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KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/05/09 01:09
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+e5a59428bbf2722641f7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 48d, last: 4d03h
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
7df98d0f-f7c3-40a9-b4e3-5908bab6af4f assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow 2026/05/21 14:10 2026/05/21 14:10 2026/05/21 14:30 d57425845dbe663f86e1e54a4997e95bd557b624

			
		
6643669e-6726-460b-b099-06fdf3db5fd4 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow 2026/05/09 07:24 2026/05/09 07:24 2026/05/09 07:27 29233ece713919081e9069c2a18be92526041f39

			
		

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow

write to 0xffffffff893ca4c8 of 304 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 timekeeping_update_from_shadow+0x40d/0x440 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:835
 __timekeeping_advance+0xa68/0xc10 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2613
 timekeeping_advance kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2621 [inline]
 update_wall_time+0x21/0x50 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2631
 tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x169/0x1c0 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:149
 tick_sched_do_timer kernel/time/tick-sched.c:253 [inline]
 tick_nohz_handler+0x88/0x380 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:310
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2032 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1f8/0x510 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2096
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x257/0x810 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2215
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1051 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5f/0x1c0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1068
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
 __put_user_4+0x14/0x30 arch/x86/lib/putuser.S:95
 do_recvmmsg+0x208/0x560 net/socket.c:3047
 __sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3115 [inline]
 __do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3138 [inline]
 __se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3131 [inline]
 __x64_sys_recvmmsg+0xe5/0x170 net/socket.c:3131
 x64_sys_call+0x80f/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:300
 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 0xffffffff893ca4e8 of 8 bytes by task 3287 on cpu 1:
 timekeeping_cycles_to_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:450 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:455 [inline]
 ktime_get_ts64+0x155/0x350 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:1116
 poll_select_finish+0x1dd/0x440 fs/select.c:313
 do_pselect fs/select.c:771 [inline]
 __do_sys_pselect6 fs/select.c:809 [inline]
 __se_sys_pselect6+0x253/0x2a0 fs/select.c:800
 __x64_sys_pselect6+0x78/0x90 fs/select.c:800
 x64_sys_call+0x8d5/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:271
 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

value changed: 0x0021cf43753be6f0 -> 0x00226f7401effa92

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3287 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
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Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/22 05:06 upstream 8cd8cf7a07e5 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/21 07:43 upstream 390d73adf896 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/16 00:36 upstream 0e0611827f33 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/10 07:50 upstream 685441a6d3f1 34dab4be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/09 14:45 upstream 2d3090a8aeb5 c36c07f6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/08 02:58 upstream 33d8d8ec31b5 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/06 11:52 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/05/28 20:02 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 681715f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/05/09 01:09 upstream 917719c412c4 b2988c17 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.