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KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string (6)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/05/31 09:05
Subsystems: ext4
Labels: race:benign prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+8a796968f6ec05e16d7a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d00h, last: 4d00h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
7ef57387-0289-4931-9f41-b54fe6ef3fd1 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ✅ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string (6) 2026/06/02 22:22 2026/06/02 22:22 2026/06/02 23:00 62fe15281f5011cd203d8845b8767b10e7443aa5
f86db4f2-826d-4562-8546-f810f685a8e6 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string (6) 2026/05/31 09:05 2026/05/31 09:05 2026/05/31 09:32 6b4a844333e83556da95d61d7f207e7ef5cd4bc6
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string (3) ext4 6 1 776d 776d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/24 03:21
upstream KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string (4) ext4 6 1 570d 570d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/05 15:54
upstream KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string ext4 6 4 985d 1063d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/28 05:07
upstream KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string (5) ext4 6 2 133d 153d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/18 10:12
upstream KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string (2) ext4 6 1 914d 909d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/09 18:19

Sample crash report:
loop4: lost filesystem error report for type 5 error -117
EXT4-fs (loop4): 1 truncate cleaned up
EXT4-fs (loop4): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 r/w without journal. Quota mode: writeback.
ext4 filesystem being mounted at /426/file0 supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff)
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string

write to 0xffffffff8936fab0 of 1 bytes by task 3302 on cpu 0:
 string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:659 [inline]
 uuid_string+0x3c4/0x440 lib/vsprintf.c:1772
 pointer+0x3b5/0xcb0 lib/vsprintf.c:2567
 vsnprintf+0x491/0x860 lib/vsprintf.c:2952
 va_format lib/vsprintf.c:1723 [inline]
 pointer+0x821/0xcb0 lib/vsprintf.c:2569
 vsnprintf+0x491/0x860 lib/vsprintf.c:2952
 vscnprintf+0x41/0x90 lib/vsprintf.c:3013
 printk_sprint+0x30/0x2b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2222
 vprintk_store+0x57b/0x910 kernel/printk/printk.c:2364
 vprintk_emit+0x1a4/0x600 kernel/printk/printk.c:2455
 vprintk_default+0x26/0x30 kernel/printk/printk.c:2494
 vprintk+0x1d/0x30 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:82
 _printk+0x79/0xa0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504
 __ext4_msg+0x1aa/0x1c0 fs/ext4/super.c:1001
 ext4_put_super+0x90/0x7b0 fs/ext4/super.c:1302
 generic_shutdown_super+0xee/0x220 fs/super.c:646
 kill_block_super+0x2a/0x70 fs/super.c:1725
 ext4_kill_sb+0x42/0x80 fs/ext4/super.c:7492
 deactivate_locked_super+0x75/0x1c0 fs/super.c:476
 deactivate_super+0x97/0xa0 fs/super.c:509
 cleanup_mnt+0x2bb/0x330 fs/namespace.c:1312
 __cleanup_mnt+0x19/0x20 fs/namespace.c:1319
 task_work_run+0x130/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:67 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x211/0x820 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x232/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffffffff8936fab0 of 8 bytes by task 10707 on cpu 1:
 data_make_reusable kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c:608 [inline]
 data_push_tail+0x100/0x470 kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c:693
 data_alloc+0x11b/0x390 kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c:1089
 prb_reserve+0x8d6/0xad0 kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c:1727
 vprintk_store+0x54a/0x910 kernel/printk/printk.c:2354
 vprintk_emit+0x1a4/0x600 kernel/printk/printk.c:2455
 vprintk_default+0x26/0x30 kernel/printk/printk.c:2494
 vprintk+0x1d/0x30 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:82
 _printk+0x79/0xa0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504
 mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry+0x1c3/0x200 fs/namespace.c:3314
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3774 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x354/0x8d0 fs/namespace.c:3834
 path_mount+0x4d0/0xbc0 fs/namespace.c:4154
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4167 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4383 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x28c/0x2e0 fs/namespace.c:4360
 __x64_sys_mount+0x67/0x80 fs/namespace.c:4360
 x64_sys_call+0x2d61/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x3ffffffffffff859 -> 0x303030303030302d

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 10707 Comm: syz.4.2087 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/31 09:05 upstream 9d87d0fc8c8e 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in data_push_tail / uuid_string
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.