KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / _copy_to_iter (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/29 21:34
Subsystems: mm
Labels: race:harmful prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+3058ff8dcc2e370c7572@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 58d, last: 21d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
030ca497-d507-4949-8b51-0bdbf565ad5c assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / _copy_to_iter (2) 2026/05/29 21:26 2026/05/29 21:26 2026/05/29 22:07 6b4a844333e83556da95d61d7f207e7ef5cd4bc6

			
		
2e876699-4f92-4a9a-883f-2d20fe10c85f assessment-kcsan Benign: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / _copy_to_iter (2) 2026/05/29 20:53 2026/05/29 20:53 2026/05/29 21:33 6b4a844333e83556da95d61d7f207e7ef5cd4bc6

			
		
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[syzbot] [mm?] KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / _copy_to_iter (2) 0 (1) 2026/05/29 21:34
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / _copy_to_iter mm 6 7 198d 306d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/03 09:15

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

write to 0xffff888140589000 of 4096 bytes by task 4409 on cpu 1:
 memcpy_to_iter lib/iov_iter.c:77 [inline]
 iterate_bvec include/linux/iov_iter.h:123 [inline]
 iterate_and_advance2 include/linux/iov_iter.h:306 [inline]
 iterate_and_advance include/linux/iov_iter.h:330 [inline]
 _copy_to_iter+0x605/0xea0 lib/iov_iter.c:197
 copy_page_to_iter+0x174/0x210 lib/iov_iter.c:374
 copy_folio_to_iter include/linux/uio.h:204 [inline]
 shmem_file_read_iter+0x29c/0x4b0 mm/shmem.c:3362
 lo_rw_aio+0x6a9/0x760 drivers/block/loop.c:-1
 do_req_filebacked drivers/block/loop.c:-1 [inline]
 loop_handle_cmd drivers/block/loop.c:1921 [inline]
 loop_process_work+0x567/0xac0 drivers/block/loop.c:1956
 loop_workfn+0x31/0x40 drivers/block/loop.c:1980
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4d4/0x9a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0x569/0x750 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x221/0x270 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x146/0x330 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffff888140589000 of 512 bytes by task 3289 on cpu 0:
 instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:130 [inline]
 copy_to_user_iter lib/iov_iter.c:24 [inline]
 iterate_ubuf include/linux/iov_iter.h:30 [inline]
 iterate_and_advance2 include/linux/iov_iter.h:302 [inline]
 iterate_and_advance include/linux/iov_iter.h:330 [inline]
 _copy_to_iter+0x130/0xea0 lib/iov_iter.c:197
 copy_page_to_iter+0x174/0x210 lib/iov_iter.c:374
 copy_folio_to_iter include/linux/uio.h:204 [inline]
 filemap_read+0x3ed/0xa20 mm/filemap.c:2865
 blkdev_read_iter+0x21e/0x2d0 block/fops.c:830
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:493 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x699/0x7c0 fs/read_write.c:574
 ksys_read+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:716
 __do_sys_read fs/read_write.c:725 [inline]
 __se_sys_read fs/read_write.c:723 [inline]
 __x64_sys_read+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:723
 x64_sys_call+0x2886/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:1
 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

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3289 Comm: udevd 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 (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/02 19:49 upstream 4a50a141f05a 2b70b115 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / _copy_to_iter
2026/05/27 00:32 upstream d60ec36cab33 2b01f00e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / _copy_to_iter
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.