Re: INFO: task hung in __filemap_get_folio

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Tue Jan 04 2022 - 16:00:45 EST


On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 06:18:23PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 07:44:10PM +0800, kvartet wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When using Syzkaller to fuzz the latest Linux kernel, the following
> > crash was triggered.
>
> This isn't a crash, it's a notification of a hang. More than likely
> syzbot is playing with RT scheduling again.
>
> We do not need more people running syzbot. We need more people tracking
> down and fixing the syzbot reports that already exist.

One of the syzbot spam reported by kvartet was a hang in the jbd2
layer, while it was waiting for processes to complete running handles,
and the oom killer lock was reported as being involved. At which
point, I stopped reading or caring about *any* of the syzbot
complaints being reported by kvartet....

- Ted