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KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_ioctl_helper / n_tty_receive_char (4)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/05/23 01:45
Subsystems: serial
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Reported-by: syzbot+36e3a86ed63217c75744@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 20h30m, last: 20h30m
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_ioctl_helper / n_tty_receive_char serial 1 994d 994d 0/28 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/10/07 05:26
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_ioctl_helper / n_tty_receive_char (2) serial 1 446d 446d 0/28 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/04/07 12:21
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_ioctl_helper / n_tty_receive_char (3) serial 2 387d 400d 0/28 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/05 18:36

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_ioctl_helper / n_tty_receive_char

write to 0xffff8881222c59bd of 1 bytes by task 5585 on cpu 1:
 n_tty_ioctl_helper+0x1da/0x210 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:954
 n_tty_ioctl+0x101/0x200 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2509
 tty_ioctl+0x845/0xb80 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2811
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xcb/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:892
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x43/0x50 fs/ioctl.c:892
 x64_sys_call+0x19a8/0x2fb0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xd0/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff8881222c59bd of 1 bytes by task 4386 on cpu 0:
 n_tty_receive_char+0x53/0x6a0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1411
 n_tty_receive_buf_standard+0x473/0x2f10 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1590
 __receive_buf drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1624 [inline]
 n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x805/0xbe0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1723
 n_tty_receive_buf2+0x33/0x40 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1769
 tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x63/0xf0 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:387
 tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x59/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:37
 receive_buf drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:445 [inline]
 flush_to_ldisc+0x1b5/0x410 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:495
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4cb/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x486/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

value changed: 0x00 -> 0x01

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 4386 Comm: kworker/u8:59 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-00099-g94305e83eccb #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/05/23 01:45 upstream 94305e83eccb fa44301a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_ioctl_helper / n_tty_receive_char
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.