There's a debug check in io_sq_thread_park() checking if it's the SQPOLL thread itself calling park. KCSAN warns about this, as we should not be reading sqd->thread outside of sqd->lock. Just silence this with data_race(). The pointer isn't used for anything but this debug check. Reported-by: syzbot+2b946a3fd80caf971b21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/io_uring/sqpoll.c b/io_uring/sqpoll.c index b3722e5275e7..3b50dc9586d1 100644 --- a/io_uring/sqpoll.c +++ b/io_uring/sqpoll.c @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ void io_sq_thread_unpark(struct io_sq_data *sqd) void io_sq_thread_park(struct io_sq_data *sqd) __acquires(&sqd->lock) { - WARN_ON_ONCE(sqd->thread == current); + WARN_ON_ONCE(data_race(sqd->thread) == current); atomic_inc(&sqd->park_pending); set_bit(IO_SQ_THREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &sqd->state); -- Jens Axboe