WARNING in virtio_dev_remove

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/31 06:23
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+e2b16532e54989c38312@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d08h, last: 1d09h
Bug presence (1)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/08/03 upstream (ToT) 075b74841bd0 C [report] WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in virtio_dev_remove virt prio:low -1 syz, C error 17 1d15h 3d15h 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/01 00:00
linux-6.6 WARNING in virtio_dev_remove -1 4 1d05h 1d06h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/08/03 08:22
linux-5.15 WARNING in virtio_dev_remove -1 syz, C 3 1d15h 1d16h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/02 22:27
android-6-12 WARNING in virtio_dev_remove -1 syz, C 4 5d03h 5d04h 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2026/07/30 10:31

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4427 at drivers/virtio/virtio.c:335 virtio_dev_remove+0x16f/0x1a0 drivers/virtio/virtio.c:335
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 4427 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:virtio_dev_remove+0x16f/0x1a0 drivers/virtio/virtio.c:335
Code: 08 48 89 df e8 92 f4 5f fd 4c 89 f7 ff 13 0c 01 0f b6 f0 4c 89 f7 4c 89 e0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d ff e0 e8 b1 c7 0e fd <0f> 0b e9 78 ff ff ff 44 89 e9 80 e1 07 38 c1 0f 8c d8 fe ff ff 4c
RSP: 0018:ffffc900034378c0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8473666f RBX: ffff88801df58500 RCX: ffff888079708000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00000000000000ff R08: ffffffff90b10277 R09: 1ffffffff216204e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff216204f R12: 1ffff11003beb0a0
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88801df58000 R15: ffffffff8aeb95b8
FS:  0000555557d2c500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007efca39bc368 CR3: 0000000029401000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:547 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1279 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x47d/0x7c0 drivers/base/dd.c:1305
 bus_remove_device+0x2dd/0x400 drivers/base/bus.c:531
 device_del+0x63f/0xa80 drivers/base/core.c:3900
 device_unregister+0x1c/0xc0 drivers/base/core.c:3943
 unregister_virtio_device+0x33/0x60 drivers/virtio/virtio.c:483
 virtio_pci_remove+0x7b/0xf0 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:600
 pci_device_remove+0x93/0x230 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:483
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:547 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1279 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x47d/0x7c0 drivers/base/dd.c:1305
 pci_stop_dev drivers/pci/remove.c:22 [inline]
 pci_stop_bus_device+0x108/0x140 drivers/pci/remove.c:82
 pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device drivers/pci/remove.c:116 [inline]
 pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x16/0x30 drivers/pci/remove.c:124
 remove_store+0xe2/0x140 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:515
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a0/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2265 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x482/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x14d/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fdbf2d9e019
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:00007ffe476b7408 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdbf3025fa0 RCX: 00007fdbf2d9e019
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000200000000200 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fdbf2e3500c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdbf3025fac R14: 00007fdbf3025fa0 R15: 00007fdbf3025fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/02 15:06 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 e611ffe1 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/08/02 14:12 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 e611ffe1 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/08/03 06:01 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/08/03 06:00 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/31 06:23 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/31 06:22 linux-6.1.y fb28aa725e05 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.