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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in kick_pool / wq_worker_running

read-write to 0xffff888237d29d64 of 4 bytes by task 3384 on cpu 1:
 wq_worker_running+0x95/0x120 kernel/workqueue.c:1404
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x10/0x20 kernel/sched/core.c:7115
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:676 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x467/0xcc0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:760
 __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xa/0x10 kernel/locking/mutex.c:1049
 mutex_lock+0x27/0x30 kernel/locking/mutex.c:274
 pcpu_balance_workfn+0x4a/0xc00 mm/percpu.c:2204
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4cb/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x489/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x11f/0x1b0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffff888237d29d64 of 4 bytes by task 8869 on cpu 0:
 need_more_worker kernel/workqueue.c:938 [inline]
 kick_pool+0x49/0x2d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1244
 __queue_work+0x8cb/0xb50 kernel/workqueue.c:2340
 queue_work_on+0xd1/0x160 kernel/workqueue.c:2390
 queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:669 [inline]
 schedule_work include/linux/workqueue.h:730 [inline]
 pcpu_schedule_balance_work mm/percpu.c:204 [inline]
 pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x9a7/0x1250 mm/percpu.c:1856
 mpls_add_dev net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1447 [inline]
 mpls_dev_notify+0x189/0x8d0 net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1600
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:85 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x6f/0x1b0 kernel/notifier.c:453
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xae/0x100 net/core/dev.c:2229
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2267 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2281 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0xd48/0xf00 net/core/dev.c:11244
 batadv_meshif_newlink+0x7d/0x90 net/batman-adv/mesh-interface.c:1088
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x1bc/0x620 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3825
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3942 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0xf29/0x12d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4057
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x5fe/0x6d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6946
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x123/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6973
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x5bd/0x690 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
 netlink_sendmsg+0x58b/0x6b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x142/0x180 net/socket.c:729
 __sys_sendto+0x268/0x330 net/socket.c:2228
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2235 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2231 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90 net/socket.c:2231
 x64_sys_call+0x2d05/0x2ff0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:45
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xd2/0x200 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8869 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
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