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KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs (3)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/01 01:25
Subsystems: ext4
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+40f776a7f1b5e8cb4f6c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 113d, last: 72d
✨ AI Jobs (3)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
4edf0f64-7c2a-4a05-b990-97ac854e3bf3 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs (3) 2026/05/31 22:03 2026/05/31 22:03 2026/05/31 22:47 6b4a844333e83556da95d61d7f207e7ef5cd4bc6

			
		
82d37d86-f554-42b6-b214-f676466263b6 assessment-security 💥 KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs (3) 2026/05/15 07:12 2026/05/15 07:12 2026/05/15 07:13 6ccb967e465e832a7bfd7a116ad00d52a0923a5d
failed to run ["git" "pull" "origin" "HEAD" "--depth=1" "--allow-unrelated-histories"]: exit status 128
From /app/workdir/repo/linux
 * branch                HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating files:  ...
truncated to first 200 bytes; open job for full error
af7922ee-8483-4d3c-aa57-4bcef35f1887 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ Confident: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs (3) 2026/02/23 21:13 2026/02/23 21:13 2026/02/23 21:22 305c0ec5cd886e2d13738e28e1b2df9b0ec20fc9

			
		
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs fs mm 6 1 1238d 1238d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/05 16:41
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs (2) ext4 6 1 634d 634d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/26 07:57

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs

read-write to 0xffff888100492b08 of 8 bytes by task 2963 on cpu 0:
 __filemap_add_folio+0x671/0x8b0 mm/filemap.c:919
 filemap_add_folio+0x1d3/0x350 mm/filemap.c:966
 __filemap_get_folio_mpol+0x326/0x680 mm/filemap.c:2021
 __filemap_get_folio include/linux/pagemap.h:763 [inline]
 grow_dev_folio fs/buffer.c:1047 [inline]
 grow_buffers fs/buffer.c:1113 [inline]
 __getblk_slow fs/buffer.c:1131 [inline]
 bdev_getblk+0x173/0x3f0 fs/buffer.c:1458
 __getblk include/linux/buffer_head.h:380 [inline]
 jbd2_journal_get_descriptor_buffer+0xce/0x210 fs/jbd2/journal.c:976
 jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xcc8/0x3420 fs/jbd2/commit.c:610
 kjournald2+0x22e/0x3e0 fs/jbd2/journal.c:201
 kthread+0x22a/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x150/0x360 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffff888100492b08 of 8 bytes by task 19578 on cpu 1:
 sync_bdevs+0xd3/0x260 block/bdev.c:1285
 ksys_sync fs/sync.c:105 [inline]
 __ia32_sys_sync+0x81/0xb0 fs/sync.c:111
 x64_sys_call+0x2f3a/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:163
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x370 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x000000000000033d -> 0x000000000000033e

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 19578 Comm: syz.0.4667 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
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loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 256
FAT-fs (loop0): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
FAT-fs (loop0): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/06 01:24 upstream 1791c390149f 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs
2026/02/23 21:13 upstream 7dff99b35460 6beca497 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __filemap_add_folio / sync_bdevs
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.