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WARNING in x86_emulate_insn (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/24 14:40
Subsystems: kvm-x86
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Reported-by: syzbot+fa52a184ebce1b30ad49@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 113d, last: 14d
Discussions (1)
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[syzbot] [kvm-x86?] WARNING in x86_emulate_insn (2) 1 (3) 2025/11/24 21:13
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-12 WARNING in x86_emulate_insn origin:upstream -1 syz 1 14d 14d 0/1 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2026/03/03 07:34
upstream WARNING in x86_emulate_insn kvm-x86 -1 C error 309 2977d 3023d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/11/07 10:18
Last patch testing requests (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/02/16 13:21 40m retest repro linux-next report log
2026/02/16 13:12 31m retest repro linux-next report log
2025/12/08 11:27 38m retest repro linux-next report log
2025/11/24 20:20 23m seanjc@google.com https://github.com/sean-jc/linux.git x86/emulator_no_avx report log

Sample crash report:
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__ret
WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:5560 at x86_emulate_insn+0x2a5f/0x43d0 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:5560, CPU#1: syz.2.45/6172
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6172 Comm: syz.2.45 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:x86_emulate_insn+0x2a5f/0x43d0 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:5560
Code: 36 31 ff 44 89 f6 e8 80 26 7a 00 45 85 f6 0f 84 fb 01 00 00 e8 32 22 7a 00 41 be 01 00 00 00 e9 25 fd ff ff e8 22 22 7a 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 48 8b 44 24 70 80 3c 18 00 74 0a 48 8b 7c 24 58 e8 99 62
RSP: 0018:ffffc900037a76c0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff814bcbae RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffff8880349d9e80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: 000000000000001f
RBP: ffffc900037a77f0 R08: ffff8880349d9e80 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 1ffff920006f4eec
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 00000000000000ff R15: ffff88802a968000
FS:  00007f18cff2c6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881250f7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000002cea4000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 x86_emulate_instruction+0xef0/0x2100 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9558
 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x17f7/0x20d0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12008
 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0xa62/0xfd0 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4476
 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:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f18cef9c799
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:00007f18cff2c028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f18cf215fa0 RCX: 00007f18cef9c799
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ae80 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f18cf032bd9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f18cf216038 R14: 00007f18cf215fa0 R15: 00007ffd5a47d688
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/03 09:13 linux-next d517cb8cea01 28b83e23 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING in x86_emulate_insn
2025/11/24 10:36 linux-next d724c6f85e80 4fb8ef37 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING in x86_emulate_insn
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.