In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock in f2fs_record_stop_reason() syzbot reports deadlock issue of f2fs as below: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.12.0-rc3-syzkaller-00087-gc964ced77262 #0 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ kswapd0/79 is trying to acquire lock: ffff888011824088 (&sbi->sb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: f2fs_down_write fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2199 [inline] ffff888011824088 (&sbi->sb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: f2fs_record_stop_reason+0x52/0x1d0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4068 but task is already holding lock: ffff88804bd92610 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: f2fs_evict_inode+0x662/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:842 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}: lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825 percpu_down_re…