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INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2024/05/29 22:08
Subsystems: net virt
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Reported-by: syzbot+7f3bbe59e8dd2328a990@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 478d, last: 20h15m
Discussions (4)
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[syzbot] [kvm?] [net?] [virt?] INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush 8 (16) 2025/08/31 15:53
[syzbot] Monthly virt report (Feb 2025) 0 (1) 2025/02/25 15:14
[syzbot] Monthly virt report (Jan 2025) 0 (1) 2025/01/14 08:53
[syzbot] Monthly kvm report (Jul 2024) 0 (1) 2024/07/22 21:16
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-12 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush 1 1 73d 73d 0/1 premoderation: reported on 2025/06/19 18:41
Last patch testing requests (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/31 12:09 18m mst@redhat.com https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git d9ea58b5dc6b4b50fbb6a10c73f840e8b10442b7 report log
2025/08/31 08:41 18m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2025/08/31 07:35 18m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2025/08/31 05:54 18m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
Cause bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/31 14:45 bisect upstream running

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.0.17:6038 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.0.17        state:D stack:27224 pid:6038  tgid:6038  ppid:5979   task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5357 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1190/0x5de0 kernel/sched/core.c:6961
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7043 [inline]
 schedule+0xe7/0x3a0 kernel/sched/core.c:7058
 schedule_timeout+0x257/0x290 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
 do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline]
 __wait_for_common+0x2fc/0x4e0 kernel/sched/completion.c:121
 __vhost_worker_flush+0x1a8/0x1d0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:296
 vhost_worker_flush drivers/vhost/vhost.c:303 [inline]
 vhost_dev_flush+0xac/0x110 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:313
 vhost_vsock_flush drivers/vhost/vsock.c:698 [inline]
 vhost_vsock_dev_release+0x19f/0x400 drivers/vhost/vsock.c:750
 __fput+0x402/0xb70 fs/file_table.c:468
 task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xeb/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:43
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3f6/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f1fdc78ebe9
RSP: 002b:00007ffcf43dcf28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f1fdc9c7da0 RCX: 00007f1fdc78ebe9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f1fdc9c7da0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000008f43dd21f
R10: 00007f1fdc9c7cb0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000248b9
R13: 00007ffcf43dd020 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 00007ffcf43dd040
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/31:
 #0: ffffffff8e5c1220 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e5c1220 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e5c1220 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x36/0x1c0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
3 locks held by kworker/u9:1/5174:
 #0: ffff8880605ef148 ((wq_completion)hci2){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x12a2/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3211
 #1: ffffc9000f89fd10 ((work_completion)(&hdev->cmd_sync_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x929/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3212
 #2: ffff8880256d4dc0 (&hdev->req_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: hci_cmd_sync_work+0x175/0x430 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:331
2 locks held by getty/5615:
 #0: ffff88814d35e0a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x24/0x80 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc9000332b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x41b/0x14f0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2222

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x27b/0x390 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x29c/0x300 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:160 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:328 [inline]
 watchdog+0xf0e/0x1260 kernel/hung_task.c:491
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x5d4/0x6f0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: 0c 62 02 c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d d3 12 16 00 fb f4 <e9> 4c 09 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197df8 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 000000000015fae9 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff8b93fc29
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8de50a38 RDI: ffffffff8c162980
RBP: ffffed1003c5d488 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10170a6655
R10: ffff8880b85332ab R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffff88801e2ea440 R14: ffffffff90ab5290 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881247b8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000555d26767660 CR3: 000000000e380000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:757
 default_idle_call+0x6d/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:190 [inline]
 do_idle+0x391/0x510 kernel/sched/idle.c:330
 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:428
 start_secondary+0x21d/0x2b0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:315
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148
 </TASK>

Crashes (333):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/31 02:20 upstream 11e7861d680c 807a3b61 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2025/08/08 15:47 upstream 37816488247d 987b750d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2025/06/11 23:13 upstream 488ef3560196 98683f8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2025/06/09 09:48 upstream 939f15e640f1 4826c28e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2025/05/03 20:41 upstream 95d3481af6dc b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2025/03/25 11:55 upstream 327ecdbc0fda 875573af .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2025/01/10 05:23 upstream 643e2e259c2b 40f46913 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/11/09 14:46 upstream da4373fbcf00 6b856513 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/11/05 11:34 upstream 2e1b3cc9d7f7 509da429 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/11/04 02:12 upstream b9021de3ec2f f00eed24 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/25 09:49 upstream ae90f6a6170d c79b8ca5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/13 18:22 upstream ba01565ced22 084d8178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/27 16:26 upstream 075dbe9f6e3c 2b1784d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/25 03:55 upstream 97d8894b6f4c 5643e0e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/25 01:47 upstream 97d8894b6f4c 5643e0e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/25 01:40 upstream 97d8894b6f4c 5643e0e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/25 00:26 upstream a430d95c5efa 5643e0e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/01 20:32 upstream 431c1646e1f8 1eda0d14 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/08/17 16:04 upstream e5fa841af679 dbc93b08 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/05/26 06:33 upstream 9b62e02e6336 a10a183e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/05/25 20:10 upstream 56fb6f92854f a10a183e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/11 19:47 upstream 1d227fcc7222 cd942402 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/10 20:18 upstream d3d1556696c1 8fbfc0c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/27 22:24 upstream 075dbe9f6e3c 2b1784d6 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm64 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/27 22:23 upstream 075dbe9f6e3c 2b1784d6 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm64 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/05/25 18:40 upstream 56fb6f92854f a10a183e .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm32 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2025/02/14 01:08 linux-next 7b7a883c7f4d d9a046cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/02 18:40 linux-next fe2173353674 a4c7fd36 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/02 10:06 linux-next fe2173353674 ea2b66a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/01 19:31 linux-next 77df9e4bb222 ea2b66a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/01 19:30 linux-next 77df9e4bb222 ea2b66a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/01 10:32 linux-next 77df9e4bb222 bbd4e0a4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/30 20:02 linux-next cea5425829f7 bbd4e0a4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/30 10:05 linux-next cea5425829f7 ba29ff75 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/28 21:14 linux-next 40e0c9d414f5 ba29ff75 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/28 07:25 linux-next 40e0c9d414f5 440b26ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/27 20:03 linux-next 40e0c9d414f5 2b1784d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/27 07:12 linux-next 92fc9636d147 9314348a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/26 11:20 linux-next 92fc9636d147 0d19f247 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/25 09:35 linux-next 2b7275670032 349a68c4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/24 20:53 linux-next 4d0326b60bb7 5643e0e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/24 17:31 linux-next 4d0326b60bb7 5643e0e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/09/24 11:20 linux-next 4d0326b60bb7 89298aad .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/08/19 17:15 linux-next 367b5c3d53e5 9f0ab3fb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/08/17 14:40 linux-next 367b5c3d53e5 dbc93b08 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/08/17 14:39 linux-next 367b5c3d53e5 dbc93b08 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/08/16 07:46 linux-next 367b5c3d53e5 e4bacdaf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/08/15 08:42 linux-next edd1ec2e3a9f e4bacdaf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/08/15 00:48 linux-next 320eb81df4f6 e4bacdaf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/05/10 14:50 linux-next 75fa778d74b7 f7c35481 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/12/14 09:33 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git fixes 21f1b85c8912 7cbfbb3a .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/12/13 23:26 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git fixes 21f1b85c8912 7d3b55db .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/26 08:03 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git fixes 5f153a692bac 65e8686b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/23 12:26 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git fixes c05ad457ce8c 15fa2979 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
2024/10/17 05:47 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git fixes cfb10de18538 666f77ed .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 INFO: task hung in __vhost_worker_flush
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.