WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks (6)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/27 22:06
Subsystems: dri
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+45bc7264de77caad91cb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 75d, last: 5d12h
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936efca7 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks (6) 2026/06/02 09:03 2026/06/02 09:03 2026/06/02 09:58 1095583b
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[syzbot] [dri?] WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks (6) 0 (1) 2026/05/27 22:06
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks (5) dri -1 syz 464 88d 240d 29/29 fixed on 2026/05/21 07:49
upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks (3) dri -1 14 749d 802d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/27 07:41
upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks (2) dri -1 1 1550d 1546d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/09/07 08:02
upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks (4) dri -1 2 406d 432d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/04 15:38
upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks dri -1 1 1679d 1675d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/01 08:40

Sample crash report:
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[CRTC:39:crtc-0] vblank wait timed out
WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1921 at drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x738/0x8a0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1921, CPU#1: syz.2.236/6697
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6697 Comm: syz.2.236 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x73e/0x8a0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1921
Code: 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 f9 48 c1 e9 03 0f b6 04 01 84 c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 44 01 00 00 48 8d 3d 38 89 60 0b 8b b3 d0 00 00 00 <67> 48 0f b9 3a e9 e1 fc ff ff e8 43 ba 3c fc e9 7c fe ff ff e8 e9
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005e87798 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888100fe0040 RCX: 1ffff110201fc022
RDX: ffff888027819f80 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffffffff912e30c0
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88803a4fb700
FS:  000055559427c500(0000) GS:ffff8880d5ed8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c43237e CR3: 000000003413c000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1895 [inline]
 drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail+0xff/0x130 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1997
 commit_tail+0x338/0x430 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:2074
 drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x303/0x380 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:2312
 drm_atomic_commit+0x230/0x300 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c:1789
 drm_client_modeset_commit_atomic+0x6a6/0x7e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c:1104
 drm_client_modeset_commit_locked+0x14d/0x580 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c:1207
 drm_client_modeset_commit+0x4f/0x80 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c:1233
 __drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked.part.0+0x137/0x160 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c:138
 __drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c:126 [inline]
 drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked+0x93/0xc0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c:169
 drm_fbdev_client_restore+0x1b/0x30 drivers/gpu/drm/clients/drm_fbdev_client.c:45
 drm_client_dev_restore+0x205/0x2a0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_event.c:118
 drm_lastclose drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:408 [inline]
 drm_release+0x2c6/0x360 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:441
 __fput+0x3ff/0xb50 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x150/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:70 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1d8/0x6f0 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x666/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa6ac79e019
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:00007ffd6e986748 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffd6e986830 RCX: 00007fa6ac79e019
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000014543 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b32620000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd6e986870
R13: 00007fa6aca25fac R14: 0000000000014578 R15: 00007fa6aca25fa0
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   2:	00 fc                	add    %bh,%ah
   4:	ff                   	lcall  (bad)
   5:	df 48 89             	fisttps -0x77(%rax)
   8:	f9                   	stc
   9:	48 c1 e9 03          	shr    $0x3,%rcx
   d:	0f b6 04 01          	movzbl (%rcx,%rax,1),%eax
  11:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  13:	74 08                	je     0x1d
  15:	3c 03                	cmp    $0x3,%al
  17:	0f 8e 44 01 00 00    	jle    0x161
  1d:	48 8d 3d 38 89 60 0b 	lea    0xb608938(%rip),%rdi        # 0xb60895c
  24:	8b b3 d0 00 00 00    	mov    0xd0(%rbx),%esi
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	e9 e1 fc ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffd15
  34:	e8 43 ba 3c fc       	call   0xfc3cba7c
  39:	e9 7c fe ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffeba
  3e:	e8                   	.byte 0xe8
  3f:	e9                   	.byte 0xe9

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/01 22:08 upstream 02dc699f83d0 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
2026/07/04 00:23 upstream d2c9a99135da aa437a8a .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
2026/07/01 17:25 upstream 665159e24674 5fb9973c .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
2026/06/30 03:30 upstream dc59e4fea9d8 fff8d0a0 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
2026/06/27 20:50 upstream 5a66900afbd6 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
2026/06/26 20:11 upstream 51cb1aa1250c fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
2026/06/21 21:39 upstream 8cd8cf7a07e5 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
2026/06/19 06:24 upstream 9e7e66334583 d7ffd47b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
2026/05/23 21:56 upstream 79bd2dded182 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.