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KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath (9)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/01/10 03:25
Subsystems: cgroups mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+346193c9e07ec5006acd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d01h, last: 5d01h
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath (5) mm fs 6 1 566d 566d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/02 02:51
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath (8) cgroups mm 6 1 119d 119d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/12 04:56
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath (3) mm fs 6 1 1285d 1285d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/13 15:03
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath (4) mm fs 6 128 625d 769d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/03 11:30
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath (2) fs mm 6 1 1363d 1363d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/27 17:05
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath mm cgroups 6 1 2194d 2194d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/03/22 09:49
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath (6) fs mm 6 6 347d 484d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/29 19:42
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath (7) mm 6 4 215d 288d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/08 23:02

Sample crash report:
ext4 filesystem being mounted at /100/file1 supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff)
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath

write to 0xffff88811b370568 of 8 bytes by task 15762 on cpu 0:
 mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath+0x321/0x440 mm/memcontrol.c:3504
 mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty include/linux/memcontrol.h:1540 [inline]
 folio_account_dirtied mm/page-writeback.c:2664 [inline]
 __folio_mark_dirty+0x3c2/0x4a0 mm/page-writeback.c:2711
 mark_buffer_dirty+0x11e/0x210 fs/buffer.c:1206
 block_commit_write fs/buffer.c:2218 [inline]
 block_page_mkwrite+0x287/0x3d0 fs/buffer.c:2643
 ext4_page_mkwrite+0x859/0xb90 fs/ext4/inode.c:6689
 do_page_mkwrite mm/memory.c:3528 [inline]
 do_shared_fault mm/memory.c:5831 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:5893 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4401 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6273 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:6411 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1601/0x2c60 mm/memory.c:6580
 do_user_addr_fault+0x630/0x1080 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1336
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1476 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x62/0xa0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1532
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618

read to 0xffff88811b370568 of 8 bytes by task 15766 on cpu 1:
 mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath+0xd5/0x440 mm/memcontrol.c:3484
 mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty include/linux/memcontrol.h:1540 [inline]
 folio_account_dirtied mm/page-writeback.c:2664 [inline]
 __folio_mark_dirty+0x3c2/0x4a0 mm/page-writeback.c:2711
 mark_buffer_dirty+0x11e/0x210 fs/buffer.c:1206
 folio_zero_new_buffers+0x28c/0x2e0 fs/buffer.c:2032
 block_write_end+0x200/0x210 fs/buffer.c:2289
 ext4_da_do_write_end fs/ext4/inode.c:3218 [inline]
 ext4_da_write_end+0x1d3/0x800 fs/ext4/inode.c:3292
 generic_perform_write+0x312/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4335
 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x1ee/0x3c0 fs/ext4/file.c:299
 ext4_file_write_iter+0x387/0xf60 fs/ext4/file.c:-1
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x52a/0x960 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0xda/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:738
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:746 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:746
 x64_sys_call+0x2847/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xca/0x2b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x0000000100010166 -> 0x00000001000101ce

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 15766 Comm: syz.0.14954 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/10 03:24 upstream 372800cb95a3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath / mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.