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KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (16)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/02/10 19:13
Subsystems: ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+3a0c4dc7649cd539aef7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 20d, last: 9d08h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
e32ee147-c6c2-4b5a-a8a6-2bcbaa8c81c6 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅  Confident: ✅  KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (16) 2026/02/24 18:58 2026/02/24 18:58 2026/02/24 19:00 305c0ec5cd886e2d13738e28e1b2df9b0ec20fc9
cd987eb7-95b4-403e-a3e3-94c345414f9f assessment-kcsan 💥 KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (16) 2026/02/10 19:13 2026/02/13 12:42 2026/02/13 12:42 3f45136dc7eb71e0f74e923b9f5ca8ecd555f59a fork/exec ./syz-agent: no such file or directory
Similar bugs (15)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (3) fs 6 1 1237d 1237d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/11/16 21:51
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (5) fs 6 2 1043d 1054d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/30 05:48
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (7) ext4 6 3 868d 896d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/20 11:49
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (9) fs 6 1 773d 773d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/23 17:16
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (11) exfat 6 1 546d 546d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/07 09:54
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (6) ext4 6 1 933d 933d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/17 01:43
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (10) fs 6 1 689d 689d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/17 23:40
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (13) ext4 6 2 444d 445d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/08 00:12
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (2) fs 6 14 1282d 1488d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/10/03 06:12
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (14) fs 6 1 342d 342d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/20 16:51
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (8) ext4 6 1 823d 812d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/04 10:47
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu ext4 6 137 1560d 1718d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/12/28 13:59
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (15) ext4 6 4 235d 273d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/04 15:11
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (12) fs 6 1 502d 502d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/20 10:12
upstream KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu (4) ext4 6 3 1148d 1199d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/03/11 22:09

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs (loop4): unmounting filesystem 00000000-0000-0006-0000-000000000000.
EXT4-fs (loop4): unmounting filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu

write to 0xffff888237c27760 of 8 bytes by task 3409 on cpu 0:
 __invalidate_bh_lrus fs/buffer.c:1526 [inline]
 invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu+0x83/0xc0 fs/buffer.c:1571
 lru_add_and_bh_lrus_drain mm/swap.c:753 [inline]
 lru_add_drain_per_cpu+0x55/0x70 mm/swap.c:772
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3275 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4de/0x9e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3358
 worker_thread+0x581/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3439
 kthread+0x22a/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x150/0x360 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffff888237c27760 of 8 bytes by task 3315 on cpu 1:
 has_bh_in_lru+0x35/0x1f0 fs/buffer.c:1548
 smp_call_function_many_cond+0x2c1/0xc30 kernel/smp.c:821
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3c/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1043
 on_each_cpu_cond include/linux/smp.h:106 [inline]
 invalidate_bh_lrus+0x2a/0x30 fs/buffer.c:1557
 invalidate_bdev+0x42/0x70 block/bdev.c:100
 ext4_put_super+0x624/0x7d0 fs/ext4/super.c:1353
 generic_shutdown_super+0xee/0x220 fs/super.c:646
 kill_block_super+0x2a/0x70 fs/super.c:1725
 ext4_kill_sb+0x42/0x80 fs/ext4/super.c:7459
 deactivate_locked_super+0x75/0x1c0 fs/super.c:476
 deactivate_super+0x97/0xa0 fs/super.c:509
 cleanup_mnt+0x2bb/0x330 fs/namespace.c:1312
 __cleanup_mnt+0x19/0x20 fs/namespace.c:1319
 task_work_run+0x130/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:67 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1f4/0x6f0 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x249/0x370 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0xffff88810645fc30 -> 0x0000000000000000

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3315 Comm: syz-executor 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 (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/22 01:25 upstream fa5c82f4d2bb 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu
2026/02/10 19:13 upstream 72c395024dac 91d776d3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in has_bh_in_lru / invalidate_bh_lrus_cpu
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.