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KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2024/02/02 01:17
Subsystems: ext4
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+22e9f4940fef7f9a657a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 872d, last: 7h39m
✨ AI Jobs (4)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
76f368c1-71f0-4622-9bbf-9161f71b68bd assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime (2) 2026/05/16 16:05 2026/05/16 17:16 2026/05/16 17:40 de5aae85e5f28e2fa1c7deefcc24fe286abe5140

			
		
0279f0b4-4e82-4b07-9805-a1e13df8f9cd repro KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime (2) 2026/03/07 22:24 2026/03/07 22:24 2026/03/07 22:31 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0

			
		
7171d4d8-42ef-4fd5-a999-5aa18ef5eb74 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ Confident: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime (2) 2026/02/24 21:08 2026/02/24 21:08 2026/02/24 21:11 305c0ec5cd886e2d13738e28e1b2df9b0ec20fc9

			
		
ec112e07-5373-4eb0-b039-94f19981efb8 assessment-kcsan 💥 KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime (2) 2026/01/10 03:13 2026/01/10 03:13 2026/01/10 03:13 7519916073b761ced56a7b15fdeeb4674e8dc125
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Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime ext4 6 19 1008d 1029d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/17 00:18

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime

read to 0xffff88811be1d3f8 of 4 bytes by task 91 on cpu 0:
 atime_needs_update+0x25f/0x3e0 fs/inode.c:-1
 touch_atime+0x4a/0x300 fs/inode.c:2315
 file_accessed include/linux/fs.h:2277 [inline]
 shmem_file_read_iter+0x3ed/0x4b0 mm/shmem.c:3394
 lo_rw_aio+0x6a9/0x760 drivers/block/loop.c:-1
 do_req_filebacked drivers/block/loop.c:-1 [inline]
 loop_handle_cmd drivers/block/loop.c:1921 [inline]
 loop_process_work+0x567/0xac0 drivers/block/loop.c:1956
 loop_rootcg_workfn+0x22/0x30 drivers/block/loop.c:1987
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4d4/0x9a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0x569/0x750 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x221/0x270 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x146/0x330 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

write to 0xffff88811be1d3f8 of 4 bytes by task 362 on cpu 1:
 inode_set_atime_to_ts include/linux/fs.h:1626 [inline]
 inode_update_atime fs/inode.c:2160 [inline]
 inode_update_time fs/inode.c:2224 [inline]
 generic_update_time fs/inode.c:2257 [inline]
 touch_atime+0x1cb/0x300 fs/inode.c:2335
 file_accessed include/linux/fs.h:2277 [inline]
 shmem_file_read_iter+0x3ed/0x4b0 mm/shmem.c:3394
 lo_rw_aio+0x6a9/0x760 drivers/block/loop.c:-1
 do_req_filebacked drivers/block/loop.c:-1 [inline]
 loop_handle_cmd drivers/block/loop.c:1921 [inline]
 loop_process_work+0x567/0xac0 drivers/block/loop.c:1956
 loop_workfn+0x31/0x40 drivers/block/loop.c:1980
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4d4/0x9a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0x569/0x750 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x221/0x270 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x146/0x330 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

value changed: 0x12e15564 -> 0x134d623e

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 362 Comm: kworker/u8:6 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: loop5 loop_workfn
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Crashes (669):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/22 21:59 upstream 1dc18801be29 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/22 08:16 upstream ef0c9f75a195 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/21 19:00 upstream 8cd8cf7a07e5 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/20 14:26 upstream 1a3746ccbb0a 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/19 22:20 upstream 5e2e14749c3d 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/19 15:18 upstream 9ecfb2f7287a 570c59ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/18 23:59 upstream 83f1454877cc a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/18 08:28 upstream e771677c937d b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/17 16:53 upstream 66affa37cfac b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/16 22:35 upstream b1cbabe84ca1 a3998659 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/16 05:44 upstream a87bbc4578fd 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/12 21:28 upstream 1dadb7e7eb5a 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/12 09:48 upstream 2b414a95b8f7 e93da63e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/11 21:15 upstream 9716c086c8e8 d93a6ab6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/10 03:04 upstream 685441a6d3f1 34dab4be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/09 14:02 upstream 2d3090a8aeb5 c36c07f6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/07 08:58 upstream 979c294509f9 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/06 15:13 upstream 8e65320d91cd cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/06 04:17 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/05 22:26 upstream ddd664bbff63 48b6c3fa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/03 17:48 upstream ba3e43a9e601 234057e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/06/01 23:46 upstream e43ffb69e043 1095583b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/27 23:19 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 4c36e7e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/26 07:24 upstream e8c2f9fdadee c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/24 07:00 upstream 4cbfe4502e3d c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/23 21:03 upstream eed108edc117 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/22 18:04 upstream 45255ea1ca09 5f091fcc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/20 20:46 upstream df685633c3db 62fb93a2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/16 10:10 upstream d458a240344c a15a64a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/16 03:08 upstream d458a240344c 81fb92f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/15 01:59 upstream 66182ca873a4 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/13 11:38 upstream 1d5dcaa3bd65 fec2a7ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/12 08:35 upstream 50897c955902 07aeade5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/11 10:05 upstream 5d6919055dec 845acb1c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/10 10:32 upstream 1bfaee9d3351 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/08 18:36 upstream 917719c412c4 b2988c17 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/08 03:04 upstream fcee7d82f27d 5633175a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/07 17:55 upstream 8ab992f815d6 cbf9e0fc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/05 15:05 upstream a293ec25d59d 06e69a27 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/05 02:25 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/03 20:36 upstream f377d0025eb0 a0d91488 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/02 20:45 upstream f1a5e78a55eb a0d91488 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/05/01 03:39 upstream 26fd6bff2c05 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/04/30 14:44 upstream e75a43c7cec4 a7464baf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/04/30 12:36 upstream e75a43c7cec4 a7464baf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/04/30 03:59 upstream 57b8e2d666a3 005438fc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/04/29 14:26 upstream dca922e019dd 7ca9e4d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/04/28 10:56 upstream 3b3bea6d4b9c ce741359 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/04/28 06:04 upstream 3b3bea6d4b9c ce741359 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/04/27 20:59 upstream 254f49634ee1 ce741359 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/03/07 19:50 upstream 4ae12d8bd9a8 5cb44a80 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/02/24 11:31 upstream 7dff99b35460 96b1aa46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2026/01/09 20:34 upstream 372800cb95a3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
2024/02/02 01:16 upstream 5c24e4e9e708 d61103fc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in atime_needs_update / touch_atime
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.