INFO: task hung in relay_close (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/09/15 20:43
Subsystems: block trace
Labels: prio:low
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First crash: 147d, last: 98d
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b5ab6595 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ INFO: task hung in relay_close (2) 2026/05/23 22:34 2026/05/23 22:34 2026/05/23 23:35 c69befb3
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: task hung in relay_close block trace 1 3 496d 516d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/14 10:47

Sample crash report:
INFO: task syz.3.3567:13051 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.3.3567      state:D stack:27784 pid:13051 tgid:13050 ppid:10404  task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5504 [inline]
 __schedule+0x125c/0x6730 kernel/sched/core.c:7228
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7307 [inline]
 schedule+0xdd/0x390 kernel/sched/core.c:7322
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7379
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:726 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0xccc/0x1bd0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:821
 relay_close kernel/relay.c:657 [inline]
 relay_close+0x32/0x4b0 kernel/relay.c:649
 blk_trace_free+0x37/0x170 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:471
 blk_trace_cleanup kernel/trace/blktrace.c:539 [inline]
 __blk_trace_remove+0x81/0x180 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:552
 blk_trace_remove kernel/trace/blktrace.c:562 [inline]
 blk_trace_ioctl+0x26b/0x320 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:952
 blkdev_common_ioctl+0x170c/0x2b80 block/ioctl.c:717
 blkdev_ioctl+0x43b/0x6f0 block/ioctl.c:791
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x840 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdc3879ce59
RSP: 002b:00007fdc39592028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdc38a15fa0 RCX: 00007fdc3879ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000001276 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fdc38832d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdc38a16038 R14: 00007fdc38a15fa0 R15: 00007fff2cec8998
 </TASK>
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 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 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>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/17 20:35 upstream 5b33fc6492a7 b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto INFO: task hung in relay_close
2026/04/30 08:04 upstream 57b8e2d666a3 005438fc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce INFO: task hung in relay_close
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.