[syzbot] Monthly kernfs report (Aug 2026)

From: syzbot

Date: Sat Aug 01 2026 - 20:04:51 EST


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, 2 new issues were detected and 0 were fixed.
In total, 27 issues are still open and 30 have already been fixed.
There are also 8 low-priority issues.

Some of the still happening issues:

Ref Crashes Repro Title
<1> 1729 Yes possible deadlock in kernfs_remove
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2d7d0fbb5fb979113ff3
<2> 609 No possible deadlock in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b50eba6bf6cd3f8ba7d0
<3> 146 Yes INFO: task hung in kernfs_dop_revalidate (4)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=da20d108162166514db6
<4> 131 No INFO: task hung in sb_start_write (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b3fba2e269970207b61d
<5> 26 No possible deadlock in __kernfs_remove (3)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1075f6dc93f398c1857e
<6> 12 Yes INFO: rcu detected stall in kernfs_fop_open (7)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=19d01f6082ec61dd45b2
<7> 639 Yes WARNING in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns (3)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=93cbdd0ab421adc5275d
<8> 146 Yes INFO: task hung in fdget_pos
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0ee1ef35cf7e70ce55d7
<9> 72 Yes possible deadlock in kernfs_seq_start
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4c493dcd5a68168a94b2
<10> 44 Yes INFO: task hung in kernfs_remove_by_name_ns (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6d5664213a6db9a5a72c

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