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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: 286d, last: 4d20h
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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
2d4c1ab4-61ae-4185-8083-af9f10881981 repro INFO: task hung in vcs_open (10) 2026/03/10 13:35 2026/03/10 17:54 2026/03/10 18:19 86914af9098a80da53c3c5d46be980c572ee29f8
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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 1181d 1185d 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 382d 548d 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 1923d 1923d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/05/22 19:06
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open serial 1 32 2094d 2227d 0/29 closed as dup on 2020/08/05 10:53
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (2) serial 1 1 2074d 2074d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/12/23 12:34
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (7) serial 1 1 804d 804d 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 2030d 2343d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/03/07 01:31
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (4) serial 1 2 1335d 1397d 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 2188d 2271d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/30 10:12
upstream INFO: task hung in vcs_open (6) serial 1 2 954d 1018d 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 1313d 1313d 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 604d 610d 28/29 fixed on 2024/11/12 23:31

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.9.2438:15503 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.9.2438      state:D stack:26792 pid:15503 tgid:15501 ppid:14199  task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5388 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1295/0x67a0 kernel/sched/core.c:7189
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7268 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x390 kernel/sched/core.c:7283
 schedule_timeout+0x1b2/0x280 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75
 ___down_common kernel/locking/semaphore.c:289 [inline]
 __down_common+0x371/0x8a0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:314
 down+0x74/0xa0 kernel/locking/semaphore.c:100
 console_lock+0x5b/0xa0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2896
 class_console_lock_constructor include/linux/console.h:736 [inline]
 vcs_open+0x64/0xc0 drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:746
 chrdev_open+0x234/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x6d8/0x1660 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1079
 do_open fs/namei.c:4699 [inline]
 path_openat+0x208c/0x31a0 fs/namei.c:4858
 do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:4887
 do_sys_openat2+0x10d/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1364
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1370 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1386 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1381 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x12d/0x210 fs/open.c:1381
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x10b/0x860 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa79339ce59
RSP: 002b:00007fa794264028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa793615fa0 RCX: 00007fa79339ce59
RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007fa793432d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa793616038 R14: 00007fa793615fa0 R15: 00007ffefb5dd5d8
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/30:
 #0: ffffffff8e7e5620 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:300 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e7e5620 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:838 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e7e5620 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x3d/0x184 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
2 locks held by getty/5365:
 #0: ffff888039d210a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x24/0x80 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc900032332e8 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x419/0x14f0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2211
2 locks held by kworker/0:7/5804:
6 locks held by syz.2.1808/12584:
4 locks held by syz-executor/16651:
2 locks held by syz.6.2786/17075:
 #0: ffffffff8f5023c0 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2037 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8f5023c0 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: tty_open+0x539/0xfa0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120
 #1: ffff8880261a61b0 (&tty->legacy_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: tty_init_dev.part.0+0x39/0x470 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1406
1 lock held by syz.2.2827/17451:
 #0: ffffffff8f5023c0 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2037 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8f5023c0 (tty_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: tty_open+0x539/0xfa0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120
1 lock held by syz.1.2888/17504:
1 lock held by syz.7.2903/17552:
1 lock held by syz.8.2907/17560:
 #0: ffff88807e610dc8 (&ima_iint_mutex_key[depth]){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: ima_check_last_writer security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:215 [inline]
 #0: ffff88807e610dc8 (&ima_iint_mutex_key[depth]){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: ima_file_free+0x146/0x340 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c:251
1 lock held by syz.8.2907/17566:

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NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 30 Comm: khungtaskd Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold+0x12d/0x151 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x1d7/0x230 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+0x141/0x190 lib/sys_info.c:165
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:353 [inline]
 watchdog+0xcb1/0x1030 kernel/hung_task.c:561
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 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 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:63
Code: 56 92 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 43 41 20 00 fb f4 <e9> 7c 42 03 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197df0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000005d0e9e7 RBX: ffff88801e2ca500 RCX: ffffffff8b8b50b5
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8df24460 RDI: ffffffff8c1c4500
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10170a67b5
R10: ffff8880b8533dab R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffffed1003c594a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffff90d7e950
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88812446a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc8e89456b8 CR3: 0000000043fd1000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:62 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x464/0x590 kernel/sched/idle.c:352
 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:451
 start_secondary+0x21d/0x2d0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x148
 </TASK>

Crashes (30):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
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.