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KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write (9)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/01/21 17:09
Subsystems: serial
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Reported-by: syzbot+74ebdb1d6f91a459a132@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 30d, last: 21h13m
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write (2) serial 6 36 1292d 1630d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/09/11 21:39
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write (4) serial 6 5 1052d 1143d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/10 10:49
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write (6) serial 6 6 542d 618d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/30 21:50
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write serial 6 1 2041d 2041d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/08/23 22:27
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write (8) serial 6 1 134d 134d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/04 09:28
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write (7) serial 6 13 191d 456d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/08 13:05
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write (5) serial 6 41 662d 804d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/03 08:33
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write (3) serial 6 5 1206d 1249d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/12/07 10:52

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write

write to 0xffffc9001426d020 of 8 bytes by task 6428 on cpu 0:
 process_echoes drivers/tty/n_tty.c:766 [inline]
 n_tty_write+0x1d2/0xc20 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2352
 iterate_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1006 [inline]
 file_tty_write+0x378/0x690 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1081
 tty_write+0x25/0x30 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1102
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x5a6/0x9f0 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0xdc/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:740
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:751 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:748 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:748
 x64_sys_call+0x27e1/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 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 0xffffc9001426d020 of 8 bytes by task 1639 on cpu 1:
 flush_echoes drivers/tty/n_tty.c:780 [inline]
 __receive_buf drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1618 [inline]
 n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x85e/0xc10 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1715
 n_tty_receive_buf2+0x33/0x40 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1759
 tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x66/0xf0 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+0x148/0x340 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:495
 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: 0x000000000000000a -> 0x0000000000000010

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1639 Comm: kworker/u8:7 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
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Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/19 22:45 upstream 2b7a25df823d c8d8c52d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write
2026/01/30 03:20 upstream 4d310797262f bfa73b7b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write
2026/01/27 18:23 upstream fcb70a56f4d8 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write
2026/01/21 17:08 upstream 6c790212c588 8fc37797 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_buf_common / n_tty_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.