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KCSAN: data-race in __d_instantiate / path_lookupat (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/06/23 17:59
Subsystems: fs
Labels: race:benign
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Reported-by: syzbot+c900d69656aab3702986@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d06h, last: 1d06h
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
d4007c08-f9eb-41c0-af64-e513199170df assessment-security 🏃 KCSAN: data-race in __d_instantiate / path_lookupat (2) 2026/06/25 00:01 2026/06/25 00:01 2e5297c5126f27e51eeef9157f2111c5beb11e4f

			
		
04bc1d99-3827-4ddd-8fcb-66df0358bf36 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in __d_instantiate / path_lookupat (2) 2026/06/23 17:59 2026/06/23 17:59 2026/06/23 18:26 e30e5c89d137d970da183ffdc275130a55fdd832

			
		
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __d_instantiate / path_lookupat fs 6 4 123d 192d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/18 04:16

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __d_instantiate / path_lookupat

read-write to 0xffff888100414780 of 4 bytes by task 3289 on cpu 0:
 fsnotify_update_flags include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h:-1 [inline]
 __d_instantiate+0x2a8/0x390 fs/dcache.c:2149
 d_make_persistent+0x72/0x110 fs/dcache.c:2973
 shmem_symlink+0x386/0x3a0 mm/shmem.c:4068
 vfs_symlink+0xfd/0x220 fs/namei.c:5656
 filename_symlinkat+0xe8/0x2b0 fs/namei.c:5681
 __do_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:5708 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlink+0x42/0x1b0 fs/namei.c:5704
 __x64_sys_symlink+0x31/0x40 fs/namei.c:5704
 x64_sys_call+0x2465/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:89
 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

read to 0xffff888100414780 of 4 bytes by task 2979 on cpu 1:
 d_managed include/linux/dcache.h:433 [inline]
 step_into fs/namei.c:2140 [inline]
 walk_component fs/namei.c:2288 [inline]
 lookup_last fs/namei.c:2789 [inline]
 path_lookupat+0x19b/0x4c0 fs/namei.c:2813
 filename_lookup+0x18f/0x390 fs/namei.c:2842
 do_readlinkat+0x74/0x2f0 fs/stat.c:571
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:605 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:602 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x47/0x60 fs/stat.c:602
 x64_sys_call+0x2b51/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:90
 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: 0x00000080 -> 0x08300080

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2979 Comm: udevd Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/23 17:59 upstream 502d801f0ab0 4b1d8f01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __d_instantiate / path_lookupat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.