INFO: task hung in devlink_pernet_pre_exit (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/24 21:23
Reported-by: syzbot+9d90661a2f1f7667c6dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 18d, last: 9d14h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in devlink_pernet_pre_exit net 1 1 1819d 1819d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/01/18 07:25
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in devlink_pernet_pre_exit (2) 1 1 489d 489d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/18 20:38
upstream INFO: task hung in devlink_pernet_pre_exit (2) net 1 32 704d 723d 28/29 fixed on 2024/11/12 23:31
upstream INFO: task hung in devlink_pernet_pre_exit (3) prio:low net 1 34 21d 74d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/07/31 00:11
linux-5.15 INFO: task hung in devlink_pernet_pre_exit 1 1 760d 760d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/21 18:04

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz-executor:13979 blocked for more than 144 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor    state:D
 stack:23984 pid:13979 ppid:     1 flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5049 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11c3/0x4350 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0xf/0x20 kernel/sched/core.c:6537
 __mutex_lock_common+0xdf5/0x2400 kernel/locking/mutex.c:669
 __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:729 [inline]
 mutex_lock_nested+0x17/0x20 kernel/locking/mutex.c:743
 devlink_pernet_pre_exit+0xa4/0x310 net/core/devlink.c:11534
 ops_pre_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:162 [inline]
 setup_net+0x631/0xa10 net/core/net_namespace.c:350
 copy_net_ns+0x33e/0x5b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:503
 create_new_namespaces+0x3ce/0x700 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x116/0x160 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
 ksys_unshare+0x4f6/0x8e0 kernel/fork.c:3178
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3255 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3253 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x34/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3253
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fdbdaf31427
RSP: 002b:00007fffd1df57d8 EFLAGS: 00000202
 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000110
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdbdb1b7f40 RCX: 00007fdbdaf31427
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000040000000
RBP: 00007fdbdb1b87b8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000008
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 00007fffd1df5a18 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 27 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x3a2/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:111
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x163/0x280 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:148 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:212 [inline]
 watchdog+0xe1b/0xe60 kernel/hung_task.c:369
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 PID: 14261 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:delay_tsc+0x57/0xc0 arch/x86/lib/delay.c:79
Code: 90 49 89 d7 49 c1 e7 20 49 09 c7 4d 29 f7 49 39 df 73 53 bf 01 00 00 00 e8 56 68 43 fd 65 8b 05 d7 7e f3 7b 85 c0 74 1c f3 90 <bf> 01 00 00 00 e8 af 66 43 fd e8 3a 36 b3 05 39 c5 75 0e 0f 01 f9
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000336ee18 EFLAGS: 00000082
RAX: 0000000080000002 RBX: 0000000000000899 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000020e RSI: ffffffff8a7a4b60 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200066ddb8 R12: 0000000000002705
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000020e39d22ea0 R15: 0000000000000184
FS:  00005555581a7500(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc8a6eba000 CR3: 0000000044c8e000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 wait_for_xmitr+0xa2/0x240 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2084
 serial8250_console_putchar+0x1a/0x50 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3322
 uart_console_write+0xaa/0x100 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:1981
 serial8250_console_write+0xb90/0xf50 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3399
 call_console_drivers kernel/printk/printk.c:-1 [inline]
 console_unlock+0xb47/0x10f0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2744
 vprintk_emit+0xc0/0x150 kernel/printk/printk.c:2274
 _printk+0xda/0x130 kernel/printk/printk.c:2299
 __dynamic_netdev_dbg+0x372/0x540 lib/dynamic_debug.c:681
 __netdev_update_features+0x1663/0x16d0 net/core/dev.c:10073
 register_netdevice+0x1155/0x1720 net/core/dev.c:10430
 __ip_tunnel_create+0x2c7/0x390 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:267
 ip_tunnel_init_net+0x246/0x710 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:1084
 vti_init_net+0x2b/0xf0 net/ipv4/ip_vti.c:504
 ops_init+0x360/0x5f0 net/core/net_namespace.c:138
 setup_net+0x39e/0xa10 net/core/net_namespace.c:333
 copy_net_ns+0x33e/0x5b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:503
 create_new_namespaces+0x3ce/0x700 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x116/0x160 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
 ksys_unshare+0x4f6/0x8e0 kernel/fork.c:3178
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3255 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3253 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x34/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3253
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f42ebc08427
Code: 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 10 01 00 00 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:00007ffca48a6f88 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000110
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f42ebe8ef40 RCX: 00007f42ebc08427
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000040000000
RBP: 00007f42ebe8f7b8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000008
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 00007ffca48a71c8 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
virtqueue callback for ffff888022a22300 (ffffffff854980c0)
virtqueue callback for ffff888022a22400 (ffffffff85497fd0)
No more buffers in queue
Sent skb ffff8880650c4368
Receiving skb proto 0x0800 len 52 type 0
No more buffers in queue
Receiving skb proto 0x0800 len 88 type 0

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/03 20:36 linux-5.15.y a051a4bf909f 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in devlink_pernet_pre_exit
2026/09/24 21:22 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 3c3cdf19 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan INFO: task hung in devlink_pernet_pre_exit
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.