WARNING in x86_emulate_insn

Status: premoderation: reported syz repro on 2026/03/03 07:34
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+3c7c62a818c372aa5d07@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 181d, last: 1d12h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/03/03 lts (merge base) ff2177382799 syz [report] WARNING in x86_emulate_insn
2026/03/03 upstream (ToT) af4e9ef3d784 syz [report] WARNING in x86_emulate_insn
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in x86_emulate_insn (2) prio:high kvm-x86 -1 syz, C 3 83d 280d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/24 14:40
upstream WARNING in x86_emulate_insn kvm-x86 -1 syz, C error 309 3145d 3191d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/11/07 10:18
Last patch testing requests (3)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/15 20:30 12m retest repro android16-6.12 report job log log
2026/05/26 18:50 46m retest repro android16-6.12 log
2026/03/17 13:18 8m retest repro android16-6.12 report log

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1675 at arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:5392 x86_emulate_insn+0x2a7a/0x4140 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:5392
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1675 Comm: syz.3.404 Not tainted syzkaller #0 28bb5670a1b4a83370a1b0f1e6655e31af14d592
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:x86_emulate_insn+0x2a7a/0x4140 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:5392
Code: 8b 36 31 ff 44 89 f6 e8 14 cc 67 00 45 85 f6 0f 84 24 02 00 00 e8 c6 c7 67 00 41 bc 01 00 00 00 e9 06 da ff ff e8 b6 c7 67 00 <0f> 0b 48 8b 45 98 42 80 3c 38 00 74 09 48 8b 7d a0 e8 10 a2 c0 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004b6f800 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff811fa98a RBX: 000304000010220a RCX: ffff88811881a600
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: 000000000000001f
RBP: ffffc90004b6f8c0 R08: ffff88811881a600 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88810ef16d60
R13: 1ffff11021de2dbb R14: 00000000000000ff R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007f439d5cf6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000116352000 CR4: 00000000003526b0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 x86_emulate_instruction+0xbf7/0x19f0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9272
 kvm_emulate_instruction arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9354 [inline]
 complete_emulated_io arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11487 [inline]
 complete_emulated_pio+0x64/0x80 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11494
 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x1381/0x1bc0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11668
 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0xa43/0x1000 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4526
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x123/0x1b0 fs/ioctl.c:892
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7f/0xa0 fs/ioctl.c:892
 x64_sys_call+0x1878/0x2ee0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x57/0xf0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f439c79e159
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:00007f439d5cf028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f439ca26090 RCX: 00007f439c79e159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ae80 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f439c835024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f439ca26128 R14: 00007f439ca26090 R15: 00007ffd0aa13a58
 </TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/30 17:17 android16-6.12 36bee94a7cf9 2f52988a .config strace log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust WARNING in x86_emulate_insn
2026/03/03 07:33 android16-6.12 a57a57875c30 28b83e23 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-12-rust WARNING in x86_emulate_insn
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.