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KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/09/14 12:23
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+56d2444ea61a650527b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 185d, last: 6d15h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
94c55a46-7bb5-4c33-87a9-1bc1c731be24 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅  Confident: ✅  KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm (2) 2026/01/15 06:37 2026/01/15 06:37 2026/01/15 07:01 a9d6a79219801d2130df3b1a792c57f0e5428e9f
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm mm 6 5 246d 303d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/09 11:25

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm

write to 0xffff8881049dd608 of 8 bytes by task 5414 on cpu 1:
 __list_add include/linux/list.h:161 [inline]
 list_add include/linux/list.h:177 [inline]
 __percpu_counter_init_many+0x292/0x310 lib/percpu_counter.c:220
 mm_init+0x505/0x680 kernel/fork.c:1127
 mm_alloc+0x80/0xa0 kernel/fork.c:1162
 bprm_mm_init fs/exec.c:261 [inline]
 alloc_bprm+0x20e/0x350 fs/exec.c:1457
 class_bprm_constructor fs/exec.c:1466 [inline]
 kernel_execve+0x6a/0x630 fs/exec.c:1859
 call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x196/0x250 kernel/umh.c:109
 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 0xffff8881049dd100 of 1664 bytes by task 5406 on cpu 0:
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1524 [inline]
 copy_mm+0xe1/0x370 kernel/fork.c:1582
 copy_process+0xe22/0x20d0 kernel/fork.c:2223
 kernel_clone+0x16b/0x5d0 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

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5406 Comm: dhcpcd-run-hook Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
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Crashes (19):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/12 05:03 upstream b29fb8829bff 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2026/02/20 08:02 upstream 8bf22c33e7a1 17d780d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2026/02/05 09:53 upstream f14faaf3a1fb 4936e85c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2026/01/31 04:16 upstream 283073725700 c75a2f6e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2026/01/27 13:55 upstream fcb70a56f4d8 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2026/01/20 02:25 upstream 24d479d26b25 572effc1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2026/01/03 20:47 upstream 805f9a061372 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2026/01/01 09:57 upstream 349bd28a86f2 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/12/25 18:06 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/12/09 20:28 upstream cb015814f8b6 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/12/03 02:24 upstream d61f1cc5db79 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/11/21 08:10 upstream fd95357fd8c6 280ea308 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/11/10 20:53 upstream 4ea7c1717f3f 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/11/10 17:53 upstream e9a6fb0bcdd7 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/11/01 18:15 upstream ba36dd5ee6fd 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/10/27 13:06 upstream dcb6fa37fd7b fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/10/12 20:32 upstream 8765f467912f ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/10/02 23:10 upstream 7f7072574127 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
2025/09/14 12:22 upstream f83a4f2a4d8c e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __percpu_counter_init_many / copy_mm
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.