linux-kernel - [syzbot] Monthly ext4 report (Jan 2026)

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Message-ID: <697ca591.a70a0220.6f39b.0241.GAE@google.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:35:29 -0800
From: syzbot <syzbot+list9895050aa50b4c96b774@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: [syzbot] Monthly ext4 report (Jan 2026)

Hello ext4 maintainers/developers,

This is a 31-day syzbot report for the ext4 subsystem.
All related reports/information can be found at:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream/s/ext4

During the period, 2 new issues were detected and 0 were fixed.
In total, 50 issues are still open and 170 have already been fixed.

Some of the still happening issues:

Ref  Crashes Repro Title
<1>  6265    Yes   KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f792df426ff0f5ceb8d1
<2>  4238    Yes   WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=76916a45d2294b551fd9
<3>  3407    Yes   possible deadlock in ext4_writepages (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=eb5b4ef634a018917f3c
<4>  2927    Yes   kernel BUG in ext4_do_writepages
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d1da16f03614058fdc48
<5>  2160    Yes   INFO: task hung in jbd2_journal_commit_transaction (5)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3071bdd0a9953bc0d177
<6>  1014    Yes   possible deadlock in ext4_destroy_inline_data (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bb2455d02bda0b5701e3
<7>  993     Yes   WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fe42a669c87e4a980051
<8>  497     Yes   possible deadlock in do_writepages (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=756f498a88797cda9299
<9>  462     Yes   INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access (3)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e7c786ece54bad9d1e43
<10> 273     Yes   kernel BUG in ext4_mb_use_inode_pa (2)
                   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d79019213609e7056a19

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