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KCSAN: data-race in __fat_write_inode / _copy_to_iter (3)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/03/20 04:55
Subsystems: exfat
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Reported-by: syzbot+95435c683e0555b0567b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d13h, last: 4d13h
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d1bf20e2-934f-4ebb-b08c-762ef95203f1 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅  Confident: ✅  KCSAN: data-race in __fat_write_inode / _copy_to_iter (3) 2026/03/20 04:55 2026/03/20 04:55 2026/03/20 05:14 f84caa2f84dea47b51a188e8d6267f295e89bbcb
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __fat_write_inode / _copy_to_iter (2) exfat 6 1 378d 378d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/05 22:53
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __fat_write_inode / _copy_to_iter exfat 6 3 1289d 1327d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/17 10:28

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __fat_write_inode / _copy_to_iter

write to 0xffff888109eadc1c of 4 bytes by task 19918 on cpu 0:
 __fat_write_inode+0x236/0x530 fs/fat/inode.c:-1
 fat_write_inode+0xbf/0xd0 fs/fat/inode.c:925
 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1582 [inline]
 __writeback_single_inode+0x38e/0x860 fs/fs-writeback.c:1813
 writeback_single_inode+0x16d/0x3f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1869
 sync_inode_metadata+0x6e/0xa0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2974
 writeback_inode fs/fat/inode.c:1875 [inline]
 fat_flush_inodes+0x77/0x150 fs/fat/inode.c:1895
 fat_truncate_blocks+0x528/0x5a0 fs/fat/file.c:396
 fat_write_failed fs/fat/inode.c:219 [inline]
 fat_write_end+0xba/0x160 fs/fat/inode.c:247
 generic_perform_write+0x311/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4340
 __generic_file_write_iter+0x9e/0x120 mm/filemap.c:4436
 generic_file_write_iter+0x8d/0x310 mm/filemap.c:4462
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x5a6/0x9f0 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:740
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:751 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:748 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:748
 x64_sys_call+0x27e1/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x370 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff888109eadc00 of 512 bytes by task 17614 on cpu 1:
 instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:130 [inline]
 copy_to_user_iter lib/iov_iter.c:24 [inline]
 iterate_ubuf include/linux/iov_iter.h:30 [inline]
 iterate_and_advance2 include/linux/iov_iter.h:302 [inline]
 iterate_and_advance include/linux/iov_iter.h:330 [inline]
 _copy_to_iter+0x130/0xea0 lib/iov_iter.c:197
 copy_page_to_iter+0x18f/0x2d0 lib/iov_iter.c:374
 copy_folio_to_iter include/linux/uio.h:204 [inline]
 filemap_read+0x407/0xa10 mm/filemap.c:2856
 blkdev_read_iter+0x22d/0x2e0 block/fops.c:855
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:493 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x6c0/0x7f0 fs/read_write.c:574
 ksys_read+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:717
 __do_sys_read fs/read_write.c:726 [inline]
 __se_sys_read fs/read_write.c:724 [inline]
 __x64_sys_read+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:724
 x64_sys_call+0x2886/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:1
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x370 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 17614 Comm: udevd Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/20 04:55 upstream 8a30aeb0d1b4 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __fat_write_inode / _copy_to_iter
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.