linux-kernel - [syzbot] Monthly kernfs report (Jan 2026)

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Message-ID: <697713d9.050a0220.226181.0017.GAE@google.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:12:25 -0800
From: syzbot <syzbot+listdd92cbcb362478abe3ab@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
To: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, tj@...nel.org
Subject: [syzbot] Monthly kernfs report (Jan 2026)

Hello kernfs maintainers/developers,

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

During the period, 1 new issues were detected and 0 were fixed.
In total, 31 issues are still open and 26 have already been fixed.

Some of the still happening issues:

Ref  Crashes Repro Title
<1>  3519    Yes   possible deadlock in kernfs_iop_getattr
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4bb2305559463e8f6a2a
<2>  574     Yes   WARNING in kernfs_get (5)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2f44671e54488d20f0e6
<3>  545     Yes   WARNING in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns (3)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=93cbdd0ab421adc5275d
<4>  395     No    possible deadlock in lookup_slow (3)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=65459fd3b61877d717a3
<5>  136     No    possible deadlock in kernfs_fop_write_iter (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1cfd86253864f61b533e
<6>  121     Yes   INFO: task hung in fdget_pos
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0ee1ef35cf7e70ce55d7
<7>  100     Yes   INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unshare (9)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=872bccd9a68c6ba47718
<8>  43      Yes   INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_readlink (5)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=23e14ec82f3c8692eaa9
<9>  37      Yes   possible deadlock in kernfs_seq_start
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4c493dcd5a68168a94b2
<10> 32      Yes   INFO: task hung in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6d5664213a6db9a5a72c

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