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KCSAN: data-race in __wb_writeout_add / __wb_writeout_add

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/10/04 03:08
Subsystems: mm fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+2c49944cbd57016ba157@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 19h13m, last: 19h13m

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __wb_writeout_add / __wb_writeout_add

write to 0xffffffff88e67330 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 wb_domain_writeout_add mm/page-writeback.c:572 [inline]
 __wb_writeout_add+0x148/0x1b0 mm/page-writeback.c:586
 __folio_end_writeback+0x1a0/0x410 mm/page-writeback.c:3004
 folio_end_writeback+0x71/0x3d0 mm/filemap.c:1673
 ext4_finish_bio+0x459/0x8c0 fs/ext4/page-io.c:144
 ext4_end_bio+0x298/0x3b0 fs/ext4/page-io.c:-1
 bio_endio+0x37e/0x420 block/bio.c:1673
 blk_update_request+0x336/0x730 block/blk-mq.c:998
 blk_mq_end_request+0x26/0x50 block/blk-mq.c:1160
 lo_complete_rq+0x98/0x140 drivers/block/loop.c:314
 blk_complete_reqs block/blk-mq.c:1235 [inline]
 blk_done_softirq+0x77/0xb0 block/blk-mq.c:1240
 handle_softirqs+0xb7/0x290 kernel/softirq.c:622
 run_ksoftirqd+0x1c/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:1063
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x32b/0x530 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x486/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x11f/0x1b0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffffffff88e67330 of 8 bytes by task 3298 on cpu 1:
 wb_domain_writeout_add mm/page-writeback.c:565 [inline]
 __wb_writeout_add+0x81/0x1b0 mm/page-writeback.c:586
 __folio_end_writeback+0x1a0/0x410 mm/page-writeback.c:3004
 folio_end_writeback+0x71/0x3d0 mm/filemap.c:1673
 __block_write_full_folio+0x5f3/0x8f0 fs/buffer.c:1949
 block_write_full_folio+0x2c2/0x2e0 fs/buffer.c:-1
 blkdev_writepages+0x88/0x100 block/fops.c:484
 do_writepages+0x1c6/0x310 mm/page-writeback.c:2604
 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc mm/filemap.c:389 [inline]
 __filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:422 [inline]
 __filemap_fdatawrite mm/filemap.c:428 [inline]
 filemap_flush+0xe4/0x120 mm/filemap.c:473
 sync_blockdev_nowait+0x29/0x40 block/bdev.c:248
 sync_filesystem+0xe2/0x190 fs/sync.c:60
 generic_shutdown_super+0x44/0x210 fs/super.c:621
 kill_block_super+0x2a/0x70 fs/super.c:1722
 ext4_kill_sb+0x42/0x80 fs/ext4/super.c:7401
 deactivate_locked_super+0x72/0x1c0 fs/super.c:473
 deactivate_super+0x97/0xa0 fs/super.c:506
 cleanup_mnt+0x269/0x2e0 fs/namespace.c:1327
 __cleanup_mnt+0x19/0x20 fs/namespace.c:1334
 task_work_run+0x12e/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:227
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xed/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:43
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x1d6/0x200 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x0000000000000000 -> 0x00000000ffff9b77

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3298 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
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EXT4-fs (loop4): unmounting filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/04 03:07 upstream 9b0d551bcc05 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __wb_writeout_add / __wb_writeout_add
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.