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KCSAN: data-race in _copy_from_iter / copy_mc_to_kernel

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/02/12 04:53
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+bfef223fdab1b492ca23@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 25d, last: 25d
✨ AI Jobs (3)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
1b882c84-e168-4ca8-84e0-cc5751881fcc repro KCSAN: data-race in _copy_from_iter / copy_mc_to_kernel 2026/03/06 08:39 2026/03/06 08:39 2026/03/06 08:46 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
f5cb7edb-52ad-498c-a1a1-078a7739ff86 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅  Confident: ✅  KCSAN: data-race in _copy_from_iter / copy_mc_to_kernel 2026/02/24 16:43 2026/02/24 16:43 2026/02/24 16:46 305c0ec5cd886e2d13738e28e1b2df9b0ec20fc9
28a25ca8-bdd8-45ce-bfe9-8956919a9d30 assessment-kcsan 💥 KCSAN: data-race in _copy_from_iter / copy_mc_to_kernel 2026/02/12 16:24 2026/02/13 12:47 2026/02/13 12:52 3f45136dc7eb71e0f74e923b9f5ca8ecd555f59a fork/exec ./syz-agent: no such file or directory

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in _copy_from_iter / copy_mc_to_kernel

read to 0xffff88810bdab000 of 4096 bytes by task 4327 on cpu 0:
 instrument_memcpy_before include/linux/instrumented.h:165 [inline]
 copy_mc_to_kernel+0x43/0xb0 arch/x86/lib/copy_mc.c:74
 copy_mc_user_highpage include/linux/highmem.h:345 [inline]
 copy_present_page mm/memory.c:1063 [inline]
 copy_present_ptes mm/memory.c:1169 [inline]
 copy_pte_range mm/memory.c:1304 [inline]
 copy_pmd_range mm/memory.c:1392 [inline]
 copy_pud_range mm/memory.c:1429 [inline]
 copy_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1453 [inline]
 copy_page_range+0x1aad/0x3cf0 mm/memory.c:1539
 dup_mmap+0x852/0xf00 mm/mmap.c:1827
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1530 [inline]
 copy_mm+0x119/0x370 kernel/fork.c:1582
 copy_process+0xe22/0x20c0 kernel/fork.c:2223
 kernel_clone+0x16b/0x5b0 kernel/fork.c:2654
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2795 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2779 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x143/0x180 kernel/fork.c:2779
 x64_sys_call+0x1222/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:57
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x370 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

write to 0xffff88810bdab000 of 4096 bytes by task 4324 on cpu 1:
 instrument_copy_from_user_before include/linux/instrumented.h:130 [inline]
 copy_from_user_iter lib/iov_iter.c:66 [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_from_iter lib/iov_iter.c:261 [inline]
 _copy_from_iter+0x106/0xea0 lib/iov_iter.c:272
 copy_page_from_iter+0x178/0x2a0 lib/iov_iter.c:434
 process_vm_rw_pages mm/process_vm_access.c:43 [inline]
 process_vm_rw_single_vec mm/process_vm_access.c:118 [inline]
 process_vm_rw_core mm/process_vm_access.c:216 [inline]
 process_vm_rw+0x6ad/0x9c0 mm/process_vm_access.c:284
 __do_sys_process_vm_writev mm/process_vm_access.c:304 [inline]
 __se_sys_process_vm_writev mm/process_vm_access.c:299 [inline]
 __x64_sys_process_vm_writev+0x78/0x90 mm/process_vm_access.c:299
 x64_sys_call+0x1592/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:312
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x370 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: 4324 Comm: syz.2.249 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/12 04:53 upstream c22e26bd0906 76a109e2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in _copy_from_iter / copy_mc_to_kernel
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.