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upstream test error: KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_limited_add / __percpu_counter_limited_add (4)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/02/13 06:53
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+6de02af21cddc23978c4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 24d, last: 24d
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream upstream test error: KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_limited_add / __percpu_counter_limited_add (2) mm -1 1 503d 503d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/17 04:16
upstream upstream test error: KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_limited_add / __percpu_counter_limited_add mm -1 1 567d 567d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/23 06:21
upstream upstream test error: KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_limited_add / __percpu_counter_limited_add (3) mm -1 1 329d 329d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/09 18:19

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

write to 0xffff88810d329910 of 8 bytes by task 3501 on cpu 0:
 __percpu_counter_limited_add+0x38c/0x400 lib/percpu_counter.c:386
 percpu_counter_limited_add include/linux/percpu_counter.h:77 [inline]
 shmem_inode_acct_blocks+0xf4/0x230 mm/shmem.c:232
 shmem_alloc_and_add_folio mm/shmem.c:2002 [inline]
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x5b2/0xd60 mm/shmem.c:2567
 shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2673 [inline]
 shmem_write_begin+0xfc/0x1f0 mm/shmem.c:3326
 generic_perform_write+0x183/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4314
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xc5/0xf0 mm/shmem.c:3501
 __kernel_write_iter+0x319/0x590 fs/read_write.c:621
 dump_emit_page fs/coredump.c:1299 [inline]
 dump_user_range+0xa7d/0xdb0 fs/coredump.c:1373
 elf_core_dump+0x21a2/0x2330 fs/binfmt_elf.c:2111
 coredump_write+0xacf/0xdf0 fs/coredump.c:1050
 do_coredump fs/coredump.c:1127 [inline]
 vfs_coredump+0x26c7/0x3130 fs/coredump.c:1201
 get_signal+0xd7b/0xf60 kernel/signal.c:3019
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x96/0x450 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:98 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:270 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:339 [inline]
 irqentry_exit+0xf7/0x520 kernel/entry/common.c:219
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618

read to 0xffff88810d329910 of 8 bytes by task 3655 on cpu 1:
 __percpu_counter_limited_add+0xc0/0x400 lib/percpu_counter.c:-1
 percpu_counter_limited_add include/linux/percpu_counter.h:77 [inline]
 shmem_inode_acct_blocks+0xf4/0x230 mm/shmem.c:232
 shmem_alloc_and_add_folio mm/shmem.c:2002 [inline]
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x5b2/0xd60 mm/shmem.c:2567
 shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2673 [inline]
 shmem_write_begin+0xfc/0x1f0 mm/shmem.c:3326
 generic_perform_write+0x183/0x490 mm/filemap.c:4314
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xc5/0xf0 mm/shmem.c:3501
 __kernel_write_iter+0x319/0x590 fs/read_write.c:621
 dump_emit_page fs/coredump.c:1299 [inline]
 dump_user_range+0xa7d/0xdb0 fs/coredump.c:1373
 elf_core_dump+0x21a2/0x2330 fs/binfmt_elf.c:2111
 coredump_write+0xacf/0xdf0 fs/coredump.c:1050
 do_coredump fs/coredump.c:1127 [inline]
 vfs_coredump+0x26c7/0x3130 fs/coredump.c:1201
 get_signal+0xd7b/0xf60 kernel/signal.c:3019
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x96/0x450 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x6a/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: 0x0000000000001e8d -> 0x0000000000001eae

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3655 Comm: syz.3.320 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
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syz.3.320 (3655) used greatest stack depth: 9856 bytes left

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/13 06:53 upstream cee73b1e840c 6a673c50 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce upstream test error: KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_limited_add / __percpu_counter_limited_add
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.