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KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (14)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/07/04 23:52
Subsystems: serial
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Reported-by: syzbot+cab57903ecc2a256de4f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 107d, last: 27d
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (9) serial 6 4 826d 872d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/21 10:01
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write serial 6 3 1891d 1932d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/20 17:41
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (3) serial 6 7 1604d 1669d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/07/04 10:36
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (11) serial 6 13 556d 635d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/16 20:06
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (10) serial 6 10 680d 680d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/14 04:02
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (4) serial 6 1 1561d 1561d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/08/15 21:06
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (6) serial 6 41 1112d 1408d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/11/07 20:53
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (2) serial 6 4 1758d 1778d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/01/30 23:25
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (7) serial 6 2 1057d 1057d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/13 20:09
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (5) serial 6 1 1481d 1481d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/11/04 02:47
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (12) serial 6 2 490d 496d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/07/22 07:47
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (13) serial 6 4 257d 321d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/01 20:34
upstream KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write (8) serial 6 3 920d 973d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/19 15:46

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

write to 0xffffc90001177280 of 8 bytes by task 37 on cpu 0:
 __process_echoes+0x63e/0x6b0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:730
 flush_echoes drivers/tty/n_tty.c:791 [inline]
 __receive_buf drivers/tty/n_tty.c:1626 [inline]
 n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x8e4/0xbe0 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+0x145/0x340 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:495
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x4cb/0x9d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x582/0x770 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x489/0x510 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x11f/0x1b0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

read to 0xffffc90001177280 of 8 bytes by task 6714 on cpu 1:
 process_echoes drivers/tty/n_tty.c:768 [inline]
 n_tty_write+0x161/0xb50 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2363
 iterate_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1006 [inline]
 file_tty_write+0x370/0x690 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1081
 tty_write+0x25/0x30 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1102
 do_iter_readv_writev+0x499/0x540 fs/read_write.c:-1
 vfs_writev+0x2df/0x8b0 fs/read_write.c:1057
 do_writev+0xe7/0x210 fs/read_write.c:1103
 __do_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1171 [inline]
 __se_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1168 [inline]
 __x64_sys_writev+0x45/0x50 fs/read_write.c:1168
 x64_sys_call+0x1e9a/0x2ff0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:21
 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: 0x0000000000000000 -> 0x0000000000000007

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6714 Comm: syz.3.1171 Tainted: G        W           syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
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Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/22 19:15 upstream 07e27ad16399 0ac7291c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write
2025/09/18 21:28 upstream 8b789f2b7602 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write
2025/09/18 03:23 upstream d4b779985a6c e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write
2025/09/03 16:39 upstream e6b9dce0aeeb 96a211bc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write
2025/08/30 13:11 upstream 11e7861d680c 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write
2025/08/16 15:49 upstream dfd4b508c8c6 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write
2025/07/04 23:51 upstream 4c06e63b9203 d869b261 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce KCSAN: data-race in __process_echoes / n_tty_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.