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INFO: task hung in vcs_open (10)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/29 18:45
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+99897fb26901360e1e8e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 304d, last: 17h55m
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8c12c39a-2501-482f-b6f0-fb29111a40e2 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ INFO: task hung in vcs_open (10) 2026/05/21 09:22 2026/05/21 09:22 2026/05/21 10:29 cf874a1cf36318c06202027159ddac14acf00db7

			
		
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[syzbot] [kernel?] INFO: task hung in vcs_open (10) 0 (1) 2026/05/29 18:45
Similar bugs (12)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (5) serial 1 2 1199d 1203d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/04 04:45
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (9) kernel 1 11 400d 566d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/10 23:55
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (3) serial 1 1 1941d 1941d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/05/22 19:06
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open serial 1 32 2112d 2245d 0/29 closed as dup on 2020/08/05 10:53
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (2) serial 1 1 2092d 2092d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/12/23 12:34
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (7) serial 1 1 822d 822d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/15 13:53
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in vcs_open 1 11 2048d 2361d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/03/07 01:31
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (4) serial 1 2 1353d 1415d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/02 16:56
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in vcs_open 1 3 2206d 2289d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/30 10:12
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (6) serial 1 2 972d 1036d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/17 08:03
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in vcs_open (2) 1 1 1331d 1331d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/02/22 05:12
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (8) nilfs serial 1 C inconclusive 7 622d 628d 28/29 fixed on 2024/11/12 23:31

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.4.6450:27014 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.4.6450      state:D stack:27696 pid:27014 tgid:27012 ppid:25756  task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5504 [inline]
 __schedule+0x17d9/0x56c0 kernel/sched/core.c:7228
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7307 [inline]
 schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7322
 schedule_timeout+0xc0/0x2c0 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
 ___down_common kernel/locking/semaphore.c:293 [inline]
 __down_common+0x3b7/0x850 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:318
 down+0x80/0xd0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:100
 console_lock+0x58/0x90 kernel/printk/printk.c:2896
 class_console_lock_constructor include/linux/console.h:734 [inline]
 vcs_open+0x61/0xd0 drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:746
 chrdev_open+0x4d9/0x600 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x816/0x1380 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1079
 do_open fs/namei.c:4700 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2e44/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4859
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4888
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1395
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1401 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1417 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1412 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1412
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f80b8f9ce59
RSP: 002b:00007f80b9e12028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f80b9215fa0 RCX: 00007f80b8f9ce59
RDX: 0000000000088100 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f80b9032d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f80b9216038 R14: 00007f80b9215fa0 R15: 00007f80b933fa48
 </TASK>
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: khungtaskd Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
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+0xfd7/0x1030 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: 27325 Comm: syz.3.6553 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:_static_cpu_has arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:101 [inline]
RIP: 0010:addr_has_metadata mm/kasan/kasan.h:334 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:188 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x30/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
Code: 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 b0 01 48 85 f6 0f 84 ae 01 00 00 4c 8d 04 37 49 39 f8 0f 82 36 02 00 00 49 b9 00 00 00 00 00 80 ff ff <eb> 0d cc cc cc 49 b9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 4c 39 cf 0f 82 14 02
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007b80 EFLAGS: 00000212
RAX: 0000000000000101 RBX: 0000000000007871 RCX: ffffffff89ec8626
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88807d6bcf08
RBP: ffff88807728b0c0 R08: ffff88807d6bcf10 R09: ffff800000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100fad79e2 R12: ffff88803840000c
R13: ffff888038400000 R14: ffff88807d6bc000 R15: 0000000000007871
FS:  00007fa35a45f6c0(0000) GS:ffff88812528f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000020000030b030 CR3: 0000000040e34000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
 _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
 bitmap_port_gc_test net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_bitmap_port.c:67 [inline]
 bitmap_port_gc+0x186/0x540 net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_bitmap_gen.h:277
 call_timer_fn+0x192/0x5e0 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2374 [inline]
 __run_timer_base+0x652/0x8b0 kernel/time/timer.c:2386
 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2395 [inline]
 run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2405
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:735
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:752
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:memory_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:114 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned_n mm/kasan/generic.c:140 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned mm/kasan/generic.c:172 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:191 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x7b/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4f 8d 1c 17 49 ff c8 4d 89 c1 49 c1 e9 03 48 bb 01 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4d 8d 34 19 4d 89 f4 4d 29 dc <49> 83 fc 10 7f 29 4d 85 e4 0f 84 3d 01 00 00 4c 89 cb 48 f7 d3 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc900036d7a08 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 1ffff1101004b301 RBX: dffffc0000000001 RCX: ffffffff8ba6ae37
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff8880361400c8
RBP: ffffc900036d7bc8 R08: ffff8880361400cf R09: 1ffff11006c28019
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1006c28019 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffffc900036d7b20 R14: ffffed1006c2801a R15: 1ffff11006c28019
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
 atomic_long_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:3188 [inline]
 __mutex_owner kernel/locking/mutex.h:48 [inline]
 mutex_can_spin_on_owner kernel/locking/mutex.c:440 [inline]
 mutex_optimistic_spin kernel/locking/mutex.c:485 [inline]
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:650 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x257/0x1550 kernel/locking/mutex.c:821
 tty_write_lock+0x5c/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:942
 set_termios+0x4b5/0x6c0 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:488
 tty_mode_ioctl+0x49c/0x7c0 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:-1
 tty_ioctl+0x9bd/0xdd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2801
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa35959ce59
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fa35a45f028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa359815fa0 RCX: 00007fa35959ce59
RDX: 0000200000001080 RSI: 0000000000005403 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007fa359632d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa359816038 R14: 00007fa359815fa0 R15: 00007fa35993fa48
 </TASK>

Crashes (32):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/16 23:03 upstream 6b5a2b7d9bc1 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/06/16 14:19 upstream 481329ec5b31 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/05/25 18:22 upstream e7ae89a0c97c c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/05/22 02:54 upstream 6779b50faa56 e195359d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/04/26 15:29 upstream 897d54018cc9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/04/19 08:54 upstream eb5249b12507 303e2802 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/03/30 15:15 upstream 7aaa8047eafd 458630d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/03/24 05:29 upstream c369299895a5 baf8bf12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/03/16 16:33 upstream f338e7738378 64e21424 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/03/14 17:30 upstream 1c9982b49613 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/03/11 01:15 upstream b4f0dd314b39 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/03/10 21:30 upstream 1f318b96cc84 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/03/09 22:54 upstream 1f318b96cc84 176bead5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/02/07 14:13 upstream 2687c848e578 f20fc9f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/01/16 14:10 upstream 983d014aafb1 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/01/14 19:48 upstream c537e12daeec d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/01/03 02:21 upstream 9b0436804460 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/12/20 16:03 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/11/13 07:52 upstream e927c520e1ba 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/09/30 19:08 upstream 30d4efb2f5a5 65a0eece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/09/27 11:21 upstream fec734e8d564 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/08/22 16:08 upstream 3957a5720157 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/08/21 03:47 upstream 41cd3fd15263 0b9605c8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/08/20 13:17 upstream b19a97d57c15 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/08/17 11:40 upstream 99bade344cfa 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/08/17 07:34 upstream 90d970cade8e 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/04/29 16:58 upstream 57b8e2d666a3 804ea88f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/04/22 02:43 upstream 4ee64205ffaa 0b6ab7ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/04/13 01:47 upstream f5459048c38a 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2026/03/30 09:41 upstream ac354b5cb04d 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/12/29 06:06 upstream c875a6c32467 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in vcs_open
2025/12/10 23:24 upstream 0048fbb4011e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 INFO: task hung in vcs_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.