KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/05/09 01:09
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+e5a59428bbf2722641f7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 160d, last: 4d20h
▶ ▼ ✨ AI Jobs (3)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
c92eecce repro-c Reproduced: ✅ ❓ KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow 2026/10/14 11:59 2026/10/14 12:00 2026/10/14 12:38 7321cd29
7df98d0f assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow 2026/05/21 14:10 2026/05/21 14:10 2026/05/21 14:30 d5742584
6643669e assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ ❓ KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow 2026/05/09 07:24 2026/05/09 07:24 2026/05/09 07:27 29233ece
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/10/14 13:53 39m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 4056b3c9d3c92ea45955641dbafeb9b960e146ef no crash job log log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow

write to 0xffffffff895fa508 of 320 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
 timekeeping_update_from_shadow+0x448/0x480 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:866
 __timekeeping_advance+0xb36/0xcf0 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2663
 timekeeping_advance kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2671 [inline]
 update_wall_time+0x21/0x50 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2681
 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:2074 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1f8/0x510 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2131
 hrtimer_interrupt+0x27b/0x860 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2250
 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
 __preempt_count_dec_and_test arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:123 [inline]
 __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:211 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1a/0x30 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:221
 spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:425 [inline]
 __uart_port_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/serial_core.h:622 [inline]
 univ8250_console_device_unlock+0x36/0x40 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:420
 nbcon_emit_one kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1165 [inline]
 nbcon_kthread_func+0x595/0x690 kernel/printk/nbcon.c:1271
 kthread+0x223/0x270 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

read to 0xffffffff895fa528 of 8 bytes by task 2986 on cpu 0:
 timekeeping_cycles_to_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:477 [inline]
 timekeeping_get_ns kernel/time/timekeeping.c:482 [inline]
 ktime_get_ts64+0x155/0x350 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:1147
 ep_timeout_to_timespec fs/eventpoll.c:2190 [inline]
 __do_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2838 [inline]
 __se_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2832 [inline]
 __x64_sys_epoll_wait+0xd9/0x190 fs/eventpoll.c:2832
 x64_sys_call+0x1ce9/0x2550 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:233
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x112/0x360 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x0033a4a98bec1998 -> 0x0034d5d68c4ae124

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2986 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(lazy) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
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Crashes (19):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/11 04:24 upstream a5ebb76233b7 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/10/07 22:03 upstream 602042bf29f6 6520ecdb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/10/03 16:55 upstream e767a4ea70a3 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/10/02 20:52 upstream 5e0f8396d480 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/10/02 06:08 upstream ce1e0223d8ad 6d32eb1f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/09/19 10:54 upstream 17e7b8eacf4c 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/08/31 03:17 upstream a23cbb05744b 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/08/12 17:12 upstream 3d6d817622b0 f8d35649 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/07/26 03:43 upstream 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/07/25 19:40 upstream 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/22 05:06 upstream 8cd8cf7a07e5 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/21 07:43 upstream 390d73adf896 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/16 00:36 upstream 0e0611827f33 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/10 07:50 upstream 685441a6d3f1 34dab4be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/09 14:45 upstream 2d3090a8aeb5 c36c07f6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/08 02:58 upstream 33d8d8ec31b5 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/06/06 11:52 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/05/28 20:02 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 681715f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
2026/05/09 01:09 upstream 917719c412c4 b2988c17 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in ktime_get_ts64 / timekeeping_update_from_shadow
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.