ffff88802c520690 (nlk_cb_mutex-ROUTE){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __netlink_dump_start+0xf4/0x7a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2341
 #1: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: netlink_dump+0x77c/0xec0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2268
2 locks held by getty/5532:
 #0: ffff88802df590a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc900032832f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x428/0x1370 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2217
4 locks held by kworker/u4:1/12309:
6 locks held by syz.8.3207/15526:
1 lock held by syz.8.3207/15529:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:4/15950:
 #0: ffff888017c71938 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #0: ffff888017c71938 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #1: ffffc90004b4fd00 ((linkwatch_work).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2632 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90004b4fd00 ((linkwatch_work).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 #2: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: linkwatch_event+0xe/0x60 net/core/link_watch.c:286
3 locks held by syz-executor/18428:
 #0: ffffffff8e436130 (cb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: genl_rcv+0x19/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1074
 #1: ffffffff8e435f48 (genl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: genl_lock net/netlink/genetlink.c:33 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8e435f48 (genl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: genl_op_lock net/netlink/genetlink.c:58 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8e435f48 (genl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: genl_rcv_msg+0x10c/0x7a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1065
 #2: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: wg_set_device+0xf8/0x1fb0 drivers/net/wireguard/netlink.c:504
1 lock held by syz-executor/18513:
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnl_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:78 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7ed/0xf90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6481
1 lock held by syz.0.3941/18725:
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnl_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:78 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7ed/0xf90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6481
1 lock held by syz.7.3947/18745:
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: do_ipv6_setsockopt+0x363/0x3e50 net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c:418
1 lock held by syz.7.3947/18746:
 #0: ffffffff8e3d0988 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: do_ipv6_setsockopt+0x363/0x3e50 net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c:418

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 29 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+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a6/0x3e0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x2f0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:160 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:222 [inline]
 watchdog+0xf59/0xfa0 kernel/hung_task.c:379
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/26 15:27 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 a3c7249d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in vt_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.