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

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/01/04 00:52
Subsystems: modules
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Reported-by: syzbot+fab52e3459fa2f95df57@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 335d, last: 1d17h
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 1093d 1093d 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 558d 558d 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 2185d 2185d 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 598d 726d 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 841d 927d 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 1283d 1287d 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 1588d 1588d 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 1424d 1543d 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 2099d 2099d 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 1183d 1235d 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 413d 448d 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 1778d 1778d 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 516d 516d 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 0xffffffff86860018 of 4 bytes by task 11503 on cpu 0:
 free_pid+0xb9/0x1d0 kernel/pid.c:126
 free_pids+0x7a/0xb0 kernel/pid.c:159
 release_task+0x9b1/0xb70 kernel/exit.c:297
 exit_notify kernel/exit.c:779 [inline]
 do_exit+0xd91/0x15d0 kernel/exit.c:985
 call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x247/0x250 kernel/umh.c:122
 ret_from_fork+0x149/0x290 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

read to 0xffffffff86860018 of 4 bytes by task 31 on cpu 1:
 copy_process+0x16d4/0x1ef0 kernel/fork.c:2351
 kernel_clone+0x16c/0x5c0 kernel/fork.c:2608
 user_mode_thread+0x7d/0xb0 kernel/fork.c:2684
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x41/0x160 kernel/umh.c:171
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4ce/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
 worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x489/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x149/0x290 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

value changed: 0x80000186 -> 0x80000185

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: events_unbound call_usermodehelper_exec_work
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Crashes (185):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/04 04:41 upstream 8f7aa3d3c732 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/12/03 20:10 upstream 3f9f0252130e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/12/03 06:09 upstream d61f1cc5db79 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/12/02 17:06 upstream 4a26e7032d7d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/12/01 22:20 upstream 7d0a66e4bb90 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/30 22:46 upstream e69c7c175115 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/25 19:49 upstream 8a2bcda5e139 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/22 06:40 upstream 2eba5e05d9bc 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/20 16:50 upstream 23cb64fb7625 2cc4c24a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/19 23:57 upstream 23cb64fb7625 26ee5237 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/18 07:40 upstream e7c375b18160 ef766cd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/17 17:19 upstream 6a23ae0a96a6 ef766cd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/16 23:51 upstream 7254a2b52279 f7988ea4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/16 05:26 upstream f824272b6e3f f7988ea4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/14 18:48 upstream 6da43bbeb691 f7988ea4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/12 04:20 upstream 24172e0d7990 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/11 15:57 upstream 4427259cc7f7 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/09 17:11 upstream 439fc29dfd3b 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/08 11:05 upstream e811c33b1f13 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/08 04:17 upstream da32d155f4a8 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/07 11:00 upstream 4a0c9b339199 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/06 13:17 upstream dc77806cf3b4 a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/05 02:14 upstream 17d85f33a83b 686bf657 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/11/03 18:40 upstream 6146a0f1dfae 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/31 17:40 upstream 58fdd8484c05 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/28 18:48 upstream fd57572253bc fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/25 02:37 upstream d2818517e348 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/24 11:09 upstream 6fab32bb6508 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/20 13:09 upstream 211ddde0823f 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/19 20:45 upstream d9043c79ba68 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/16 21:56 upstream 98ac9cc4b445 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/16 00:35 upstream 1f4a222b0e33 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/15 12:14 upstream 9b332cece987 b6605ba8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/13 13:37 upstream 3a8660878839 b6605ba8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/13 03:36 upstream 8765f467912f ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/11 09:34 upstream 0739473694c4 ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/11 04:06 upstream 917167ed1211 ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/10 04:13 upstream 5472d60c129f ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/09 01:21 upstream cd5a0afbdf80 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/08 05:54 upstream 971199ad2a0f 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/03 21:37 upstream 9b0d551bcc05 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/03 06:17 upstream e406d57be7bd 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/10/01 00:09 upstream 30d4efb2f5a5 65a0eece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/09/30 00:45 upstream 1896ce8eb6c6 86341da6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/09/28 07:01 upstream 51a24b7deaae 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / free_pid
2025/09/26 22:10 upstream 083fc6d7fa0d 001c9061 .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.