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KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (16)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/12/27 04:05
Subsystems: serial
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Reported-by: syzbot+9c3ef9da49a12d7bbc27@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10d, last: 10d
Similar bugs (15)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write serial 6 1 1636d 1636d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/08/19 13:20
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (6) serial 6 1 1329d 1329d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/06/22 11:40
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (8) serial 6 4 989d 1005d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/28 07:29
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (9) serial 6 3 898d 929d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/26 21:27
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (2) serial 6 1 1553d 1553d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/11/09 20:04
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (4) serial 6 1 1426d 1426d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/03/17 12:14
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (3) serial 6 1 1513d 1513d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/12/20 07:00
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (13) serial 6 19 478d 657d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/19 22:07
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (5) serial 6 1 1382d 1382d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/04/30 10:57
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (10) serial 6 1 850d 850d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/14 11:29
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (11) serial 6 3 807d 809d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/26 18:07
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (14) serial 6 1 440d 440d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/18 17:29
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (12) serial 6 7 694d 755d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/18 19:09
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (7) serial 6 1 1188d 1188d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/11/10 14:49
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write (15) serial 6 12 148d 381d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/05 23:38

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

write to 0xffff88810b76e9bc of 1 bytes by task 15513 on cpu 1:
 __stop_tty+0x36/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:744
 n_tty_ioctl_helper+0x1e9/0x210 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:951
 n_tty_ioctl+0x101/0x230 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2496
 tty_ioctl+0x83f/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+0x14b0/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xca/0x2b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff88810b76e9bc of 1 bytes by task 63 on cpu 0:
 pty_write+0x24/0x90 drivers/tty/pty.c:113
 tty_put_char+0x8f/0xc0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3154
 do_output_char+0x4de/0x500 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:459
 __process_echoes+0x20d/0x6b0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:697
 flush_echoes drivers/tty/n_tty.c:785 [inline]
 __receive_buf drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1618 [inline]
 n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x918/0xc10 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:3257 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4ce/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
 worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x489/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x149/0x290 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

value changed: 0x00 -> 0x01

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 63 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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
2025/12/27 04:04 upstream 3f0e9c8cefa9 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __stop_tty / pty_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.