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: 111d, last: 5d21h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
0cc79473 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 d168f260
e59ce648 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 9c2d0995

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

write to 0xffffffff86d4fb88 of 56 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
 update_fast_timekeeper+0x38/0x70 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:482
 timekeeping_update_from_shadow+0x3ab/0x440 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:818
 __timekeeping_advance+0xa68/0xc10 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2614
 timekeeping_advance kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2622 [inline]
 update_wall_time+0x21/0x50 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2632
 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+0x88/0x380 kernel/time/tick-sched.c:310
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2032 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1f8/0x510 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2096
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x257/0x810 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2215
 local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1051 [inline]
 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5f/0x1c0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1068
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
 native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:48 [inline]
 pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:63
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:768
 default_idle_call+0x3b/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x183/0x2d0 kernel/sched/idle.c:355
 cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x30 kernel/sched/idle.c:454
 start_secondary+0x95/0xa0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x157

read to 0xffffffff86d4fba8 of 8 bytes by task 10199 on cpu 0:
 timekeeping_cycles_to_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:450 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:455 [inline]
 __ktime_get_fast_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:503 [inline]
 ktime_get_mono_fast_ns+0xdf/0x1a0 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:543
 ____bpf_ktime_get_ns kernel/bpf/helpers.c:181 [inline]
 bpf_ktime_get_ns+0xe/0x20 kernel/bpf/helpers.c:178
 bpf_prog_b7a80a133741bc4e+0x46/0x4c
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1454 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:724 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:731 [inline]
 bpf_test_run+0x298/0x620 net/bpf/test_run.c:422
 bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0xe67/0x11b0 net/bpf/test_run.c:1225
 bpf_prog_test_run+0x208/0x340 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4859
 __sys_bpf+0x8da/0xc30 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6436
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6537 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6534 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bpf+0x69/0x80 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6534
 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: 0x002bc8984bd4c2c0 -> 0x002c612ecc042686

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 10199 Comm: syz.0.2082 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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Crashes (18):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/09 19:16 upstream 06cf61899d64 5d63f80b .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
2026/08/07 06:08 upstream f9a2394a2348 c38879ea .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
2026/07/17 07:49 upstream fce2dfa773ce 7f27c57a .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
2026/07/07 15:15 upstream 0e35b9b6ec0f 76cdc0c0 .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
2026/06/29 16:29 upstream dc59e4fea9d8 6a0c72dc .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
2026/06/27 12:58 upstream 5a66900afbd6 fb92f11c .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
2026/06/26 00:09 upstream a142da0b2d32 7ff32d8b .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
2026/06/21 04:27 upstream 1a3746ccbb0a 43bfcdb0 .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
2026/06/17 17:31 upstream 66affa37cfac b62b3ded .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
2026/06/17 17:30 upstream 66affa37cfac b62b3ded .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
2026/06/14 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.