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KCSAN: data-race in inode_update_time / inode_update_time

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/04/03 13:50
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+ca31f410b18d1d1ddbbe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d01h, last: 2d01h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
8deb2e16-ab86-4c1a-9b58-3b1ba8e4653a assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅  Confident: ✅  KCSAN: data-race in inode_update_time / inode_update_time 2026/04/03 13:49 2026/04/03 13:49 2026/04/03 14:14 4440e7c2e964875f9e35dba6deda12c2195f19d3

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in inode_update_time / inode_update_time

write to 0xffff888100446a14 of 4 bytes by task 6641 on cpu 1:
 inode_set_mtime_to_ts include/linux/fs.h:1659 [inline]
 inode_update_cmtime fs/inode.c:2139 [inline]
 inode_update_time+0x2cc/0x360 fs/inode.c:2164
 generic_update_time fs/inode.c:2195 [inline]
 file_update_time_flags+0x277/0x2e0 fs/inode.c:2428
 file_update_time+0x17/0x20 fs/inode.c:2449
 fault_dirty_shared_page+0xd9/0x380 mm/memory.c:3631
 do_shared_fault mm/memory.c:5891 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:5937 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4477 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6317 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:6455 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x19a1/0x3020 mm/memory.c:6624
 do_user_addr_fault+0x3fd/0x1050 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1385
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1474 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x62/0xa0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1527
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618

read to 0xffff888100446a14 of 4 bytes by task 6642 on cpu 0:
 inode_get_mtime_nsec include/linux/fs.h:1645 [inline]
 inode_get_mtime include/linux/fs.h:1651 [inline]
 inode_update_cmtime fs/inode.c:2111 [inline]
 inode_update_time+0xe3/0x360 fs/inode.c:2164
 generic_update_time fs/inode.c:2195 [inline]
 file_update_time_flags+0x277/0x2e0 fs/inode.c:2428
 file_update_time+0x17/0x20 fs/inode.c:2449
 fault_dirty_shared_page+0xd9/0x380 mm/memory.c:3631
 do_shared_fault mm/memory.c:5891 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:5937 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4477 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6317 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:6455 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x19a1/0x3020 mm/memory.c:6624
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:1126 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x1023/0x1ea0 mm/gup.c:1428
 __get_user_pages_locked mm/gup.c:1752 [inline]
 __gup_longterm_locked+0x4c7/0xe30 mm/gup.c:2481
 gup_fast_fallback+0x1f3/0x13c0 mm/gup.c:3209
 pin_user_pages_fast+0x5f/0x90 mm/gup.c:3315
 io_pin_pages+0xba/0x170 io_uring/memmap.c:63
 io_sqe_buffer_register+0x1fd/0x1210 io_uring/rsrc.c:792
 io_sqe_buffers_register+0x24e/0x4e0 io_uring/rsrc.c:904
 __io_uring_register io_uring/register.c:739 [inline]
 __do_sys_io_uring_register io_uring/register.c:1035 [inline]
 __se_sys_io_uring_register+0xdd6/0x12d0 io_uring/register.c:1012
 __x64_sys_io_uring_register+0x55/0x70 io_uring/register.c:1012
 x64_sys_call+0x2be0/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:428
 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

value changed: 0x2ad36db1 -> 0x2eff8b45

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6642 Comm: syz.4.739 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
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
2026/04/03 13:49 upstream d8a9a4b11a13 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in inode_update_time / inode_update_time
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.