KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat16_ent_put (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/10/15 16:49
Subsystems: exfat
Labels: race:benign prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+65c35fdc0b13ed286a96@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d10h, last: 20h17m
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
829e5252 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat16_ent_put (2) 2026/10/17 01:02 2026/10/17 01:02 2026/10/17 01:27 432c0077
5939b77e assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ ❓ KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat16_ent_put (2) 2026/10/15 16:49 2026/10/15 16:49 2026/10/15 17:34 3f2522c6
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat16_ent_put prio:low exfat 6 126 52d 500d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/10/15 05:40

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat16_ent_put

write to 0xffff888145910942 of 2 bytes by task 1463 on cpu 0:
 fat16_ent_put+0x28/0x60 fs/fat/fatent.c:185
 fat_ent_write+0x6c/0xe0 fs/fat/fatent.c:422
 fat_chain_add+0x170/0x4c0 fs/fat/misc.c:138
 fat_add_cluster fs/fat/inode.c:113 [inline]
 __fat_get_block fs/fat/inode.c:155 [inline]
 fat_get_block+0x468/0x5e0 fs/fat/inode.c:190
 __block_write_begin_int+0x400/0xf90 fs/buffer.c:2030
 block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2144 [inline]
 cont_write_begin+0x5bf/0x920 fs/buffer.c:2506
 fat_write_begin+0x52/0xe0 fs/fat/inode.c:230
 generic_perform_write+0x186/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4374
 __generic_file_write_iter+0x9e/0x120 mm/filemap.c:4491
 generic_file_write_iter+0x77/0x1f0 mm/filemap.c:4517
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x57f/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:739
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:750 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:747 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:747
 x64_sys_call+0x154e/0x2550 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x112/0x360 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff888145910800 of 512 bytes by task 3476 on cpu 1:
 memcpy_from_iter lib/iov_iter.c:85 [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_from_iter lib/iov_iter.c:261 [inline]
 copy_folio_from_iter_atomic+0x728/0x10a0 lib/iov_iter.c:491
 generic_perform_write+0x2c4/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4392
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xc5/0xf0 mm/shmem.c:3443
 lo_rw_aio+0x6ab/0x760 drivers/block/loop.c:-1
 do_req_filebacked drivers/block/loop.c:-1 [inline]
 loop_handle_cmd drivers/block/loop.c:1949 [inline]
 loop_process_work+0x569/0xad0 drivers/block/loop.c:1984
 loop_workfn+0x31/0x40 drivers/block/loop.c:2008
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x56a/0xa50 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
 worker_thread+0x569/0x750 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x223/0x270 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

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3476 Comm: kworker/u8:8 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/07/2026
Workqueue: loop1 loop_workfn
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/17 07:19 upstream 70dd4ee72eb2 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat16_ent_put
2026/10/16 15:38 upstream 2f2f7eeef8b0 4c840a2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat16_ent_put
2026/10/15 16:48 upstream 9aa622dbaab8 8fb0ae89 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat16_ent_put
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.