[syzbot] Monthly ext4 report (Apr 2026)

[syzbot]

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, 0 new issues were detected and 2 were fixed.
In total, 49 issues are still open and 175 have already been fixed.

Some of the still happening issues:

Ref Crashes Repro Title
<1> 7355 Yes KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f792df426ff0f5ceb8d1
<2> 6598 Yes WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=76916a45d2294b551fd9
<3> 5264 Yes possible deadlock in ext4_writepages (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=eb5b4ef634a018917f3c
<4> 3018 Yes kernel BUG in ext4_do_writepages
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d1da16f03614058fdc48
<5> 2945 Yes INFO: task hung in sync_inodes_sb (5)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=30476ec1b6dc84471133
<6> 2495 Yes possible deadlock in ext4_destroy_inline_data (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bb2455d02bda0b5701e3
<7> 2178 Yes INFO: task hung in jbd2_journal_commit_transaction (5)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3071bdd0a9953bc0d177
<8> 994 Yes WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fe42a669c87e4a980051
<9> 658 Yes possible deadlock in do_writepages (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=756f498a88797cda9299
<10> 464 Yes INFO: task hung in do_get_write_access (3)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e7c786ece54bad9d1e43

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