WARNING in kvm_put_kvm (3)

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/09 19:14
Subsystems: kvm
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+d4faf7db59e11f6fd1ab@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d09h, last: 10h45m
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e4ed1a8c assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in kvm_put_kvm (3) 2026/08/09 01:24 2026/08/09 01:24 2026/08/09 02:29 5d63f80b
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[syzbot] [kvm?] WARNING in kvm_put_kvm (3) 0 (1) 2026/08/09 19:14
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in kvm_put_kvm (2) bcachefs -1 18 574d 655d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/14 05:33
android-6-12 WARNING in kvm_put_kvm origin:downstream -1 syz, C 38585 335d 395d 0/1 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/29 15:36
upstream WARNING in kvm_put_kvm kvm -1 14 775d 784d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2024/08/16 18:20
Cause bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/10 14:08 0m bisect linux-next error

Sample crash report:
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timer_delete_sync(&sdp->delay_work)
WARNING: kernel/rcu/srcutree.c:706 at cleanup_srcu_struct+0x3aa/0x890 kernel/rcu/srcutree.c:706, CPU#1: syz.1.1070/8126
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 8126 Comm: syz.1.1070 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:cleanup_srcu_struct+0x3aa/0x890 kernel/rcu/srcutree.c:706
Code: b9 8a 00 48 83 7d 00 00 4c 8b 74 24 10 0f 85 dd 03 00 00 41 ff c5 41 83 e5 0f 41 83 fd 07 0f 86 0e ff ff ff e9 ab 00 00 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 4c 8d b5 00 02 00 00 4c 89 f3 48 c1 eb 03 48 b8 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000bbbfc50 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000607edad41c80 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e253559 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffe8ffffc4dc80 R08: ffffffff9058fb7f R09: 1ffffffff20b1f6f
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff20b1f70 R12: ffff88807bfa8000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8e5237d0 R15: 1ffffffff1ca47de
FS:  000055557293c500(0000) GS:ffff88812500c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000071042000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 kvm_destroy_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1303 [inline]
 kvm_put_kvm+0x9cb/0xb50 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1332
 kvm_vm_release+0x43/0x50 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1355
 __fput+0x418/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 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+0x22e/0x770 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:336 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x328/0x510 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f25cc99e0d9
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:00007ffed2b09948 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffed2b09a30 RCX: 00007f25cc99e0d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000051665 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b2d520000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffed2b09a70
R13: 00007f25ccc25fac R14: 00000000000516bf R15: 00007f25ccc25fa0
 </TASK>

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/08 23:50 linux-next 6b8c8af514d7 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kvm_put_kvm
2026/08/08 22:09 linux-next 6b8c8af514d7 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kvm_put_kvm
2026/08/08 20:33 linux-next 6b8c8af514d7 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kvm_put_kvm
2026/08/08 19:28 linux-next 6b8c8af514d7 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kvm_put_kvm
2026/08/08 15:12 linux-next 6b8c8af514d7 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kvm_put_kvm
2026/08/10 10:29 linux-next 6b8c8af514d7 558388e4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kvm_put_kvm
2026/08/08 11:54 linux-next 6b8c8af514d7 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kvm_put_kvm
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.