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KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/12/06 09:41
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+ba926145db9e197dd0bf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 53d, last: 6h33m

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat

write to 0xffff8881115126c0 of 4 bytes by task 4589 on cpu 0:
 d_make_discardable+0x4f/0xa0 fs/dcache.c:936
 simple_unlink+0x68/0x80 fs/libfs.c:807
 shmem_unlink+0x12d/0x140 mm/shmem.c:3991
 vfs_unlink+0x28b/0x440 fs/namei.c:5378
 do_unlinkat+0x1e2/0x4b0 fs/namei.c:5448
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5483 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5481 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x2e/0x40 fs/namei.c:5481
 x64_sys_call+0x2f48/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:88
 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 0xffff8881115126c0 of 4 bytes by task 3002 on cpu 1:
 __d_entry_type include/linux/dcache.h:416 [inline]
 d_is_symlink include/linux/dcache.h:446 [inline]
 do_readlinkat+0xa9/0x340 fs/stat.c:585
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:613 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:610 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x47/0x60 fs/stat.c:610
 x64_sys_call+0x2af1/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:90
 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

value changed: 0x08300080 -> 0x00300180

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3002 Comm: udevd Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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Crashes (28):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/28 10:44 upstream 1f97d9dcf536 004c195c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/27 22:50 upstream 1f97d9dcf536 3029c699 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/27 10:41 upstream fcb70a56f4d8 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/25 22:16 upstream 023777797472 55756628 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/25 00:37 upstream 5dbeeb268b63 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/24 11:09 upstream 62085877ae65 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/22 06:40 upstream a66191c590b3 a16aed1d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/21 07:30 upstream 6c790212c588 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/20 19:34 upstream c03e9c42ae8f 06648d9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/17 13:12 upstream d3eeb99bbc99 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/10 08:49 upstream b6151c4e60e5 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/09 19:23 upstream 372800cb95a3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/04 16:31 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/04 16:31 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/03 08:07 upstream 805f9a061372 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2026/01/01 12:36 upstream b69053dd3ffb d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/31 07:00 upstream c8ebd433459b d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/29 09:28 upstream 7839932417dd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/27 23:34 upstream d26143bb38e2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/24 21:10 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/23 02:32 upstream b927546677c8 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/18 21:39 upstream 516471569089 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/14 08:24 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/13 18:34 upstream 9d9c1cfec01c d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/11 10:30 upstream d358e5254674 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/10 22:04 upstream 0048fbb4011e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/07 12:51 upstream 37bb2e7217b0 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
2025/12/06 09:40 upstream 416f99c3b16f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / do_readlinkat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.