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KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (10)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/12/14 03:38
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+d120bbc65fa373916946@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 74d, last: 3d01h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
8d0e3a1a-0d54-4a82-877e-dbbe243f27f6 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅  Confident: ✅  KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (10) 2026/01/15 13:51 2026/01/15 13:51 2026/01/15 13:55 a9d6a79219801d2130df3b1a792c57f0e5428e9f
Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (7) mm 6 10 556d 538d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/23 07:15
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (8) mm ext4 6 3 236d 305d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/30 17:27
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (5) mm 6 8 878d 974d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/06 01:09
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (3) mm fs 6 3 1072d 1090d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/29 19:41
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead fs 6 7 1493d 1567d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/03/01 21:22
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (9) mm 6 1 169d 169d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/05 13:57
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (2) fs 6 1 1278d 1278d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/10/02 20:33
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (6) fs mm 6 5 694d 788d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/08 09:54
upstream KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead (4) fs 6 1 1031d 1031d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/06 03:32

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead

write to 0xffff88810379c690 of 8 bytes by task 3797 on cpu 1:
 do_sync_mmap_readahead+0x2d8/0x350 mm/filemap.c:-1
 filemap_fault+0x362/0xb90 mm/filemap.c:3549
 __do_fault+0xbc/0x200 mm/memory.c:5363
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:5798 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:5932 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4477 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6316 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:6454 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x11d7/0x3020 mm/memory.c:6623
 do_user_addr_fault+0x3fd/0x1050 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1385
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1474 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x62/0xa0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1527
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
 fault_in_readable+0xad/0x170 mm/gup.c:-1
 fault_in_iov_iter_readable+0x129/0x210 lib/iov_iter.c:106
 generic_perform_write+0x3ce/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4363
 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x1ee/0x3c0 fs/ext4/file.c:300
 ext4_file_write_iter+0x380/0xfa0 fs/ext4/file.c:-1
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x5a6/0x9f0 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:740
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:751 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:748 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:748
 x64_sys_call+0x27e1/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x370 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff88810379c690 of 8 bytes by task 3798 on cpu 0:
 do_sync_mmap_readahead+0x31a/0x350 mm/filemap.c:3399
 filemap_fault+0x362/0xb90 mm/filemap.c:3549
 __do_fault+0xbc/0x200 mm/memory.c:5363
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:5798 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:5932 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4477 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6316 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:6454 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x11d7/0x3020 mm/memory.c:6623
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:1126 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x1023/0x1ea0 mm/gup.c:1428
 populate_vma_page_range mm/gup.c:1860 [inline]
 __mm_populate+0x242/0x390 mm/gup.c:1963
 mm_populate include/linux/mm.h:3899 [inline]
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x23b/0x2d0 mm/util.c:586
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x267/0x310 mm/mmap.c:605
 x64_sys_call+0x14df/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:10
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x370 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x0000000000000009 -> 0x000000000000003c

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3798 Comm: syz.3.118 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
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Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/23 21:43 upstream 7dff99b35460 6beca497 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead
2026/01/24 14:26 upstream 62085877ae65 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead
2026/01/05 15:28 upstream 3609fa95fb0f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead
2025/12/14 03:37 upstream 9d9c1cfec01c d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in do_sync_mmap_readahead / do_sync_mmap_readahead
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.