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KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (10)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/02/18 06:47
Subsystems: serial
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+80594a852f796415b1ae@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 109d, last: 22d
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
57292fce-cbf5-4e1e-bd52-989643f3626a assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (10) 2026/05/24 02:04 2026/05/24 02:04 2026/05/24 02:05 c69befb30ac10e158cc9d1557b508ee3f0eca1de
bb82e7be-a2fc-4d66-a517-7390f5510a98 assessment-kcsan Benign: ✅ Confident: ✅ KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (10) 2026/02/23 15:30 2026/02/23 15:30 2026/02/23 15:40 305c0ec5cd886e2d13738e28e1b2df9b0ec20fc9
Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (7) serial 6 1 670d 670d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/10 06:07
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (9) serial 6 4 294d 348d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/12 00:16
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (5) serial 6 4 996d 1032d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/20 07:37
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (6) serial 6 17 707d 864d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/04 08:07
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (8) serial 6 7 428d 511d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/31 03:59
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (4) serial 6 2 1340d 1345d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/11/10 02:34
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (3) serial 6 1 1429d 1429d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/08/13 02:09
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char (2) serial 6 2 1519d 1527d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/15 01:17
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char serial 6 1 1713d 1713d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/11/01 13:40

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

write to 0xffff88811ac11194 of 1 bytes by task 17460 on cpu 0:
 __stop_tty+0x36/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:744
 n_tty_ioctl_helper+0x2d1/0x370 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:951
 n_tty_ioctl+0x101/0x220 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2496
 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/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff88811ac11194 of 1 bytes by task 3479 on cpu 1:
 n_tty_receive_char+0x3d/0x6a0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1403
 n_tty_receive_buf_standard+0x552/0x3e60 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1582
 __receive_buf drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1616 [inline]
 n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x7fe/0xc00 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:394
 tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x59/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:37
 receive_buf drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:452 [inline]
 flush_to_ldisc+0x148/0x340 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:502
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4f0/0x9c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0x58a/0x780 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x22a/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x146/0x330 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

value changed: 0x00 -> 0x01

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3479 Comm: kworker/u8:8 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/15 23:29 upstream d458a240344c 81fb92f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char
2026/04/09 03:44 upstream 7f87a5ea75f0 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char
2026/02/18 06:47 upstream 2961f841b025 39751c21 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / n_tty_receive_char
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.