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KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (11)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/07/06 00:58
Subsystems: serial
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Reported-by: syzbot+b486e50e6efb44751c37@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d14h, last: 7d14h
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (4) serial 6 1 819d 819d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/20 17:17
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (10) serial 6 7 84d 126d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/15 15:33
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (6) serial 6 28 451d 584d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/23 04:54
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (9) serial 6 3 183d 217d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/07 19:30
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (3) serial 6 5 878d 919d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/03/30 21:01
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (7) serial 6 6 311d 406d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/10 09:15
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (2) serial 6 13 967d 1108d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/12/30 17:18
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (8) serial 6 1 268d 268d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/22 07:31
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write serial 6 25 1143d 1407d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/30 23:55
upstream KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write (5) serial 6 3 744d 769d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/03 17:30

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

write to 0xffffc9000a44d028 of 8 bytes by task 8129 on cpu 0:
 commit_echoes drivers/tty/n_tty.c:742 [inline]
 n_tty_receive_char+0x437/0x6a0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1421
 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+0x141/0x360 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:495
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4cb/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321
 worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3402
 kthread+0x489/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0xda/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffffc9000a44d028 of 8 bytes by task 20639 on cpu 1:
 process_echoes drivers/tty/n_tty.c:768 [inline]
 n_tty_write+0x14f/0xb10 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2363
 iterate_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1006 [inline]
 file_tty_write+0x38c/0x670 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1081
 tty_write+0x25/0x30 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1102
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x4a0/0x8e0 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0xda/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:738
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:746 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x40/0x50 fs/read_write.c:746
 x64_sys_call+0x2cdd/0x2fb0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xd2/0x200 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x0000000000000004 -> 0x0000000000000008

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 20639 Comm: syz.0.5323 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller-00319-g05df91921da6 #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/06 00:58 upstream 05df91921da6 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in n_tty_receive_char / n_tty_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.