A method and a device for file transfer protocol (FTP) deadlock detection and self recovery are provided by the disclosure in order to solve the sudden deadlock problem in the FTP upload operation. The method includes: if a daemon determines that a deadlock occurs in an FTP upload task by a heartbeat detection mechanism, the socket resources used by the FTP upload operation is recorded at the storage location in a socket resource cycle queue, and an FTP upload task end process is started; determining whether the socket resource cycle queue is full, if it is not full, the socket resource information occupied by the current deadlock is put into the socket resource cycle queue, otherwise, the earliest socket resources in the socket resource cycle queue are released, and the socket resource information occupied by the current deadlock is put into the socket resource cycle queue.