INFO: trying to register non-static key in stats_request (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/22 00:11
Subsystems: virt
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+13df72e0dc4be5c62215@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d15h, last: 5d15h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
bbdecde3 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ✅ INFO: trying to register non-static key in stats_request (2) 2026/08/19 01:51 2026/08/19 01:51 2026/08/19 02:06 1e72964b
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Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: trying to register non-static key in stats_request virt -1 2 644d 642d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/25 02:00

Sample crash report:
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 20235 Comm: irq/10-virtio2 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 assign_lock_key+0x133/0x150 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:984
 register_lock_class+0xcc/0x2e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1299
 __lock_acquire+0xab/0x2ce0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5112
 lock_acquire+0x106/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
 rt_spin_lock+0x83/0x400 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:56
 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:45 [inline]
 start_wakeup_event drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c:150 [inline]
 stats_request+0xa5/0x1f0 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c:435
 vring_interrupt+0x408/0x680 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:3297
 vp_vring_interrupt drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:92 [inline]
 vp_interrupt+0x183/0x200 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:123
 irq_thread_fn kernel/irq/manage.c:1143 [inline]
 irq_forced_thread_fn+0x98/0x120 kernel/irq/manage.c:1165
 irq_thread+0x455/0x690 kernel/irq/manage.c:1271
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/17 11:11 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root INFO: trying to register non-static key in stats_request
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.