KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic (4)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/06/19 06:18
Subsystems: mm
Labels: race:benign prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+c1f41ee8f2d54c6194eb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 49d, last: 10d
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
2928a602 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic (4) 2026/06/21 00:42 2026/06/21 00:42 2026/06/21 00:55 43bfcdb0
f5d9d488 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic (4) 2026/06/19 06:18 2026/06/19 06:18 2026/06/19 06:42 d7ffd47b
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic (3) mm 6 2 158d 203d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/27 02:12
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic (2) mm 6 5 273d 292d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/02 09:15
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic mm 6 2 369d 422d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/28 04:36

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

write to 0xffff8881029211ff of 2 bytes by task 4903 on cpu 0:
 instrument_copy_from_user_before include/linux/instrumented.h:147 [inline]
 copy_from_user_iter lib/iov_iter.c:66 [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_from_iter lib/iov_iter.c:261 [inline]
 copy_folio_from_iter_atomic+0x282/0x10a0 lib/iov_iter.c:491
 iomap_write_iter fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1241 [inline]
 iomap_file_buffered_write+0x41e/0x940 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1309
 blkdev_buffered_write block/fops.c:710 [inline]
 blkdev_write_iter+0x391/0x490 block/fops.c:776
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x57d/0x990 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:794 [inline]
 __do_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:802 [inline]
 __se_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:799 [inline]
 __x64_sys_pwrite64+0xfd/0x150 fs/read_write.c:799
 x64_sys_call+0xa2a/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:19
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x136/0x3c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff888102921000 of 512 bytes by task 3290 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+0x174/0x210 lib/iov_iter.c:374
 copy_folio_to_iter include/linux/uio.h:204 [inline]
 filemap_read+0x3ed/0xa20 mm/filemap.c:2865
 blkdev_read_iter+0x21e/0x2d0 block/fops.c:830
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:493 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x699/0x7c0 fs/read_write.c:574
 ksys_read+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:716
 __do_sys_read fs/read_write.c:725 [inline]
 __se_sys_read fs/read_write.c:723 [inline]
 __x64_sys_read+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:723
 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+0x136/0x3c0 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: 3290 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/28 18:28 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab edc8a875 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic
2026/06/22 01:33 upstream 8cd8cf7a07e5 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic
2026/06/19 06:18 upstream 83f1454877cc a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / copy_folio_from_iter_atomic
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.