KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers

Vulkan Validation Layers (VVL)

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Dominant language: C++
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Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
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281 open issues indexed

False positive image layout mismatch for VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BIT_EXT descriptors Open

ImageLayout

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#1519 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Missing validation logic for bufferImageGranularity Open

Incomplete

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#2510 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Push constant lifetimes not yet clarified (VUID 02698) Open

SpecChange

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#2711 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
shaderSampledImageArrayDynamicIndexing / shaderSampledImageArrayNonUniformIndexing not detected Open

Incomplete ShaderVal

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#2723 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
GPU-AV RT: Runtime SPIR-V Open

GPU-AV Incomplete RT

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#3289 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Runtime SPIR-V - subgroupBroadcastDynamicId Open

Incomplete ShaderVal

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#3305 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Check that `Dref` operations in shader match `compareEnable` on sampler Open

BestPractices ShaderVal

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#3641 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Reproducible device lost and reproducible DLL crash in toplevel Open

Bug

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#3681 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
CreateImage does not currently respect `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT_KHR` Open

Bug

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#3737 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
practices: massive memory use and performance problems from ARM Image layout checks Open

BestPractices Performance

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#3823 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
missing sparse binding validation Open

Incomplete

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4047 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 2 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
VK_ERROR_FULL_SCREEN_EXCLUSIVE_MODE_LOST_EXT Open

WSI

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4064 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Validation reports Push constant buffer [...] is out of range when using specialization constant in array size declaration Open

ShaderVal

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4065 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Missing validation on usage of VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR Open

ImageLayout Incomplete WSI

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4309 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Clarification about (or possible validation bug) with VkImageSwapchainCreateInfoKHR Open

WSI

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4343 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
SYNC-HAZARD-READ_AFTER_WRITE: false positive with VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock Open

Synchronization

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4387 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Occasional crash in `GetLayerDataPtr<ValidationObject>` Open

Bug

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4391 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
syncval: Support VK_EXT_rasterization_order_attachment_access Open

Synchronization

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4476 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Validation seems to be ignoring VK_KHR_image_format_list and VK_KHR_maintenance2 Open

Android

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4520 · 11 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Proposal: debug naming of subresources and transient identity resources Open

Enhancement

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4585 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Bug in VUID-VkDescriptorImageInfo-imageLayout-00344 Open

ImageLayout

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4646 · 12 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
crashes on Linux/NVidia from ctest --tests-regex Semaphore -j 20 Open

CI/Tests

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4821 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
replace state tracker callbacks with state object virtual methods Open

Enhancement

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4902 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Race condition in validation of VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations functions Open

Synchronization

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#4914 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Memory leaks when call down vkCreateInstance fails or other Vulkan API calls fail inside of vkCreateInstance Open

Bug

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5076 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Make sure Cross Device layout transition are handled Open

Bug

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5177 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Missing External memory/sync VUs Open

Incomplete

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5431 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Fix Multiplane aspect bit Immutable Sampler test Open

CI/Tests SpecChange

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5591 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
GPU-AV RT: VkTraceRaysIndirectCommand2KHR Open

GPU-AV Incomplete RT

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5724 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
False positive in shader float control validation Open

ShaderVal SpecChange

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5749 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Best Practices Layer tracking of used features/extensions Open

BestPractices

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5785 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
improve UNASSIGNED-CoreValidation-DrawState-InvalidImageLayout error Open

Enhancement ImageLayout

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5846 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Reporting wrong DescriptorType if Sampler/SampledImage share slot Open

Bug ShaderVal

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#5901 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
No validation warnings despite very obviously incorrect synchronization Open

Synchronization

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6061 · 7 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
False negative for VK_IMAGE_TILING_DRM_FORMAT_MODIFIER_EXT in vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2 with multiple logical devices Open

Bug

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6070 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Sync validation enhancements for NonReadable descriptor bindings Open

ShaderVal Synchronization

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6096 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Debug Printf just before VK_DEVICE_LOST Open

DebugPrintf Enhancement

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6101 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Assertion firing in SPIRV_MODULE_STATE::GetConstantValueById() Open

ShaderVal

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6293 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
No check to enforce renderArea is respected by viewport/scissor Open

Incomplete

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6439 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 could be more detailed: the sequel Open

SpecChange

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6570 · 9 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Missing Runtime Mesh Shading limits Open

Incomplete

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6656 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Generate the Unwrapping in pNext for layer_chassis_dispatch_manual Open

codegen

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6798 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Hitting assert at shader module creation validation with OpTypeRuntimeArray present Open

ShaderVal

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6968 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Object wrapping and debug utils callbacks Open

Bug

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#6972 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Add remaining VK_ANDROID_external_format_resolve VUs Open

Incomplete

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#7141 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
GPU-AV instrumentation should report the variable id used for each descriptor access Open

GPU-AV

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#7255 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Add error handling validation / fuzzing Open

Enhancement

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#7319 · 0 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
High memory usage Open

Enhancement

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#7387 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Add VUID-VkCopyAccelerationStructureToMemoryInfoKHR-dst-03561 Open

Incomplete RT

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#7481 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Fix how versions are handled in the test suite Open

CI/Tests

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-ValidationLayers#7547 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026

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