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KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios (5)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/02/01 03:27
Subsystems: serial
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Reported-by: syzbot+0479f67e520e4910d370@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 18d, last: 2h50m
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios (4) serial 6 1 685d 685d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/09 07:47
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios (3) serial 6 1 759d 759d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/26 02:18
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios (2) serial 6 1 935d 935d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/02 17:23
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios serial 6 52 1117d 1288d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/08 10:34

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios

write to 0xffff88814aa6b108 of 44 bytes by task 9329 on cpu 1:
 tty_set_termios+0xc0/0x910 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:335
 set_termios+0x373/0x4f0 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:516
 tty_mode_ioctl+0x37f/0x5b0 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:-1
 ppp_synctty_ioctl+0x13f/0x2b0 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_synctty.c:315
 tty_ioctl+0x83e/0xb80 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2801
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xce/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x43/0x50 fs/ioctl.c:583
 x64_sys_call+0x1563/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
 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

read to 0xffff88814aa6b121 of 1 bytes by task 9200 on cpu 0:
 n_tty_is_char_flow_ctrl drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1196 [inline]
 n_tty_receive_char_flow_ctrl drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1217 [inline]
 n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl+0x126/0x300 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1492
 tty_port_default_lookahead_buf+0x91/0xc0 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:59
 lookahead_bufs drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:428 [inline]
 flush_to_ldisc+0x288/0x340 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:498
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3275 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4de/0x9e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3358
 worker_thread+0x581/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3439
 kthread+0x22a/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x150/0x360 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

value changed: 0x11 -> 0x3a

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9200 Comm: kworker/u8:20 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
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smc: removing ib device syz0

Crashes (16):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/19 03:29 upstream 23b0f90ba871 77d4d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/17 12:20 upstream 970296997869 e439b951 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/15 21:35 upstream ca4ee40bf13d 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/15 02:38 upstream 3e48a11675c5 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/14 05:10 upstream cee73b1e840c 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/12 19:01 upstream 37a93dd5c49b 504cb1bf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/11 09:34 upstream dc855b77719f 441e25b7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/10 09:40 upstream 8a5203c630c6 4ab09a02 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/09 21:35 upstream 05f7e89ab973 df949cd9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/09 01:21 upstream e98f34af6116 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/08 12:31 upstream e7aa57247700 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/07 18:55 upstream 2687c848e578 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/07 16:46 upstream 2687c848e578 f20fc9f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/06 01:27 upstream 8fdb05de0e2d f03c4191 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/01 22:22 upstream 9f2693489ef8 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
2026/02/01 03:26 upstream ad9a728a3388 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl / tty_set_termios
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.