WARNING in va_alloc

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/01 00:24
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+61c997e6be1d9bb300ba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d04h, last: 8h54m
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
78d3da9b assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ✅ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in va_alloc 2026/07/29 01:14 2026/07/29 01:14 2026/07/29 01:57 7be3c40b

			
		
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Do not warn on -ENOMEM from va_alloc() 1 (1) 2026/08/02 10:46
[syzbot] [mm?] WARNING in va_alloc 0 (1) 2026/08/01 00:24

Sample crash report:
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ret
WARNING: mm/vmalloc.c:1820 at va_alloc+0xeb/0xec0 mm/vmalloc.c:1820, CPU#0: syz.3.65/6057
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6057 Comm: syz.3.65 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:va_alloc+0xeb/0xec0 mm/vmalloc.c:1820
Code: 08 4c 89 ef e8 26 86 10 00 4d 8b 7d 00 48 89 df 4c 89 fe e8 27 15 a7 ff 4c 39 fb 76 27 e8 7d 12 a7 ff 49 c7 c6 ea ff ff ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 4c 89 f0 48 83 c4 58 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 0c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90006517610 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff821ed6fa RBX: ffffc9001c401000 RCX: ffff8880278c0000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88801da97270 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 1ffffffff1c6134e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c6134f R12: 1ffff11003b52e4e
R13: ffffc9001be00000 R14: fffffffffffffff4 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f0f76cc56c0(0000) GS:ffff888125c3e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00002000000783f4 CR3: 00000000297e2000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __alloc_vmap_area mm/vmalloc.c:1855 [inline]
 alloc_vmap_area+0x907/0x1420 mm/vmalloc.c:2073
 __get_vm_area_node+0x1f2/0x300 mm/vmalloc.c:3226
 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x358/0x1730 mm/vmalloc.c:4042
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x650/0x8a0 mm/slub.c:6933
 _kvmalloc_array_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1371 [inline]
 __rhtab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch+0x2f2/0xcb0 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:3281
 bpf_map_do_batch+0x288/0x640 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5828
 __sys_bpf+0xa9f/0xd90 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:-1
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6537 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6534 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bpf+0xba/0xd0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6534
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0f78a8e019
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f0f76cc5028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0f78d16090 RCX: 00007f0f78a8e019
RDX: 0000000000000038 RSI: 0000200000000400 RDI: 0000000000000018
RBP: 00007f0f76cc5090 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007f0f78d16128 R14: 00007f0f78d16090 R15: 00007ffd52825078
 </TASK>

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/02 08:14 upstream 2d2338c93da7 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in va_alloc
2026/07/30 14:06 upstream 11028ab62899 0a1bc234 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in va_alloc
2026/07/30 08:53 upstream fc46aed51f62 2377cd3d .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in va_alloc
2026/07/29 01:25 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 19622d9d .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in va_alloc
2026/07/28 21:45 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab 5fe7c56f .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in va_alloc
2026/07/28 01:50 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in va_alloc
2026/07/27 13:07 upstream f5098b6bae76 1f273138 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in va_alloc
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.