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KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/12/05 08:27
Subsystems: ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+a5ba3c3cc12b79566903@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 44d, last: 6d20h

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes

write to 0xffffc9000456fde8 of 8 bytes by task 9136 on cpu 1:
 wb_wait_for_completion_cb fs/fs-writeback.c:203 [inline]
 wb_wait_for_completion+0x1b9/0x360 fs/fs-writeback.c:226
 sync_inodes_sb+0x120/0x460 fs/fs-writeback.c:2894
 sync_inodes_one_sb+0x3d/0x50 fs/sync.c:77
 __iterate_supers+0x110/0x220 fs/super.c:924
 iterate_supers+0x1f/0x30 fs/super.c:939
 ksys_sync+0x5c/0xe0 fs/sync.c:102
 __ia32_sys_sync+0xe/0x20 fs/sync.c:113
 x64_sys_call+0x29b2/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:163
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xca/0x2b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffffc9000456fde8 of 8 bytes by task 2691 on cpu 0:
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x4ce/0xb20 fs/fs-writeback.c:2033
 wb_writeback+0x252/0x5c0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2216
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2363 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0x194/0x910 fs/fs-writeback.c:2403
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4ce/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
 worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x489/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x149/0x290 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

value changed: 0x00000000ffffc881 -> 0x00000000ffffc882

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2691 Comm: kworker/u8:13 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-8:0)
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Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/12 11:24 upstream 9c7ef209cd0f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2026/01/03 07:46 upstream 9b0436804460 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2026/01/01 14:13 upstream b69053dd3ffb d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2025/12/30 15:08 upstream 8640b74557fc d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2025/12/28 14:07 upstream d26143bb38e2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2025/12/20 22:12 upstream d8ba32c5a460 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2025/12/20 04:44 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2025/12/19 08:59 upstream 516471569089 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2025/12/11 02:30 upstream 0048fbb4011e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2025/12/08 14:06 upstream ba65a4e7120a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
2025/12/05 08:26 upstream 2061f18ad76e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in wb_wait_for_completion / writeback_sb_inodes
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.