KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (14)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/01/04 00:52
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+fab52e3459fa2f95df57@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 575d, last: 2d00h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
a769034c assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (14) 2026/05/24 04:39 2026/05/24 04:39 2026/05/24 05:16 c69befb3

			
		
2c5f0b53 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ Confident: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (14) 2026/01/15 10:44 2026/01/15 10:44 2026/01/15 11:06 a9d6a792

			
		
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH v2] pid: annotate data-races around pid_ns->pid_allocated 4 (4) 2025/04/28 08:30
[PATCH v1] pid: annotate data-races around pid_ns->pid_allocated 7 (7) 2025/04/25 05:37
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (8) kernel 6 1 1332d 1332d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/17 03:08
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (11) kernel 6 1 798d 798d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/30 01:30
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid mm 6 1 2424d 2424d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/02/20 19:37
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (10) kernel 6 23 837d 966d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/21 14:09
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (9) kernel 6 12 1081d 1166d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/21 05:02
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (6) kernel 6 2 1522d 1526d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/07/06 07:38
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (4) kernel 6 1 1827d 1827d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/09/04 11:26
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (5) kernel 6 32 1663d 1782d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/02/15 18:33
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (2) kasan 6 1 2339d 2339d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/05/15 22:36
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (7) kernel 6 4 1422d 1474d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/10/14 18:22
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (13) kernel 6 6 653d 687d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/22 02:42
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (3) kernel 6 1 2018d 2018d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/02/26 04:07
upstream KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid (12) kernel 6 1 755d 755d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/11 08:23

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid

read-write to 0xffffffff86c5c268 of 4 bytes by task 3303 on cpu 1:
 free_pid+0xb3/0x1b0 kernel/pid.c:124
 free_pids+0x54/0xb0 kernel/pid.c:156
 release_task+0x990/0xb40 kernel/exit.c:300
 wait_task_zombie kernel/exit.c:1314 [inline]
 wait_consider_task+0x10ef/0x15f0 kernel/exit.c:1541
 do_wait_thread kernel/exit.c:1604 [inline]
 __do_wait+0xf1/0x500 kernel/exit.c:1722
 do_wait+0xb6/0x230 kernel/exit.c:1756
 kernel_wait4+0x19f/0x210 kernel/exit.c:1915
 __do_sys_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1943 [inline]
 __se_sys_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1939 [inline]
 __x64_sys_wait4+0x91/0x120 kernel/exit.c:1939
 x64_sys_call+0x2aee/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:62
 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 0xffffffff86c5c268 of 4 bytes by task 5280 on cpu 0:
 copy_process+0x1aae/0x2310 kernel/fork.c:2468
 kernel_clone+0x1c0/0x5f0 kernel/fork.c:2748
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2889 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2873 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x143/0x180 kernel/fork.c:2873
 x64_sys_call+0x1222/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:57
 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: 0x800000e2 -> 0x800000e1

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5280 Comm: dhcpcd-run-hook Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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Crashes (301):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/31 04:18 upstream 3708dd948844 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/07/29 00:35 upstream 3b5f4b83c4ab edc8a875 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/07/26 18:39 upstream 3dab139d4795 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/07/10 13:39 upstream a635d6748234 99e64375 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/07/07 14:27 upstream 0e35b9b6ec0f 76cdc0c0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/07/07 07:20 upstream 0e35b9b6ec0f 8e71ce95 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/07/05 15:19 upstream 7404ce516372 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/07/03 00:39 upstream 4a50a141f05a 2b70b115 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/07/01 12:56 upstream 665159e24674 00a5cf1c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/06/26 03:57 upstream a142da0b2d32 7ff32d8b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/06/24 18:04 upstream 840ef6c78e6a 302586aa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/06/23 08:02 upstream 502d801f0ab0 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/06/19 04:34 upstream 83f1454877cc a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/06/15 04:39 upstream 95e56f0f293e 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/06/09 08:41 upstream 2d3090a8aeb5 656e94c6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/28 11:36 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 681715f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/27 19:57 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 8777bdc3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/23 20:35 upstream eed108edc117 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/19 23:47 upstream 27fa82620cba 0909d65f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/19 11:30 upstream ab5fce87a778 223544dc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/17 18:46 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/16 20:20 upstream d458a240344c a15a64a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/15 03:46 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/12 18:31 upstream c21b90f77687 07aeade5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/09 21:11 upstream e92b2872d0b1 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/08 06:32 upstream fcee7d82f27d 5633175a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/07 19:41 upstream 8ab992f815d6 cbf9e0fc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/05/02 23:16 upstream 66edb901bf87 a0d91488 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/25 07:33 upstream 27d128c1cff6 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/21 20:22 upstream 4ee64205ffaa 0b6ab7ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/19 09:54 upstream faeab166167f 303e2802 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/17 22:52 upstream 43cfbdda5af6 24ecfc1e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/14 13:52 upstream d60bc1401583 362d1323 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/14 03:32 upstream 26ff969926a0 1a086e7c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/11 00:20 upstream 7c6c4ed80b87 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/10 09:10 upstream 9a9c8ce300cd 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/09 09:58 upstream 7f87a5ea75f0 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/06 23:43 upstream bfe62a454542 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/06 12:46 upstream 591cd656a1bf 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/05 17:51 upstream 1791c390149f 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/04/05 11:33 upstream 3aae9383f42f 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/03/30 15:43 upstream 7aaa8047eafd dcaebc52 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/03/27 23:38 upstream 7df48e363130 74a13a23 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/03/10 06:41 upstream 1f318b96cc84 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2026/01/11 04:35 upstream 97313d6113ab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/01/04 00:51 upstream 63676eefb7a0 f3558dbf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.