[syzbot] Monthly serial report (Oct 2025)

[syzbot] Monthly serial report (Oct 2025)

[syzbot]

Hello serial maintainers/developers,

This is a 31-day syzbot report for the serial subsystem.
All related reports/information can be found at:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream/s/serial

During the period, 1 new issues were detected and 0 were fixed.
In total, 19 issues are still open and 45 have already been fixed.

Some of the still happening issues:

Ref  Crashes Repro Title
<1>  2490    Yes   possible deadlock in console_lock_spinning_enable (5)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=622acb507894a48b2ce9
<2>  1829    Yes   KMSAN: uninit-value in n_tty_receive_buf_standard
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=559c7fe4b8bac56d38c2
<3>  908     Yes   BUG: soft lockup in tx
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5e87db90e68fbc4707c6
<4>  223     Yes   INFO: task can't die in show_free_areas
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8f41dccfb6c03cc36fd6
<5>  221     Yes   KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2a81fdd5c6ddffee3894
<6>  188     Yes   KMSAN: uninit-value in n_tty_receive_buf_closing (3)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dd514b5f0cf048aec256
<7>  115     Yes   possible deadlock in tty_buffer_flush (3)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=52cf91760dcb1dac6376
<8>  36      No    KMSAN: uninit-value in n_tty_lookahead_flow_ctrl (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=290abdcd4f509377a0eb
<9>  31      No    possible deadlock in kbd_event
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=781c8bb5e4d62cc883d3
<10> 18      Yes   INFO: rcu detected stall in console_callback
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=32af18ae7b894a681f2d

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