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KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/04/26 15:09
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+86d8f93cf23743800fc8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 49d, last: 1d07h
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
0cc79473-5b7d-4fde-b818-e61a7c4ccf38 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper 2026/05/12 03:02 2026/05/12 03:02 2026/05/12 03:47 d168f2605715ec7b7ab6840d636f69c758e424d9
e59ce648-cecf-4203-b697-885c383e4487 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ Confident: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper 2026/04/26 15:09 2026/04/26 15:09 2026/04/26 15:29 9c2d0995bb06e7518555bd3b755e327c89b59823

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper

write to 0xffffffff86d4f8c8 of 56 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 update_fast_timekeeper+0x38/0x70 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:476
 timekeeping_update_from_shadow+0x3ab/0x440 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:812
 __timekeeping_advance+0xa68/0xc10 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2532
 timekeeping_advance kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2540 [inline]
 update_wall_time+0x21/0x50 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2550
 tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x169/0x1c0 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:149
 tick_sched_do_timer kernel/time/tick-sched.c:253 [inline]
 tick_nohz_handler+0x88/0x3d0 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:312
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1930 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1f8/0x510 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1994
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x257/0x810 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2113
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5f/0x1c0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1067
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
 console_flush_one_record arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:-1 [inline]
 console_flush_all+0x513/0x6b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:3343
 __console_flush_and_unlock kernel/printk/printk.c:3373 [inline]
 console_unlock+0xa1/0x280 kernel/printk/printk.c:3413
 vprintk_emit+0x3e4/0x600 kernel/printk/printk.c:2479
 vprintk_default+0x26/0x30 kernel/printk/printk.c:2494
 vprintk+0x1d/0x30 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:82
 _printk+0x79/0xa0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504
 br_set_state+0x2b9/0x390 net/bridge/br_stp.c:57
 br_init_port+0x5c/0xf0 net/bridge/br_stp_if.c:39
 new_nbp+0x22b/0x300 net/bridge/br_if.c:443
 br_add_if+0x1e7/0xa60 net/bridge/br_if.c:586
 br_add_slave+0x2c/0x40 net/bridge/br_device.c:375
 do_set_master+0x37b/0x450 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2986
 do_setlink+0x976/0x2890 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3188
 rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3800 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3973 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1086/0x1400 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4110
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x64b/0x720 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6997
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x11e/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2555
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7024
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x5a7/0x680 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x5be/0x6f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1899
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x42e/0x490 net/socket.c:2266
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2273 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2269 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90 net/socket.c:2269
 x64_sys_call+0x2d35/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:45
 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 0xffffffff86d4f8e8 of 8 bytes by task 6307 on cpu 1:
 timekeeping_cycles_to_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:444 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:449 [inline]
 __ktime_get_fast_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:497 [inline]
 ktime_get_mono_fast_ns+0xdf/0x1a0 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:537
 ____bpf_ktime_get_ns kernel/bpf/helpers.c:181 [inline]
 bpf_ktime_get_ns+0xe/0x20 kernel/bpf/helpers.c:178
 bpf_prog_160878b8e03077ee+0x4b/0x53
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1402 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:722 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:729 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu include/linux/filter.h:746 [inline]
 bpf_flow_dissect+0x14f/0x340 net/core/flow_dissector.c:1024
 bpf_prog_test_run_flow_dissector+0x25d/0x360 net/bpf/test_run.c:1525
 bpf_prog_test_run+0x208/0x340 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4742
 __sys_bpf+0x52e/0x7e0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6292
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6387 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6385 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bpf+0x41/0x50 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6385
 x64_sys_call+0x10cb/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:322
 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

value changed: 0x002ea508a03794ba -> 0x002f33c3b08e10cc

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6307 Comm: syz.5.9104 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
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Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/14 06:14 upstream 2b07ea76fd28 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper
2026/05/31 18:12 upstream 174914ea5513 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper
2026/05/28 00:48 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 4c36e7e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper
2026/05/17 16:06 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper
2026/05/13 01:43 upstream c21b90f77687 a0949470 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper
2026/05/10 16:20 upstream 1bfaee9d3351 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper
2026/05/09 07:19 upstream 27a26ccfd528 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper
2026/04/26 15:09 upstream 897d54018cc9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_mono_fast_ns / update_fast_timekeeper
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.