WARNING in kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/10/05 03:17
Subsystems: kvm
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+db7bd0f41c2a7e82d4ba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d04h, last: 2d03h
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1609d67b assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ WARNING in kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory 2026/10/04 00:57 2026/10/04 00:57 2026/10/04 01:57 57bbd979
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[syzbot] [kvm?] WARNING in kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory 1 (2) 2026/10/05 03:52

Sample crash report:
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r == 0 || r == -EIO
WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4389 at kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory+0x45d/0x470 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4389, CPU#1: syz-executor267/8523
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 8523 Comm: syz-executor267 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
RIP: 0010:kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory+0x45d/0x470 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4389
Code: fe ff ff e8 85 2e 88 00 90 0f 0b 90 e9 0d ff ff ff e8 77 2e 88 00 e8 42 85 f3 ff eb 8f e8 6b 2e 88 00 eb 05 e8 64 2e 88 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 a7 fe ff ff 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc900024dfc28 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff813fe025 RBX: ffffc900024dfe00 RCX: ffff88807fcc0000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8eaf6510 RDI: fffffffffffffffb
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffff88807fcc0000 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: fffffffffffffffb R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffc900024dfe00
R13: ffff88807fcc0000 R14: 1ffff1100ff98000 R15: fffffffffffffffb
FS:  00007f9c411186c0(0000) GS:ffff888124dc7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f9c4116312d CR3: 0000000026a4a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x8a6/0xfd0 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4668
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f9c4118db49
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 d0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f9c411181d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9c4123bb88 RCX: 00007f9c4118db49
RDX: 0000200000000100 RSI: 00000000c040aed5 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f9c4123bb80 R08: 38203a6b63617473 R09: 38203a6b63617473
R10: 38203a6b63617473 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f9c4120b858
R13: 0000200000000118 R14: 0000200000000100 R15: 0000200000000600
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/03 04:34 upstream ce1e0223d8ad 57bbd979 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory
2026/10/03 03:19 upstream ce1e0223d8ad 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.