KCSAN: data-race in iter_file_splice_write / set_task_ioprio (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/08/28 18:07
Subsystems: block
Labels: race:benign
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Reported-by: syzbot+7461935644fd2e489ea4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 9h41m, last: 9h41m
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e996c108 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in iter_file_splice_write / set_task_ioprio (2) 2026/08/28 18:07 2026/08/28 18:07 2026/08/28 18:37 bcbc8ceb
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in iter_file_splice_write / set_task_ioprio block 6 1 269d 269d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/28 00:42

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in iter_file_splice_write / set_task_ioprio

write to 0xffff8881412e9a90 of 8 bytes by task 13366 on cpu 1:
 set_task_ioprio+0x24e/0x270 block/blk-ioc.c:280
 __do_sys_ioprio_set block/ioprio.c:121 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioprio_set+0x24f/0x5c0 block/ioprio.c:65
 __x64_sys_ioprio_set+0x43/0x50 block/ioprio.c:65
 x64_sys_call+0x1d57/0x2550 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:252
 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 0xffff8881412e9a90 of 8 bytes by task 13357 on cpu 0:
 __get_task_ioprio include/linux/ioprio.h:59 [inline]
 get_current_ioprio include/linux/ioprio.h:84 [inline]
 init_sync_kiocb include/linux/fs.h:2188 [inline]
 iter_file_splice_write+0x436/0xa60 fs/splice.c:734
 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:936 [inline]
 direct_splice_actor+0x158/0x280 fs/splice.c:1159
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x2f9/0x680 fs/splice.c:1103
 do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1202 [inline]
 do_splice_direct+0x119/0x1a0 fs/splice.c:1228
 do_sendfile+0x37d/0x640 fs/read_write.c:1371
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1432 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1418 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendfile64+0x105/0x150 fs/read_write.c:1418
 x64_sys_call+0x1015/0x2550 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:41
 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

value changed: 0x0000000000000000 -> 0xffff88810a0aa3e0

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 13357 Comm: syz.8.1772 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/28 18:07 upstream 1b78070aaef6 e2fa417d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in iter_file_splice_write / set_task_ioprio
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.