WARNING in kvm_dirty_ring_push

Status: premoderation: reported C repro on 2026/09/22 21:08
Reported-by: syzbot+bf5c74fec4f73b04245d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d23h, last: 1d11h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in kvm_dirty_ring_push kvm -1 3 1754d 1773d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/04/05 04:57

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 311 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c:179 kvm_dirty_ring_push+0x22e/0x4b0 virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c:179
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 311 Comm: syz-executor286 Not tainted syzkaller #0 3ab14c716d19d9a156d32fd3ac537b1a2e52e776
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:kvm_dirty_ring_push+0x22e/0x4b0 virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c:179
Code: 7b 38 be 08 00 00 00 e8 80 10 ca 00 f0 80 4b 38 08 48 83 c4 20 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc e8 e2 29 71 00 <0f> 0b e9 7c fe ff ff 89 f9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 08 fe ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000121f6f8 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff811650ae RBX: ffff888108362180 RCX: ffff888105fda600
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000200 RDI: 0000000000000200
RBP: ffffc9000121f740 R08: ffffc90000d2234f R09: 1ffff920001a4469
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520001a446a R12: 0000000000000200
R13: 0000000000000200 R14: ffff888104b8dd04 R15: 1ffff1102106c701
FS:  00005555796113c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000062b5d8 CR3: 00000001037a2000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 mark_page_dirty_in_slot+0x1b8/0x2d0 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3656
 make_spte+0x6ad/0x8b0 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c:272
 tdp_mmu_map_handle_target_level arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c:1032 [inline]
 kvm_tdp_mmu_map+0xaa4/0x1250 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c:1179
 kvm_tdp_mmu_page_fault arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:4702 [inline]
 kvm_tdp_page_fault+0x285/0x320 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:4730
 kvm_mmu_do_page_fault+0x2bf/0x640 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h:326
 kvm_tdp_map_page arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:4752 [inline]
 kvm_arch_vcpu_pre_fault_memory+0x256/0x480 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:4803
 kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory+0x241/0x450 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4459
 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x89e/0x1000 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4689
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x126/0x1b0 fs/ioctl.c:892
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7f/0xa0 fs/ioctl.c:892
 x64_sys_call+0x1878/0x2ee0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x57/0xf0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f71f4996db9
Code: c0 79 93 eb d5 48 8d 7c 1d 00 eb 99 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 d8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fff50c6d5e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000200000000258 RCX: 00007f71f4996db9
RDX: 0000200000000240 RSI: 00000000c040aed5 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 0000200000000240 R08: 00007f71f4a2cc40 R09: 00007f71f4a2cc40
R10: 00007f71f4a2cc40 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000250
R13: 0000200000000278 R14: 00007f71f4a27ca0 R15: 0000200000000248
 </TASK>
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Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/22 23:03 android16-6.12 c8909f7cf138 5207b90e .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust WARNING in kvm_dirty_ring_push
2026/09/22 22:26 android16-6.12 c8909f7cf138 5207b90e .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust WARNING in kvm_dirty_ring_push
2026/09/22 21:48 android16-6.12 c8909f7cf138 5207b90e .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust WARNING in kvm_dirty_ring_push
2026/09/24 09:20 android16-6.12 a24919af1c4d 0281b448 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust WARNING in kvm_dirty_ring_push
2026/09/22 21:07 android16-6.12 c8909f7cf138 5207b90e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust WARNING in kvm_dirty_ring_push
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.