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INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/06/20 18:39
Reported-by: syzbot+f6b7b094ac715f53c2d5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d07h, last: 5d07h
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel (2) origin:lts-only 1 C inconclusive 14 65d 598d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/11/04 12:30
android-49 INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel 1 85 2480d 2629d 0/3 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/01/08 20:52
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel missing-backport origin:upstream 1 C done 83 49d 798d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/18 05:41
linux-4.14 INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel 1 C error 4 1899d 2508d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2019/08/14 00:43
android-414 INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel 1 1 2439d 2439d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/02/18 04:29
linux-4.19 INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel vfs 1 C error 5 1229d 2246d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/05/01 20:49
upstream INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel (3) jfs 1 1 192d 192d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/15 07:14
upstream INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel fuse 1 213 2673d 3004d 0/29 closed as dup on 2018/09/08 15:40
linux-6.1 INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel 1 43 679d 801d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/24 17:53
upstream INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel (2) fs 1 C done error 1411 467d 2438d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/23 01:24

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.0.17:5948 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:24912 pid:5948  ppid:5904   flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5381 [inline]
 __schedule+0x15ae/0x4660 kernel/sched/core.c:6700
 schedule+0xbd/0x170 kernel/sched/core.c:6774
 d_wait_lookup fs/dcache.c:2633 [inline]
 d_alloc_parallel+0xbd9/0x1590 fs/dcache.c:2715
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3421 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3564 [inline]
 path_openat+0x955/0x3270 fs/namei.c:3794
 do_filp_open+0x1f2/0x430 fs/namei.c:3824
 do_sys_openat2+0x134/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1421
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1447
 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: 0033:0x7f8006b9ce59
RSP: 002b:00007f8007af3028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8006e15fa0 RCX: 00007f8006b9ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f8006c32e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8006e16038 R14: 00007f8006e15fa0 R15: 00007ffec88f4f68
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
2 locks held by kworker/1:0/23:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/28:
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:334 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:786 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8d131da0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x55/0x290 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6633
3 locks held by kworker/u4:4/67:
 #0: ffff88802caa5d38 ((wq_completion)ipv6_addrconf){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2628 [inline]
 #0: ffff88802caa5d38 ((wq_completion)ipv6_addrconf){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 #1: ffffc900015e7d00 ((work_completion)(&(&ifa->dad_work)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2628 [inline]
 #1: ffffc900015e7d00 ((work_completion)(&(&ifa->dad_work)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 #2: ffffffff8e3bfe48 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: addrconf_dad_work+0xce/0x1550 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4181
1 lock held by kswapd0/87:
3 locks held by kworker/u4:6/2971:
 #0: ffff888017c71538 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2628 [inline]
 #0: ffff888017c71538 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 #1: ffffc9000b8a7d00 ((linkwatch_work).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2628 [inline]
 #1: ffffc9000b8a7d00 ((linkwatch_work).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x975/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 #2: ffffffff8e3bfe48 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: linkwatch_event+0xe/0x60 net/core/link_watch.c:286
3 locks held by kworker/u4:10/4605:
2 locks held by getty/5531:
 #0: ffff888031e0a0a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc9000327b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: n_tty_read+0x428/0x1370 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2217
1 lock held by syz.0.17/5948:
 #0: ffff88805e940198 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: inode_lock_shared include/linux/fs.h:814 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805e940198 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3563 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805e940198 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: path_openat+0x7e5/0x3270 fs/namei.c:3794
1 lock held by syz.0.17/5949:
1 lock held by syz.1.18/5966:
2 locks held by syz.2.19/5988:
1 lock held by syz.2.19/5989:
 #0: ffff88805e9406e0 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: inode_lock_shared include/linux/fs.h:814 [inline]
 #0: ffff88805e9406e0 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: lookup_slow+0x46/0x70 fs/namei.c:1718
1 lock held by syz.3.20/6007:
1 lock held by syz.4.21/6031:
1 lock held by syz.5.22/6061:
3 locks held by syz.6.23/6086:
1 lock held by syz.6.23/6087:
 #0: ffff8880490a06e0 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: inode_lock_shared include/linux/fs.h:814 [inline]
 #0: ffff8880490a06e0 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: lookup_slow+0x46/0x70 fs/namei.c:1718
6 locks held by syz-executor/6090:
2 locks held by dhcpcd/6110:
 #0: ffff88807a2b0130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1780 [inline]
 #0: ffff88807a2b0130 (sk_lock-AF_PACKET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: packet_do_bind+0x33/0xd40 net/packet/af_packet.c:3264
 #1: ffffffff8d137778 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: exp_funnel_lock kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:292 [inline]
 #1: ffffffff8d137778 (rcu_state.exp_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x306/0x880 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:1004

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NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 28 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
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>
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
RIP: 0010:deliver_ptype_list_skb net/core/dev.c:2289 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__netif_receive_skb_core+0x2bdd/0x3ab0 net/core/dev.c:5597
Code: 48 c1 e8 03 48 89 44 24 60 48 89 4c 24 30 48 c1 e9 03 48 89 4c 24 58 44 89 e3 4d 8d 77 c0 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 0f b6 04 28 <84> c0 0f 85 7c 02 00 00 45 0f b7 2e 44 89 ef 4c 8b 64 24 68 44 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000079a0 EFLAGS: 00000a02
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88801a270000
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 000000000000dd86 RDI: 0000000000000d00
RBP: ffffc90000007b70 R08: ffff88801a270000 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffff8e8ca570 R15: ffffffff8e8ca5b0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f6bd874c7d8 CR3: 000000000cf32000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5644 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0x74/0x290 net/core/dev.c:5760
 process_backlog+0x380/0x710 net/core/dev.c:6088
 __napi_poll+0xbb/0x460 net/core/dev.c:6650
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6717 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x65f/0xcc0 net/core/dev.c:6853
 handle_softirqs+0x27d/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
 do_softirq+0xfa/0x1a0 kernel/softirq.c:479
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x184/0x1c0 kernel/softirq.c:406
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:856 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1bc2/0x3630 net/core/dev.c:4490
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3113 [inline]
 neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:527 [inline]
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:541 [inline]
 ip6_finish_output2+0xdf7/0x1620 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:141
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:467 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x167/0x4a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:304
 mld_sendpack+0x802/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1823
 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2124 [inline]
 mld_ifc_work+0x839/0xde0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2654
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 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
2026/06/20 18:38 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 43bfcdb0 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan INFO: task hung in d_alloc_parallel
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.