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

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Message-ID: <697a03f6.a00a0220.35f26.0000.GAE@google.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:41:26 -0800
From: syzbot <syzbot+list59ce2b147d38d44785f8@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
To: amir73il@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org, miklos@...redi.hu, 
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: [syzbot] Monthly overlayfs report (Jan 2026)

Hello overlayfs maintainers/developers,

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

During the period, 1 new issues were detected and 0 were fixed.
In total, 6 issues are still open and 34 have already been fixed.

Some of the still happening issues:

Ref Crashes Repro Title
<1> 36      No    possible deadlock in pipe_lock (6)
                  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=603e6f91a1f6c5af8c02
<2> 12      Yes   general protection fault in ovl_iterate
                  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a16fb0cce329a320661c
<3> 4       No    WARNING in end_dirop
                  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=19b2d871b77d222db434

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