================================================================== BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __d_instantiate / step_into read-write to 0xffff88810556b900 of 4 bytes by task 3294 on cpu 1: fsnotify_update_flags include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h:-1 [inline] __d_instantiate+0x2c2/0x3b0 fs/dcache.c:1938 d_instantiate+0x59/0x80 fs/dcache.c:1963 shmem_symlink+0x3a7/0x3d0 mm/shmem.c:4200 vfs_symlink+0xd4/0x1e0 fs/namei.c:4730 do_symlinkat+0xc7/0x3c0 fs/namei.c:4756 __do_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4777 [inline] __se_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4775 [inline] __x64_sys_symlink+0x50/0x60 fs/namei.c:4775 x64_sys_call+0x23cc/0x2ff0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:89 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 read to 0xffff88810556b900 of 4 bytes by task 2992 on cpu 0: __follow_mount_rcu fs/namei.c:1572 [inline] handle_mounts fs/namei.c:1623 [inline] step_into+0xe3/0x820 fs/namei.c:1967 walk_component+0x162/0x220 fs/namei.c:2135 lookup_last fs/namei.c:2630 [inline] path_lookupat+0xfe/0x2a0 fs/namei.c:2654 filename_lookup+0x147/0x340 fs/namei.c:2683 do_readlinkat+0x7d/0x320 fs/stat.c:576 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:613 [inline] __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:610 [inline] __x64_sys_readlink+0x47/0x60 fs/stat.c:610 x64_sys_call+0x28da/0x2ff0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:90 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: 0x00000080 -> 0x00300080 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2992 Comm: udevd Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-syzkaller-00016-g8742b2d8935f #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025 ==================================================================