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KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/06/15 07:26
Subsystems: fs
Labels: race:benign prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+1cfd29c242c7cd26da02@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d06h, last: 14h32m
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
f4948fbf-337c-4dab-a3aa-6a2b6345c098 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput 2026/06/17 00:04 2026/06/17 00:04 2026/06/17 00:52 0e4b3e40a4572a10f991eaf3b70977db43e1fa9b

			
		
f6fc981a-7b9d-4261-a41c-11ca830ae798 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput 2026/06/15 07:26 2026/06/15 07:26 2026/06/15 07:51 4f06757f683a802254a4c8edbfe67ff801904c5e

			
		

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput

write to 0xffff88811b1750d0 of 8 bytes by task 29455 on cpu 1:
 __d_drop fs/dcache.c:578 [inline]
 dentry_kill+0x139/0x500 fs/dcache.c:824
 finish_dput+0x16/0x1d0 fs/dcache.c:1001
 dput+0x48/0x50 fs/dcache.c:1042
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:4520 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4608 [inline]
 path_openat+0xd29/0x2000 fs/namei.c:4856
 do_file_open+0x16c/0x290 fs/namei.c:4888
 do_sys_openat2+0xa0/0x130 fs/open.c:1395
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1401 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1417 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1412 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0xf2/0x120 fs/open.c:1412
 x64_sys_call+0x1e39/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:258
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x136/0x3c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff88811b1750d0 of 8 bytes by task 29456 on cpu 0:
 hlist_bl_unhashed include/linux/list_bl.h:54 [inline]
 d_unhashed include/linux/dcache.h:396 [inline]
 retain_dentry fs/dcache.c:872 [inline]
 fast_dput+0x64/0x2e0 fs/dcache.c:971
 dput+0x1f/0x50 fs/dcache.c:1040
 end_dirop fs/namei.c:2956 [inline]
 end_creating include/linux/namei.h:117 [inline]
 vfs_mkdir+0xb4/0x3e0 fs/namei.c:5284
 filename_mkdirat+0x138/0x300 fs/namei.c:5305
 __do_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:5332 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdir+0x31/0xf0 fs/namei.c:5329
 __x64_sys_mkdir+0x31/0x40 fs/namei.c:5329
 x64_sys_call+0x2eab/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:84
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x136/0x3c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0xffff8882376f51a0 -> 0x0000000000000000

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 29456 Comm: syz.7.7927 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
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Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/18 23:50 upstream 83f1454877cc a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput
2026/06/18 23:49 upstream 83f1454877cc a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput
2026/06/18 13:40 upstream e771677c937d a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput
2026/06/17 16:29 upstream 66affa37cfac b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput
2026/06/17 10:14 upstream 6b5a2b7d9bc1 62cc6db3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput
2026/06/16 09:59 upstream a87bbc4578fd 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput
2026/06/16 01:38 upstream 0e0611827f33 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput
2026/06/15 07:26 upstream 95e56f0f293e 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in dentry_kill / fast_dput
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.