KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string (7)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/07/27 12:25
Subsystems: ext4
Labels: race:benign prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+39c518c216ae4e2cc47a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d06h, last: 3d06h
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
5dd6ac4e assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string (7) 2026/07/29 00:49 2026/07/29 00:49 2026/07/29 01:14 7be3c40b

			
		
9f31ec4d assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string (7) 2026/07/27 12:24 2026/07/27 12:24 2026/07/27 12:44 492bab15

			
		
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string (2) ext4 6 2 840d 859d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/15 22:06
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string (4) ext4 6 1 575d 575d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/26 06:42
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string (3) ext4 6 2 700d 707d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/03 11:49
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string (6) race:benign prio:high ext4 6 1 74d 74d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/11 23:20
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string (5) ext4 6 2 154d 172d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/22 19:10
upstream KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string ext4 6 1 920d 920d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/26 12:58

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string

write to 0xffff88811ca0d050 of 1 bytes by task 3743 on cpu 0:
 string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:652 [inline]
 string+0x165/0x220 lib/vsprintf.c:730
 bdev_name+0x12a/0x2b0 lib/vsprintf.c:971
 pointer+0x5bc/0xc90 lib/vsprintf.c:2592
 vsnprintf+0x49e/0x8c0 lib/vsprintf.c:2949
 snprintf+0x86/0xb0 lib/vsprintf.c:3043
 ext4_multi_mount_protect+0x4eb/0x600 fs/ext4/mmp.c:381
 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5501 [inline]
 ext4_fill_super+0x2260/0x3760 fs/ext4/super.c:5828
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x291/0x300 fs/super.c:1640
 get_tree_bdev+0x1f/0x30 fs/super.c:1663
 ext4_get_tree+0x1c/0x30 fs/ext4/super.c:5860
 vfs_get_tree+0x57/0x1d0 fs/super.c:1700
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3765 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x288/0x8d0 fs/namespace.c:3841
 path_mount+0x4ad/0xb90 fs/namespace.c:4161
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4174 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4390 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x28c/0x2e0 fs/namespace.c:4367
 __x64_sys_mount+0x67/0x80 fs/namespace.c:4367
 x64_sys_call+0x2d61/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166
 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 0xffff88811ca0d000 of 512 bytes by task 3287 on cpu 1:
 instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:130 [inline]
 copy_to_user_iter lib/iov_iter.c:24 [inline]
 iterate_ubuf include/linux/iov_iter.h:30 [inline]
 iterate_and_advance2 include/linux/iov_iter.h:302 [inline]
 iterate_and_advance include/linux/iov_iter.h:330 [inline]
 _copy_to_iter+0x130/0xea0 lib/iov_iter.c:197
 copy_page_to_iter+0x174/0x210 lib/iov_iter.c:374
 copy_folio_to_iter include/linux/uio.h:204 [inline]
 filemap_read+0x3ed/0xa20 mm/filemap.c:2865
 blkdev_read_iter+0x21e/0x2d0 block/fops.c:830
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:493 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x699/0x7c0 fs/read_write.c:574
 ksys_read+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:716
 __do_sys_read fs/read_write.c:725 [inline]
 __se_sys_read fs/read_write.c:723 [inline]
 __x64_sys_read+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:723
 x64_sys_call+0x2886/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:1
 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

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3287 Comm: udevd Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/27 12:24 upstream f5098b6bae76 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in _copy_to_iter / string
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.