[PATCH 0/2] virtio_pci_modern: fix vp_reset() hang on unresponsive device
Abhin Parekadan Jose <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 17:40:57 +0000
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While investigating a syzbot report of a WARN_ON_ONCE firing in
virtio_dev_remove() [1], I found a related but more serious issue:
vp_reset() in the modern virtio-pci transport can hang indefinitely
if PCI_COMMAND memory-space decode is disabled while the device is
bound (e.g. surprise removal, hardware fault, or -- as reproduced
here -- a direct write to the PCI_COMMAND register). The status
register poll loop has no way to distinguish "device still resetting"
from "device unreachable," so it never terminates.
Patch 1 adds a VIRTIO_STATUS_ERROR() check that recognizes an
all-ones status read as invalid (per spec, bits 4-5 are reserved and
can never legitimately be set) and warns once at the point the bad
read actually happens.
Patch 2 uses that check to break out of vp_reset()'s poll loop
instead of spinning forever.
Reproduced on a modern-transport virtio-blk-pci device:
# printf '\x00\x00' | dd of=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/config \
bs=1 seek=4 count=2 conv=notrunc
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/remove
The second command hangs indefinitely without this series; gdb
confirms the CPU is stuck in vp_reset()'s status-polling loop, with
vp_modern_get_status() consistently returning 0xff.
[1] https://syzbot.org/bug?extid=a1c8effc62c569d4bd25
Abhin Parekadan Jose (2):
virtio_pci_modern_dev: warn once on invalid status
virtio_pci_modern: avoid infinite loop in vp_reset() on invalid status
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 6 +++++-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern_dev.c | 8 +++++++-
include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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