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KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat32_ent_put

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/01/20 10:05
Subsystems: exfat
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Reported-by: syzbot+857e9eeb6ffeaf08b78c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d19h, last: 2d19h

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat32_ent_put

read-write to 0xffff888121b631f0 of 4 bytes by task 7345 on cpu 1:
 fat32_ent_put+0x4e/0x90 fs/fat/fatent.c:191
 fat_alloc_clusters+0x57b/0xc50 fs/fat/fatent.c:503
 fat_add_cluster fs/fat/inode.c:108 [inline]
 __fat_get_block fs/fat/inode.c:155 [inline]
 fat_get_block+0x258/0x5e0 fs/fat/inode.c:190
 __block_write_begin_int+0x400/0xf90 fs/buffer.c:2145
 block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2256 [inline]
 cont_write_begin+0x5fe/0x970 fs/buffer.c:2594
 fat_write_begin+0x4f/0xe0 fs/fat/inode.c:230
 generic_perform_write+0x183/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4314
 __generic_file_write_iter+0x9e/0x120 mm/filemap.c:4431
 generic_file_write_iter+0x8d/0x310 mm/filemap.c:4457
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x5a6/0x9f0 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:738
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:746 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:746
 x64_sys_call+0x2847/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xc0/0x2a0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff888121b63000 of 512 bytes by task 57 on cpu 0:
 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+0x75f/0x1170 lib/iov_iter.c:491
 generic_perform_write+0x2c1/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4332
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xc5/0xf0 mm/shmem.c:3490
 lo_rw_aio+0x67d/0x730 drivers/block/loop.c:-1
 do_req_filebacked drivers/block/loop.c:-1 [inline]
 loop_handle_cmd drivers/block/loop.c:1947 [inline]
 loop_process_work+0x56c/0xac0 drivers/block/loop.c:1982
 loop_workfn+0x31/0x40 drivers/block/loop.c:2006
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4cd/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
 worker_thread+0x581/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x488/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x148/0x280 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 57 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: loop8 loop_workfn
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/20 10:04 upstream 24d479d26b25 06648d9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_folio_from_iter_atomic / fat32_ent_put
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.