Re: [Kernel Bug] INFO: task hung in xt_find_table
From: Longxing Li <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-22 12:33:21
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Hi Jiayuan, Thanks for explaining the situation. I will double check this problem. Best regards, Longxing Li Jiayuan Chen [off-list ref] 于2026年6月10日周三 17:26写道:
On 6/10/26 3:14 PM, Longxing Li wrote:quoted
sorry for not containing report plain text in last email. the report is as follows: INFO: task syz-executor.4:42949 blocked for more than 143 seconds. Not tainted 7.0.6 #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:syz-executor.4 state:D stack:26456 pid:42949 tgid:42937 ppid:9759 task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002 Call Trace: <TASK> context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5298 [inline] __schedule+0x1006/0x5f00 kernel/sched/core.c:6911 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6993 [inline] schedule+0xe7/0x3a0 kernel/sched/core.c:7008 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7065 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:692 [inline] __mutex_lock+0xd9e/0x1df0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:776 xt_find_table+0x59/0x1a0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1245 ip6t_unregister_table_exit+0x22/0x50 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1808 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:199 [inline] ops_undo_list+0x2dd/0xa50 net/core/net_namespace.c:252 setup_net+0x1f3/0x3a0 net/core/net_namespace.c:462 copy_net_ns+0x351/0x7c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:579 create_new_namespaces+0x3f6/0xac0 kernel/nsproxy.c:130 copy_namespaces+0x45c/0x580 kernel/nsproxy.c:195 copy_process+0x30cc/0x76d0 kernel/fork.c:2227 kernel_clone+0xea/0x8f0 kernel/fork.c:2655 __do_sys_clone+0xce/0x120 kernel/fork.c:2796 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x11b/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x471ecd RSP: 002b:00007f51f163e008 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000059bf80 RCX: 0000000000471ecd RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000040080020 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000000000059bf8c R13: 000000000000000b R14: 000000000059bf80 R15: 00007f51f161e000 </TASK>This is not a deadlock — there's no lock cycle. The runner is simply under heavy pressure on all three axes: CPU (zswap compression) + memory (direct reclaim) + IO (swap). The hung task is just a victim. The actual holder is another task that took the mutex and then fell into direct reclaim. Likely stack of the holder: get_entries xt_find_table_lock copy_entries_to_user alloc_counters vzalloc -> direct reclaim "INFO: task hung" reports of this kind are common on the official syzkaller dashboard https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream/