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INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (4)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/23 20:13
Subsystems: gfs2
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Reported-by: syzbot+9013411dc43f3582823a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 259d, last: 1d18h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
e8162464-150e-4201-be78-61372b01593a repro INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (4) 2026/03/07 14:45 2026/03/07 14:45 2026/03/07 14:54 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Discussions (4)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH v2] gfs2: reject journal extents with gaps 2 (2) 2026/03/30 09:42
[PATCH] gfs2: fix hung task in gfs2_jhead_process_page 5 (5) 2026/03/25 23:54
[syzbot] [gfs2?] INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (4) 3 (10) 2026/03/25 11:24
[PATCH] gfs2: prevent corrupt data from entering jextent 1 (1) 2026/03/25 07:50
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal 1 1 760d 760d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/09 15:26
upstream INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (3) gfs2 1 1 750d 750d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/09 17:03
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal 1 1 342d 342d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/01 12:08
upstream INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal (2) gfs2 1 2 859d 870d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/21 00:05
upstream INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal gfs2 1 5 1044d 1220d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/20 05:04
Last patch testing requests (6)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/03/25 10:25 51m eadavis@qq.com patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git 09c0f7f1bcdb report log
2026/03/25 07:49 26m eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next report log
2026/03/25 07:37 25m eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next report log
2026/03/24 09:27 17m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next report log
2026/03/24 02:30 16m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next report log
2026/03/24 01:49 17m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next report log

Sample crash report:
INFO: task kworker/1:3:6016 blocked in I/O wait for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/1:3     state:D stack:25352 pid:6016  tgid:6016  ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000
Workqueue: gfs2_recovery gfs2_recover_func
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5354 [inline]
 __schedule+0x165c/0x5520 kernel/sched/core.c:6966
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7049 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7064
 io_schedule+0x7f/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:7891
 folio_wait_bit_common+0x6d8/0xbc0 mm/filemap.c:1324
 folio_wait_locked include/linux/pagemap.h:1234 [inline]
 gfs2_jhead_process_page+0x175/0x670 fs/gfs2/lops.c:470
 gfs2_find_jhead+0xbd2/0xd30 fs/gfs2/lops.c:586
 gfs2_recover_func+0x6cf/0x1f60 fs/gfs2/recovery.c:459
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3278 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3361
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3442
 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>
INFO: task syz.0.17:6018 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:24872 pid:6018  tgid:6018  ppid:5971   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5354 [inline]
 __schedule+0x165c/0x5520 kernel/sched/core.c:6966
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7049 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7064
 bit_wait+0x11/0xd0 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:240
 __wait_on_bit+0xb9/0x310 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:52
 out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x13b/0x190 kernel/sched/wait_bit.c:67
 wait_on_bit include/linux/wait_bit.h:77 [inline]
 gfs2_recover_journal+0xda/0x140 fs/gfs2/recovery.c:579
 init_journal+0x16ad/0x2280 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:794
 init_inodes+0xdb/0x320 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:844
 gfs2_fill_super+0x1a38/0x21d0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1250
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x431/0x4f0 fs/super.c:1694
 gfs2_get_tree+0x51/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1754
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3764 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x341/0xd30 fs/namespace.c:3840
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4173 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4372 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4349
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdf18b9da0a
RSP: 002b:00007ffe1050fb88 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe1050fc10 RCX: 00007fdf18b9da0a
RDX: 000020000001f680 RSI: 000020000001f6c0 RDI: 00007ffe1050fbd0
RBP: 000020000001f680 R08: 00007ffe1050fc10 R09: 0000000000000084
R10: 0000000000000084 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000020000001f6c0
R13: 00007ffe1050fbd0 R14: 000000000001f707 R15: 0000200000000000
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/31:
 #0: ffffffff8e75d0e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e75d0e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e75d0e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
1 lock held by syslogd/5192:
 #0: ffff8880b863ae60 (&rq->__lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x31/0x150 kernel/sched/core.c:647
2 locks held by getty/5598:
 #0: ffff888036f220a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc9000322b2e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x45c/0x13a0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2211
2 locks held by kworker/1:3/6016:
 #0: ffff88801f31c540 ((wq_completion)gfs2_recovery){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3253 [inline]
 #0: ffff88801f31c540 ((wq_completion)gfs2_recovery){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa35/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3361
 #1: ffffc90003717c40 ((work_completion)(&jd->jd_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3254 [inline]
 #1: ffffc90003717c40 ((work_completion)(&jd->jd_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0xa70/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3361
1 lock held by syz.0.17/6018:
 #0: ffff88807aeaa0d8 (&type->s_umount_key#54/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: alloc_super+0x28c/0xab0 fs/super.c:345
2 locks held by syz.1.197/6592:

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NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x274/0x2d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x300 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 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+0xfd3/0x1030 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: 6592 Comm: syz.1.197 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:hlock_class kernel/locking/lockdep.c:234 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_wait_context kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4854 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x35e/0x2cf0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5187
Code: 09 d4 41 09 cc 41 09 dc 45 89 64 c7 20 41 89 7c c7 24 4c 89 7c 24 20 4d 8d 2c c7 41 81 e4 ff 1f 00 00 4c 0f a3 25 f2 b7 83 12 <73> 15 49 69 c4 c8 00 00 00 48 8d 80 70 e3 c6 93 4c 8b 74 24 08 eb
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005196ef0 EFLAGS: 00000003
RAX: 000000000000000a RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 0000000000000007
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: ffffffff81771696 R09: ffffffff8e75d0e0
R10: ffffc900051971f8 R11: ffffffff81b15b50 R12: 0000000000000007
R13: ffff88801ff8aa20 R14: ffff88801ff89e80 R15: ffff88801ff8a9d0
FS:  000055558285a500(0000) GS:ffff88812543f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f42201ff000 CR3: 0000000076fa2000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 lock_acquire+0x106/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1193 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xc3/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 save_stack+0x122/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:165
 __set_page_owner+0x8d/0x4c0 mm/page_owner.c:341
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24ba/0x2540 mm/page_alloc.c:3938
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x233/0x3d0 mm/page_alloc.c:5218
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x235/0x490 mm/mempolicy.c:2490
 folio_alloc_mpol_noprof+0x39/0x160 mm/mempolicy.c:2509
 shmem_alloc_folio mm/shmem.c:1933 [inline]
 shmem_alloc_and_add_folio+0x442/0xf80 mm/shmem.c:1975
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x4d4/0x1420 mm/shmem.c:2552
 shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2658 [inline]
 shmem_write_begin+0x16c/0x330 mm/shmem.c:3291
 generic_perform_write+0x2e2/0x8f0 mm/filemap.c:4325
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xf8/0x120 mm/shmem.c:3466
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x61d/0xb90 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f422815cfce
Code: 08 0f 85 a5 a8 ff ff 49 89 fb 48 89 f0 48 89 d7 48 89 ce 4c 89 c2 4d 89 ca 4c 8b 44 24 08 4c 8b 4c 24 10 4c 89 5c 24 08 0f 05 <c3> 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 08
RSP: 002b:00007ffdacb63b98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055558285a500 RCX: 00007f422815cfce
RDX: 0000000001000000 RSI: 00007f421f200000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007ffdacb63cd0 R14: 00007ffdacb63c90 R15: 00007f421f200000
 </TASK>

Crashes (29):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/28 16:37 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 05:52 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/01/30 01:12 upstream 8dfce8991b95 aeb6fdd5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/01/25 17:46 upstream d91a46d6805a 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/01/18 14:31 upstream e84d960149e7 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/11/14 06:08 upstream 2ccec5944606 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/10/14 17:36 upstream 3a8660878839 b6605ba8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/09/16 22:20 upstream 46a51f4f5eda e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/09/16 09:15 upstream 46a51f4f5eda e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/09/12 09:33 upstream 02ffd6f89c50 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/08/14 04:28 upstream 91325f31afc1 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/30 04:21 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/30 01:52 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/29 23:34 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/29 21:22 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/29 20:07 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/29 02:25 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/29 00:48 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/28 22:41 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/23 10:11 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 23:13 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 22:33 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 12:46 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 11:29 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 03:32 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2026/03/22 02:16 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/12/16 10:18 linux-next 4a5663c04bb6 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/10/08 11:19 linux-next 68842969e138 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
2025/07/15 22:20 linux-next 0be23810e32e 03fcfc4b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in gfs2_recover_journal
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.