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INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr (3)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/14 16:20
Subsystems: xfs
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First crash: 156d, last: 121d
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr fs 1 21 1805d 2746d 0/29 closed as dup on 2018/07/18 11:45
android-49 INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr 1 2 2722d 2741d 0/3 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/02/22 13:39
upstream INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr (2) xfs 1 2 246d 276d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/11 07:37

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.5.6049:2635 blocked for more than 144 seconds.
      Not tainted syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz.5.6049      state:D stack:27024 pid:2635  tgid:2608  ppid:29520  task_flags:0x400040 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5357 [inline]
 __schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6961
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7043 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7058
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7115
 rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x872/0xfe0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1185
 __down_write_common kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1317 [inline]
 __down_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1326 [inline]
 down_write+0x1ab/0x1f0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1591
 inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:870 [inline]
 vfs_removexattr+0x6c/0x1b0 fs/xattr.c:574
 removexattr fs/xattr.c:1023 [inline]
 filename_removexattr fs/xattr.c:1052 [inline]
 path_removexattrat+0x35d/0x690 fs/xattr.c:1088
 __do_sys_removexattr fs/xattr.c:1100 [inline]
 __se_sys_removexattr fs/xattr.c:1097 [inline]
 __x64_sys_removexattr+0x62/0x70 fs/xattr.c:1097
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f4ff318eba9
RSP: 002b:00007f4ff400e038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000c5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4ff33d6180 RCX: 00007f4ff318eba9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00002000000002c0 RDI: 0000200000000140
RBP: 00007f4ff3211e19 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f4ff33d6218 R14: 00007f4ff33d6180 R15: 00007ffd771a3ae8
 </TASK>

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/31:
 #0: ffffffff8e13a0e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e13a0e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline]
 #0: ffffffff8e13a0e0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x2e/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6775
2 locks held by getty/5619:
 #0: ffff88814d9260a0 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x25/0x70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:243
 #1: ffffc9000332b2f0 (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: n_tty_read+0x43e/0x1400 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2222
4 locks held by syz.5.6049/2632:
 #0: ffff88805b3cc428 (sb_writers#23){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write+0x41/0x90 fs/namespace.c:557
 #1: ffff88804d945870 (&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:870 [inline]
 #1: ffff88804d945870 (&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key){++++}-{4:4}, at: vfs_setxattr+0x144/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:320
 #2: ffff88805b3cc618 (sb_internal#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: xfs_trans_alloc+0xd7/0x980 fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c:256
 #3: ffff88804d945658 (&xfs_dir_ilock_class){++++}-{4:4}, at: xfs_trans_alloc_inode+0x161/0x4a0 fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c:1081
2 locks held by syz.5.6049/2635:
 #0: ffff88805b3cc428 (sb_writers#23){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write+0x41/0x90 fs/namespace.c:557
 #1: ffff88804d945870 (&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:870 [inline]
 #1: ffff88804d945870 (&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key){++++}-{4:4}, at: vfs_removexattr+0x6c/0x1b0 fs/xattr.c:574
3 locks held by syz.4.6438/4084:

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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 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x39e/0x3d0 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:113
 nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x17a/0x300 lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62
 trigger_all_cpu_backtrace include/linux/nmi.h:160 [inline]
 check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks kernel/hung_task.c:328 [inline]
 watchdog+0xf93/0xfe0 kernel/hung_task.c:491
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x439/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 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: 4084 Comm: syz.4.6438 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
RIP: 0010:folio_test_hugetlb include/linux/page-flags.h:1065 [inline]
RIP: 0010:filemap_unaccount_folio+0x10d/0x790 mm/filemap.c:179
Code: 7d 07 e8 76 a9 c9 ff eb 1d ff c5 e8 6d a9 c9 ff 31 ff 89 ee e8 a4 ad c9 ff 85 ed 0f 8f fc 05 00 00 e8 57 a9 c9 ff 4c 8d 63 30 <4c> 89 e0 48 c1 e8 03 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 0f b6 04 08 84
RSP: 0018:ffffc900043bf4e0 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: ffffffff81f61409 RBX: ffffea0002ac6f40 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000484e000 RSI: 000000000007ffff RDI: 0000000000080000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffea0002ac6f73 R09: 1ffffd4000558dee
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff94000558def R12: ffffea0002ac6f70
R13: 1ffffd4000558de8 R14: 1ffffd4000558de9 R15: ffffea0002ac6f48
FS:  00007f041568c6c0(0000) GS:ffff888125c15000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f040b3ff000 CR3: 000000008d37e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __filemap_remove_folio+0xc3/0x500 mm/filemap.c:223
 filemap_remove_folio+0xe6/0x1f0 mm/filemap.c:253
 truncate_inode_folio+0x5d/0x70 mm/truncate.c:176
 shmem_undo_range+0x3a9/0x14b0 mm/shmem.c:1153
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1269 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x272/0xa70 mm/shmem.c:1397
 evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810
 __dentry_kill+0x209/0x660 fs/dcache.c:669
 dput+0x19f/0x2b0 fs/dcache.c:911
 __fput+0x68e/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:476
 fput_close_sync+0x119/0x200 fs/file_table.c:573
 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1587 [inline]
 __se_sys_close fs/open.c:1572 [inline]
 __x64_sys_close+0x7f/0x110 fs/open.c:1572
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f041478d80a
Code: 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 48 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 18 89 7c 24 0c e8 43 91 02 00 8b 7c 24 0c 89 c2 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 36 89 d7 89 44 24 0c e8 a3 91 02 00 8b 44 24
RSP: 002b:00007f041568be00 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000ffffffff RCX: 00007f041478d80a
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000559d
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007f041568bef0 R14: 00007f041568beb0 R15: 00007f040a400000
 </TASK>
vkms_vblank_simulate: vblank timer overrun

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/15 16:10 upstream f83ec76bf285 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr
2025/08/11 22:34 upstream 8f5ae30d69d7 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr
2025/09/14 18:41 linux-next 590b221ed425 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr
2025/09/13 08:47 linux-next 590b221ed425 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr
2025/08/24 06:33 linux-next 7fa4d8dc380f bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root INFO: task hung in vfs_removexattr
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.