[syzbot] Monthly kernfs report (Jan 2026)

From: syzbot

Date: Mon Jan 26 2026 - 02:12:42 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, 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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