WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/22 00:10
Subsystems: block
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+49b69d460fb5134ee1d7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 55d, last: 1d00h
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c5e0bdfa repro-c 💥 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list 2026/09/24 05:12 2026/09/24 05:12 2026/09/24 08:15 3c3cdf19
b4e27120 repro-c 💥 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list 2026/09/06 20:06 2026/09/06 21:24 2026/09/07 09:02 4f7b22a0
cda555e1 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list 2026/08/19 00:00 2026/08/19 00:00 2026/08/19 01:06 1e72964b
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[syzbot] Monthly block report (Oct 2026) 0 (1) 2026/10/06 20:33
[syzbot] [block?] WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list 0 (1) 2026/08/22 00:10

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: block/blk-mq.c:2120 at blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x960/0x13a8 block/blk-mq.c:2120, CPU#0: kworker/0:1H/4387
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 4387 Comm: kworker/0:1H Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/23/2026
Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x960/0x13a8 block/blk-mq.c:2120
lr : blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x960/0x13a8 block/blk-mq.c:2120
sp : ffff8000954f77e0
x29: ffff8000954f78c0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0000c905a880
x26: 1fffe00019255302 x25: ffff0000c92a9848 x24: ffff0000c905a800
x23: dfff800000000000 x22: ffff0000c92a9810 x21: ffff8000954f7a48
x20: ffff8000954f7a40 x19: ffff0000c905a948 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: 0000000000000003 x16: ffff800089797000 x15: ffff80008b44b000
x14: ffff80008bc832b0 x13: 0000000000000002 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffff700012a9ef12 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : ffff80008b7847e0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000010
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000c5a83b00 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x960/0x13a8 block/blk-mq.c:2120 (P)
 __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x250/0x10e8 block/blk-mq-sched.c:299
 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xa8/0x158 block/blk-mq-sched.c:329
 blk_mq_run_work_fn+0x214/0x2e4 block/blk-mq.c:2545
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x91c/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
 worker_thread+0x798/0xbd0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x304/0x3d4 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:854
irq event stamp: 8580
hardirqs last  enabled at (8579): [<ffff80008689d7c4>] __raw_spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:219 [inline]
hardirqs last  enabled at (8579): [<ffff80008689d7c4>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x80 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:229
hardirqs last disabled at (8580): [<ffff8000868792bc>] el1_brk64+0x20/0x54 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:483
softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffff8000802e93c0>] copy_process+0x12bc/0x34c4 kernel/fork.c:2260
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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WARNING: block/blk.h:703 at req_ref_put_and_test block/blk.h:703 [inline], CPU#0: kworker/0:1H/4387
WARNING: block/blk.h:703 at blk_mq_free_request+0x190/0x210 block/blk-mq.c:842, CPU#0: kworker/0:1H/4387
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 4387 Comm: kworker/0:1H Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/23/2026
Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : req_ref_put_and_test block/blk.h:703 [inline]
pc : blk_mq_free_request+0x190/0x210 block/blk-mq.c:842
lr : req_ref_put_and_test block/blk.h:703 [inline]
lr : blk_mq_free_request+0x190/0x210 block/blk-mq.c:842
sp : ffff8000954f7730
x29: ffff8000954f7730 x28: ffff700012a9ef0c x27: ffff0000c92a9800
x26: ffff0000c5a83b00 x25: 1fffe00019255303 x24: 1fffe00019255320
x23: dfff800000000000 x22: dfff800000000000 x21: ffff0000c92a989c
x20: 000000000000007f x19: ffff0000c92a9800 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: 0000000000000003 x16: ffff800089797000 x15: ffff80008b44b000
x14: 00000000001b2f37 x13: 0000000000000001 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffff600019255314 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : ffff8000817a538c x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff800081780934
x2 : 000000000000007f x1 : ffff0000c5a83b00 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 req_ref_put_and_test block/blk.h:703 [inline] (P)
 blk_mq_free_request+0x190/0x210 block/blk-mq.c:842 (P)
 __blk_mq_end_request+0x32c/0x434 block/blk-mq.c:-1
 blk_mq_end_request+0x68/0x8c block/blk-mq.c:1162
 blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x410/0x13a8 block/blk-mq.c:2142
 __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x250/0x10e8 block/blk-mq-sched.c:299
 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xa8/0x158 block/blk-mq-sched.c:329
 blk_mq_run_work_fn+0x214/0x2e4 block/blk-mq.c:2545
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x91c/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
 worker_thread+0x798/0xbd0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x304/0x3d4 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:854
irq event stamp: 8846
hardirqs last  enabled at (8845): [<ffff800080541a04>] seqcount_lockdep_reader_access+0x7c/0xf8 include/linux/seqlock.h:75
hardirqs last disabled at (8846): [<ffff8000868792bc>] el1_brk64+0x20/0x54 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:483
softirqs last  enabled at (8838): [<ffff80008030a6dc>] softirq_handle_end kernel/softirq.c:491 [inline]
softirqs last  enabled at (8838): [<ffff80008030a6dc>] handle_softirqs+0xb2c/0xcbc kernel/softirq.c:673
softirqs last disabled at (8583): [<ffff8000800203f0>] __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:679
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Crashes (24):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/11 10:15 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 71c3e5409eef 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/10/07 17:26 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 71c3e5409eef 6520ecdb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/10/07 17:07 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 71c3e5409eef 6520ecdb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/10/04 16:44 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci fe98fb51bf62 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/30 08:51 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci e8e60d3ddd25 7808aef4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/25 22:35 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci e8e60d3ddd25 f281d9d2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/24 18:43 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7dc79bb50ab6 3c3cdf19 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/24 13:09 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7dc79bb50ab6 3c3cdf19 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/20 13:28 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 38872197cae2 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/17 22:52 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/15 12:28 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 81a27d1a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/14 11:15 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 924033e8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/11 12:50 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 b6a5eeb7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/09 14:53 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 8387c273 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/08 03:30 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 680aa3e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/05 02:28 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/09/04 18:59 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 3f042c7b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/08/29 08:15 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci f1b8fa82cab7 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/08/28 14:31 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci f1b8fa82cab7 bcbc8ceb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/08/26 15:52 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 68f892e99df9 6a91adb4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/08/24 13:22 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 23caa175 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/08/20 19:30 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/08/18 08:11 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
2026/08/17 19:24 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.