[syzbot] Monthly overlayfs report (Jan 2026)

From: syzbot

Date: Wed Jan 28 2026 - 07:41:34 EST


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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