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KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64 (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2024/08/30 11:59
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+ced4d9a8cadb5ef3adae@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 499d, last: 8h05m
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64 kernel 6 334 538d 765d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/19 05:50

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64

read-write to 0xffffffff86809a00 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x113/0x1c0 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:118
 tick_sched_do_timer kernel/time/tick-sched.c:253 [inline]
 tick_nohz_handler+0x8d/0x3d0 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:312
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1777 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x20f/0x5a0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1841
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x21a/0x460 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1903
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1045 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5f/0x1d0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
 native_save_fl arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:26 [inline]
 arch_local_save_flags arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:109 [inline]
 arch_local_irq_save arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:127 [inline]
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:108 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1f/0xb0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 cgroup_file_notify+0x22/0x110 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4693
 __memcg_memory_event mm/memcontrol.c:-1 [inline]
 try_charge_memcg+0x324/0xa10 mm/memcontrol.c:2384
 try_charge mm/memcontrol.c:2530 [inline]
 charge_memcg+0x51/0xc0 mm/memcontrol.c:4728
 __mem_cgroup_charge+0x28/0xb0 mm/memcontrol.c:4745
 mem_cgroup_charge include/linux/memcontrol.h:663 [inline]
 shmem_alloc_and_add_folio mm/shmem.c:1942 [inline]
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x470/0xd50 mm/shmem.c:2556
 shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2662 [inline]
 shmem_write_begin+0xfc/0x1f0 mm/shmem.c:3315
 generic_perform_write+0x184/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4314
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xc5/0xf0 mm/shmem.c:3490
 __kernel_write_iter+0x2d6/0x540 fs/read_write.c:619
 dump_emit_page fs/coredump.c:1298 [inline]
 dump_user_range+0x61e/0x8f0 fs/coredump.c:1372
 elf_core_dump+0x1de7/0x1f80 fs/binfmt_elf.c:2111
 coredump_write+0xacf/0xdf0 fs/coredump.c:1049
 do_coredump fs/coredump.c:1126 [inline]
 vfs_coredump+0x24f7/0x2e60 fs/coredump.c:1200
 get_signal+0xd84/0xf70 kernel/signal.c:3019
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x96/0x450 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:41 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:75 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:270 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:339 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0xf9/0x560 kernel/entry/common.c:196
 exc_general_protection+0x15b/0x1e0 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:913
 asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:612

read to 0xffffffff86809a00 of 8 bytes by task 19696 on cpu 1:
 mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited+0x29/0x70 mm/memcontrol.c:636
 count_shadow_nodes+0x6a/0x230 mm/workingset.c:678
 do_shrink_slab+0x63/0x680 mm/shrinker.c:384
 shrink_slab_memcg mm/shrinker.c:550 [inline]
 shrink_slab+0x4f5/0x840 mm/shrinker.c:628
 shrink_node_memcgs mm/vmscan.c:6022 [inline]
 shrink_node+0x6a9/0x2010 mm/vmscan.c:6061
 shrink_zones mm/vmscan.c:6300 [inline]
 do_try_to_free_pages+0x3f6/0xcd0 mm/vmscan.c:6362
 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0x1ab/0x410 mm/vmscan.c:6690
 try_charge_memcg+0x383/0xa10 mm/memcontrol.c:2388
 try_charge mm/memcontrol.c:2530 [inline]
 charge_memcg+0x51/0xc0 mm/memcontrol.c:4728
 __mem_cgroup_charge+0x28/0xb0 mm/memcontrol.c:4745
 mem_cgroup_charge include/linux/memcontrol.h:663 [inline]
 shmem_alloc_and_add_folio mm/shmem.c:1942 [inline]
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x470/0xd50 mm/shmem.c:2556
 shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2662 [inline]
 shmem_write_begin+0xfc/0x1f0 mm/shmem.c:3315
 generic_perform_write+0x184/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4314
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xc5/0xf0 mm/shmem.c:3490
 __kernel_write_iter+0x2d6/0x540 fs/read_write.c:619
 dump_emit_page fs/coredump.c:1298 [inline]
 dump_user_range+0x61e/0x8f0 fs/coredump.c:1372
 elf_core_dump+0x1de7/0x1f80 fs/binfmt_elf.c:2111
 coredump_write+0xacf/0xdf0 fs/coredump.c:1049
 do_coredump fs/coredump.c:1126 [inline]
 vfs_coredump+0x24f7/0x2e60 fs/coredump.c:1200
 get_signal+0xd84/0xf70 kernel/signal.c:3019
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x96/0x450 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:41 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:75 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:270 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:339 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0xf9/0x560 kernel/entry/common.c:196
 exc_general_protection+0x15b/0x1e0 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:913
 asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:612

value changed: 0x0000000100001b5b -> 0x0000000100001b5c

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 19696 Comm: syz.5.6060 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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Crashes (522):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/11 19:10 upstream 755bc1335e3b d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/11 07:03 upstream 97313d6113ab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/10 20:34 upstream b6151c4e60e5 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/10 00:58 upstream 372800cb95a3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/09 16:20 upstream 623fb9912f6a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/08 22:09 upstream 79b95d74470d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/06 22:18 upstream f0b9d8eb98df d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/06 13:54 upstream 7f98ab9da046 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/05 07:08 upstream 3609fa95fb0f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/04 19:04 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/03 16:01 upstream 805f9a061372 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2026/01/01 19:41 upstream b69053dd3ffb d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/31 21:58 upstream 349bd28a86f2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/31 08:16 upstream c8ebd433459b d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/30 21:30 upstream dbf8fe85a16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/30 00:10 upstream 8640b74557fc d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/29 10:44 upstream 7839932417dd d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/29 06:33 upstream c875a6c32467 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/28 01:13 upstream d26143bb38e2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/27 06:18 upstream 3f0e9c8cefa9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/26 06:03 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/23 08:19 upstream b927546677c8 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/23 00:18 upstream 9448598b22c5 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/22 07:20 upstream 765b233a9b94 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/21 18:22 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/20 19:47 upstream d8ba32c5a460 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/19 14:08 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/18 22:46 upstream 516471569089 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/17 13:48 upstream ea1013c15392 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/16 22:07 upstream 40fbbd64bba6 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/14 13:28 upstream 8f0b4cce4481 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/13 23:44 upstream 9d9c1cfec01c d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/13 09:46 upstream 9551a26f17d9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/12 11:07 upstream 187d0801404f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/12 05:23 upstream d358e5254674 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/10 21:59 upstream 0048fbb4011e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/10 10:22 upstream c9b47175e913 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/10 00:31 upstream cb015814f8b6 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/09 05:56 upstream cfd4039213e7 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/07 22:28 upstream 37bb2e7217b0 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/07 04:19 upstream cc3ee4ba57b7 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/06 20:10 upstream 416f99c3b16f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/05 21:22 upstream d1d36025a617 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2025/12/05 09:38 upstream 2061f18ad76e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
2024/08/30 11:58 upstream 20371ba12063 ee2602b8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited / tick_do_update_jiffies64
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.