WARNING in kcov_remote_start (6)

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/11/04 21:25
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+3f51ad7ac3ae57a6fdcc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: 2eed77fdcb0c kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT
Patched on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb], missing on: [ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root]
First crash: 728d, last: 14h28m
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7c1201c5 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ WARNING in kcov_remote_start (6) 2026/05/24 13:26 2026/05/24 13:26 2026/05/24 14:13 c69befb3
▶ ▼ Discussions (14)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH v6] kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT by moving saved remote state to task_struct 5 (5) 2026/07/16 09:12
Re: [PATCH v5] kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT by moving saved remote state to task_struct 2 (2) 2026/07/10 10:43
Re: Policy regarding linux-next only changes 2 (2) 2026/07/02 14:11
[PATCH] kcov: fix potential kcov_mode corruption under CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT 5 (5) 2026/05/21 08:38
[syzbot] [wireless?] WARNING in kcov_remote_start (6) 0 (2) 2026/05/07 11:10
[PATCH (draft)] kcov: fix potential kcov_mode corruption under CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT 2 (2) 2026/05/04 15:39
[syzbot] Monthly wireless report (May 2026) 0 (1) 2026/05/02 12:32
[syzbot] Monthly wireless report (Apr 2026) 0 (1) 2026/04/01 07:42
[syzbot] Monthly wireless report (Mar 2026) 0 (1) 2026/03/01 06:22
[syzbot] Monthly wireless report (Jan 2026) 0 (1) 2026/01/28 22:39
[syzbot] Monthly usb report (Dec 2025) 0 (1) 2025/12/29 08:12
[syzbot] Monthly wireless report (Dec 2025) 0 (1) 2025/12/29 08:12
[syzbot] Monthly wireless report (Nov 2025) 0 (1) 2025/11/27 07:44
[syzbot] Monthly wireless report (Oct 2025) 0 (1) 2025/10/27 08:42
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 WARNING in kcov_remote_start (2) -1 1 245d 245d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/06 04:25
linux-5.15 WARNING in kcov_remote_start -1 4 658d 757d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/19 19:40
linux-5.15 WARNING in kcov_remote_start (3) -1 1 111d 111d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/10/18 20:40
linux-6.6 WARNING in kcov_remote_start -1 1 160d 160d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/30 01:58
upstream WARNING in kcov_remote_start (4) usb -1 107983 841d 872d 26/29 fixed on 2024/07/10 08:24
upstream WARNING in kcov_remote_start (2) usb -1 syz, C 1153 2612d 2613d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/09/04 14:27
upstream WARNING in kcov_remote_start (5) wireless -1 4243 737d 837d 28/29 fixed on 2024/10/22 14:56
upstream WARNING in kcov_remote_start (3) usb -1 265513 876d 945d 25/29 fixed on 2024/06/05 13:52
upstream WARNING in kcov_remote_start usb -1 syz, C 655 2613d 2613d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2019/09/03 16:37
linux-6.1 WARNING in kcov_remote_start -1 16 3d04h 488d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/06/28 15:34

Sample crash report:
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in_task() && kcov_mode_enabled(mode)
WARNING: kernel/kcov.c:911 at kcov_remote_start+0x55b/0x7e0 kernel/kcov.c:911, CPU#0: syz.4.2939/19586
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 19586 Comm: syz.4.2939 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/15/2026
RIP: 0010:kcov_remote_start+0x55b/0x7e0 kernel/kcov.c:911
Code: f7 c5 00 02 00 00 0f 84 86 fc ff ff fb e9 80 fc ff ff e8 98 31 39 0a 41 f7 c5 00 02 00 00 0f 85 67 fc ff ff e9 69 fc ff ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 e8 7d 4f 39 0a 89 c0 48 c7 c7 d8 92 c0 94 48 03 3c c5 d0
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000482f158 EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 8000000000000200 RBX: ffffffff81c91fcc RCX: 8000000000000201
RDX: ffff88802c7e69c0 RSI: ffffffff8e92d156 RDI: ffffffff8c8e8c80
RBP: ffffc9000482f410 R08: ffffc9000482ef38 R09: 0000000000000020
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff81a49360 R12: ffff8880b82292d8
R13: 0000000000000246 R14: ffff88802c7e5dc0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007fed153fa6c0(0000) GS:ffff888123620000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c313a0b CR3: 0000000075474000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 kcov_remote_start_common include/linux/kcov.h:48 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_list+0x973/0x4c10 net/mac80211/rx.c:5747
 ieee80211_rx_napi+0x1ad/0x3d0 net/mac80211/rx.c:5790
 ieee80211_rx include/net/mac80211.h:5491 [inline]
 ieee80211_handle_queued_frames+0xe4/0x1d0 net/mac80211/main.c:452
 ieee80211_stop_device+0x3e/0xf0 net/mac80211/util.c:1659
 ieee80211_do_stop+0x1e19/0x2450 net/mac80211/iface.c:777
 ieee80211_stop+0x1ab/0x200 net/mac80211/iface.c:871
 __dev_close_many+0x361/0x6e0 net/core/dev.c:1836
 __dev_close net/core/dev.c:1849 [inline]
 __dev_change_flags+0x3f5/0x820 net/core/dev.c:9961
 netif_change_flags+0x7c/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:10028
 dev_change_flags+0x128/0x260 net/core/dev_api.c:68
 devinet_ioctl+0x966/0x1c50 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1189
 inet_ioctl+0x42a/0x560 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1007
 sock_do_ioctl+0x101/0x320 net/socket.c:1328
 sock_ioctl+0x57a/0x7e0 net/socket.c:1449
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fed1459f559
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fed153fa028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fed14825fa0 RCX: 00007fed1459f559
RDX: 0000200000000740 RSI: 0000000000008914 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fed14636b20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fed14826038 R14: 00007fed14825fa0 R15: 00007fff616d5ae8
 </TASK>

Crashes (43263):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/29 08:28 upstream c339f4010dea b1d00f76 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/26 04:28 upstream 12392d40a3be 1d9ca40b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/24 07:55 upstream 4da9dedf3fc5 1d9ca40b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/20 08:56 upstream c03c1a14507d 72cdc28d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/19 02:06 upstream f909e534f5e3 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/17 02:55 upstream 70dd4ee72eb2 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/14 21:36 upstream 4056b3c9d3c9 8fb0ae89 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/11 18:00 upstream b88c841d1164 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/08 06:39 upstream 7b63ef2d55f2 6520ecdb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/08 03:52 upstream 602042bf29f6 6520ecdb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 21:35 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 20:29 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 19:27 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 19:21 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 18:18 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 17:13 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 16:02 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 13:31 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 12:54 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 11:53 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 11:07 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 10:01 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 09:26 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 08:15 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 06:37 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 05:25 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 04:24 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 02:36 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 02:35 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 01:32 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/23 00:25 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/22 23:08 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/22 22:23 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/22 21:18 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/22 20:07 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/22 19:06 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/22 18:44 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/22 17:14 upstream 26260251022f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/05/24 12:17 upstream 4cbfe4502e3d c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/03/10 13:57 upstream 1f318b96cc84 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/01/29 08:52 upstream 8dfce8991b95 b78a7341 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2025/08/30 22:55 upstream 11e7861d680c 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2024/11/03 07:56 upstream 3e5e6c9900c3 f00eed24 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/02/24 08:18 upstream 7dff99b35460 41d2fa6a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/26 11:51 upstream 6b4b543fa187 168cb7a2 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/10 19:55 upstream 3857c2fe5449 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/09 08:23 upstream 6c377d19d4a5 b2734a59 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/29 06:11 upstream c339f4010dea b1d00f76 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2025/12/28 12:00 upstream d26143bb38e2 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/22 21:15 net f4377bf85887 4ba27f85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/22 08:16 net abeacca61eea 4ba27f85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/17 06:09 net 00accbd9d502 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/16 14:47 net 191aa41548b2 b1757810 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/14 01:20 net 8e2fbe0e75d3 7321cd29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/04 22:40 net 6dc989ea46b9 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/28 12:18 net 1b78070aaef6 e2fa417d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/08/27 12:32 net 991c2be78257 a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/07/20 12:14 bpf 94515f3a7d42 de6a700d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/22 10:07 bpf-next b116ac608754 4ba27f85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/20 10:41 net-next 6ac0d7ba21d5 72cdc28d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/28 03:03 linux-next 151a134a4e6e 96923c60 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/20 03:55 linux-next 3d229ce89862 72cdc28d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2024/10/31 21:14 linux-next f9f24ca362a4 96eb609f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in kcov_remote_start
2026/10/12 19:24 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 01850bca59c9 745a967f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in kcov_remote_start
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.