On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 5:29 PM Fabien Sirjean via ceph-users
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are encountering a reproducible issue with the CephFS kernel client
> on Ubuntu 24.04 and would appreciate your feedback.
>
> Context:
> We are preparing an updated Ubuntu 24.04 image for our scientific users.
> With kernel |6.17.0-14-generic|, the CephFS mount succeeds and the
> filesystem is visible via |df -h|, but any attempt to access the
> directory contents (e.g. |ls|) immediately triggers a kernel crash.
>
>  From userland, the process is simply killed:
>
> |# ls /net/serdon/illdata Killed|
>
> The mount appears healthy and the filesystem is correctly reported:
>
> |# mount | grep ceph 192.168.170.61,192.168.170.69,192.168.170.70:/ on
> /net/serdon/illdata type ceph (rw,relatime,name=visa,acl) # df -h | grep
> serdon 192.168.170.61,192.168.170.69,192.168.170.70:/ 4.1P 2.0P 2.1P 49%
> /net/serdon/illdata|
>
> However, any access to the mount point triggers a kernel NULL pointer
> dereference in the Ceph module:
>
> |BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 RIP:
> strcmp+0x10/0x40 Call Trace: ceph_mds_auth_match ceph_mds_check_access
> ceph_open|
>
> Environment:
>
> |Linux 6.17.0-14-generic #14~24.04.1-Ubuntu CephFS mounted via kernel
> client (mount -t ceph)|
>
> The issue is fully reproducible: any access to the mount point causes
> the same kernel crash.
>
> Full stack trace:
> https://pastebin.com/ZgQHpN0q <https://pastebin.com/ZgQHpN0q>
>
> Questions:
> - Is this a known issue with the CephFS kernel client on Linux 6.17?

Hi Fabien,

Yes, it has just been fixed:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ceph?id=7987cce375ac8ce98e170a77aa2399f2cf6eb99f

> - Does this look like an upstream CephFS bug, or something specific to
> the Ubuntu 6.17 kernel?

It's an upstream bug; the fix should be trivial to backport to any
Ubuntu kernel that is affected.

Thanks,

                Ilya
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