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KCSAN: data-race in tcp_assign_congestion_control / tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/17 16:08
Subsystems: net
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Reported-by: syzbot+937b5bbb6a815b3e5d0b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
Patched on: [ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 6d18h, last: 6d18h
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH net] tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() 3 (3) 2026/02/19 22:30
[syzbot] [net?] KCSAN: data-race in tcp_assign_congestion_control / tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock 0 (1) 2026/02/17 16:08

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in tcp_assign_congestion_control / tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock

read-write to 0xffff888103ccb073 of 1 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0:
 tcp_assign_congestion_control+0x2d3/0x310 net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c:-1
 tcp_ca_openreq_child+0x196/0x1d0 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c:522
 tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0x4ce/0xa90 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1760
 tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock+0xb1/0xe70 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1340
 tcp_check_req+0xddd/0x1150 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c:927
 tcp_v4_rcv+0xeda/0x1d90 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2238
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x395/0x790 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:207
 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x1fc/0x2f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:241
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 ip_local_deliver+0xe8/0x1e0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:262
 dst_input include/net/dst.h:480 [inline]
 ip_rcv_finish+0x194/0x1c0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:453
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 ip_rcv+0x62/0x160 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:573
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6149 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6262 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x341/0x670 net/core/dev.c:6614
 __napi_poll+0x5f/0x310 net/core/dev.c:7678
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7741 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x452/0x930 net/core/dev.c:7893
 handle_softirqs+0xb9/0x280 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x45/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:523
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x70/0x80 kernel/softirq.c:450
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:924 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x139a/0x1f20 net/core/dev.c:4856
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3384 [inline]
 neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:540 [inline]
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:554 [inline]
 ip_finish_output2+0x705/0x8c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237
 __ip_finish_output net/ipv4/ip_output.c:-1 [inline]
 ip_finish_output+0x114/0x2a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:325
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 ip_output+0xbd/0x1c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:470 [inline]
 ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:131 [inline]
 __ip_queue_xmit+0xbb0/0xbf0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:534
 ip_queue_xmit+0x39/0x50 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:548
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0x1af2/0x1f10 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1693
 tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1711 [inline]
 tcp_write_xmit+0x1597/0x3640 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3064
 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x6d/0x1b0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3247
 tcp_push_pending_frames include/net/tcp.h:2282 [inline]
 __tcp_sock_set_cork net/ipv4/tcp.c:3688 [inline]
 tcp_sock_set_cork+0xe1/0x100 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3695
 rds_tcp_xmit_path_complete+0x3b/0x50 net/rds/tcp_send.c:52
 rds_send_xmit+0x128c/0x16f0 net/rds/send.c:480
 rds_send_worker+0x44/0x1b0 net/rds/threads.c:200
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3275 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4cd/0x9d0 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 0xffff888103ccb040 of 128 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
 tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock+0x103/0xe70 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1353
 tcp_check_req+0xddd/0x1150 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c:927
 tcp_v4_rcv+0xeda/0x1d90 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2238
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x395/0x790 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:207
 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x1fc/0x2f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:241
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 ip_local_deliver+0xe8/0x1e0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:262
 dst_input include/net/dst.h:480 [inline]
 ip_rcv_finish+0x194/0x1c0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:453
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 ip_rcv+0x62/0x160 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:573
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6149 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6262 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x341/0x670 net/core/dev.c:6614
 __napi_poll+0x5f/0x310 net/core/dev.c:7678
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7741 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x452/0x930 net/core/dev.c:7893
 handle_softirqs+0xb9/0x280 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x45/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:523
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x70/0x80 kernel/softirq.c:450
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:924 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x139a/0x1f20 net/core/dev.c:4856
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3384 [inline]
 neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:540 [inline]
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:554 [inline]
 ip_finish_output2+0x705/0x8c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237
 __ip_finish_output net/ipv4/ip_output.c:-1 [inline]
 ip_finish_output+0x114/0x2a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:325
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 ip_output+0xbd/0x1c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:470 [inline]
 ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:131 [inline]
 __ip_queue_xmit+0xbb0/0xbf0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:534
 ip_queue_xmit+0x39/0x50 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:548
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0x1af2/0x1f10 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1693
 tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1711 [inline]
 tcp_write_xmit+0x1597/0x3640 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3064
 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x6d/0x1b0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3247
 tcp_send_fin+0x58a/0x6a0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3846
 __tcp_close+0x67d/0x1130 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3258
 tcp_close+0x28/0xd0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3349
 inet_release+0xcd/0xf0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:437
 inet6_release+0x3e/0x60 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:487
 __sock_release net/socket.c:662 [inline]
 sock_release+0x4b/0xe0 net/socket.c:690
 rds_tcp_accept_one+0x4a1/0x830 net/rds/tcp_listen.c:345
 rds_tcp_accept_worker+0x1a/0x60 net/rds/tcp.c:524
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3275 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4cd/0x9d0 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

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1918 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
Workqueue: krdsd rds_tcp_accept_worker
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/13 17:47 upstream cee73b1e840c 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in tcp_assign_congestion_control / tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.