WARNING in virtio_dev_remove

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/01 00:00
Subsystems: virt
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+a1c8effc62c569d4bd25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d10h, last: 20h46m
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [virt?] WARNING in virtio_dev_remove 1 (2) 2026/08/01 00:15
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 WARNING in virtio_dev_remove origin:upstream -1 syz, C 6 14h57m 3d14h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/31 06:23
linux-6.6 WARNING in virtio_dev_remove -1 4 11h33m 12h36m 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/08/03 08:22
linux-5.15 WARNING in virtio_dev_remove -1 syz, C 3 21h36m 22h31m 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/02 22:27
android-6-12 WARNING in virtio_dev_remove -1 syz, C 4 4d09h 4d10h 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2026/07/30 10:31

Sample crash report:
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dev->config->get_status(dev)
WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio.c:378 at virtio_dev_remove+0x18b/0x1b0 drivers/virtio/virtio.c:378, CPU#0: syz-executor501/5611
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5611 Comm: syz-executor501 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:virtio_dev_remove+0x18b/0x1b0 drivers/virtio/virtio.c:378
Code: 4c 89 f7 2e 2e 2e 41 ff d3 0c 01 0f b6 f0 4c 89 f7 4d 89 fb 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d 2e e9 cb 7e c1 1a e8 96 50 87 fc 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 6e ff ff ff 44 89 e9 80 e1 07 38 c1 0f 8c c2 fe ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000430f7d8 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff853e8a5a RBX: ffff8880207766d0 RCX: ffff8880121c8000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00000000000000ff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff8540e710 R12: 1ffff110040eecda
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff888020776000 R15: ffffffff8bd67c98
FS:  0000555584740400(0000) GS:ffff888125c41000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fe020e42e9c CR3: 000000003c1e4000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:616 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1349 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x48b/0x880 drivers/base/dd.c:1372
 bus_remove_device+0x449/0x560 drivers/base/bus.c:664
 device_del+0x528/0x8f0 drivers/base/core.c:3961
 device_unregister+0x21/0xf0 drivers/base/core.c:4002
 unregister_virtio_device+0x37/0x60 drivers/virtio/virtio.c:594
 virtio_pci_remove+0x7f/0xf0 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:758
 pci_device_remove+0x99/0x1c0 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:512
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:616 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1349 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x48b/0x880 drivers/base/dd.c:1372
 pci_stop_dev drivers/pci/remove.c:27 [inline]
 pci_stop_bus_device+0xf6/0x120 drivers/pci/remove.c:93
 pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device drivers/pci/remove.c:128 [inline]
 pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x77/0xb0 drivers/pci/remove.c:136
 remove_store+0xe5/0x150 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:523
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a5/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x61e/0xbb0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f5f1782a589
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:00007ffded968938 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f5f1782a589
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000200000000200 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000006 R09: 0000000000000006
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffded968aa8
R13: 431bde82d7b634db R14: 00007f5f178bdc40 R15: 0000000000000002
 </TASK>

Crashes (17):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/30 16:09 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 15:18 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 14:54 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 14:06 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 13:44 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 12:47 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 12:34 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/08/03 00:12 upstream bd1dde877520 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/08/03 00:12 upstream bd1dde877520 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/08/03 00:07 upstream bd1dde877520 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/08/03 00:07 upstream bd1dde877520 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/08/02 23:39 upstream bd1dde877520 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 13:21 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 11:19 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 11:17 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 10:24 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
2026/07/30 10:23 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs WARNING in virtio_dev_remove
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.