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KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive (3)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/07/13 12:27
Subsystems: audit
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Reported-by: syzbot+6d907adde6b34c3139e0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 163d, last: 13d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive (2) audit 6 8 221d 421d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/12 01:35
upstream KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive kernel 6 1 1479d 1479d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/01/10 10:36

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive

write to 0xffffffff88edf4d0 of 8 bytes by task 15109 on cpu 0:
 audit_ctl_unlock kernel/audit.c:253 [inline]
 audit_receive+0x2091/0x2200 kernel/audit.c:1617
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x5c0/0x690 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x58b/0x6b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x145/0x180 net/socket.c:742
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x31e/0x4a0 net/socket.c:2592
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x17b/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2646
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2678 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2683 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2681 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0xd4/0x160 net/socket.c:2681
 x64_sys_call+0x17ba/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xd8/0x2a0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffffffff88edf4d0 of 8 bytes by task 15117 on cpu 1:
 audit_ctl_owner_current kernel/audit.c:266 [inline]
 audit_log_start+0x106/0x720 kernel/audit.c:1923
 audit_seccomp+0x48/0x100 kernel/auditsc.c:2971
 seccomp_log kernel/seccomp.c:1048 [inline]
 __seccomp_filter+0x843/0x1260 kernel/seccomp.c:1344
 __secure_computing+0x82/0x150 kernel/seccomp.c:1404
 syscall_trace_enter+0xcf/0x1e0 kernel/entry/syscall-common.c:44
 syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:78 [inline]
 syscall_enter_from_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:109 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xb2/0x2a0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0xffff88814397b180 -> 0x0000000000000000

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 15117 Comm: syz.4.15019 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 (16):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/11 11:46 upstream d358e5254674 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/12/03 05:02 upstream d61f1cc5db79 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/11/27 02:39 upstream 4941a17751c9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/11/14 03:10 upstream 2ccec5944606 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/10/29 05:52 upstream 8eefed8f65cc fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/10/18 10:21 upstream cf1ea8854e4f 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/10/02 10:34 upstream 080ffb4bec4d 267f56c6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/09/30 00:10 upstream e5f0a698b34e 86341da6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/09/13 13:08 upstream 320475fbd590 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/09/04 00:34 upstream ec299e4dc21e 96a211bc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/08/25 06:05 upstream 69fd6b99b8f8 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/08/11 20:04 upstream 8f5ae30d69d7 c06e8995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/08/08 23:22 upstream 37816488247d 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/07/18 13:31 upstream 6832a9317eee 88248e14 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/07/15 14:59 upstream 155a3c003e55 03fcfc4b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
2025/07/13 12:26 upstream 3f31a806a62e 3cda49cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.