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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
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Reported-by: syzbot+e5a59428bbf2722641f7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d08h, last: 2d08h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
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 0xffffffff893a7488 of 304 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
 timekeeping_update_from_shadow+0x40d/0x440 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:829
 __timekeeping_advance+0xa5d/0xc10 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2532
 timekeeping_advance kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2540 [inline]
 update_wall_time+0x21/0x50 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2550
 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+0x8d/0x3d0 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:312
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1930 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x276/0x4f0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1994
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x261/0x850 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2113
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5f/0x1c0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1067
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
 native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:48 [inline]
 pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:62
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/kernel/process.c:766 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x3b/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x17f/0x2b0 kernel/sched/idle.c:352
 cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x30 kernel/sched/idle.c:451
 start_secondary+0x95/0xa0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x147

read to 0xffffffff893a7498 of 8 bytes by task 2982 on cpu 0:
 timekeeping_cycles_to_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:426 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:449 [inline]
 ktime_get_ts64+0xf0/0x350 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:1110
 ep_timeout_to_timespec fs/eventpoll.c:1873 [inline]
 __do_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2473 [inline]
 __se_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2467 [inline]
 __x64_sys_epoll_wait+0xd9/0x190 fs/eventpoll.c:2467
 x64_sys_call+0x273e/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:233
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x000000f0e113a4a9 -> 0x000000f0e2635616

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2982 Comm: udevd Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/09 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.