Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:47:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [syzbot] general protection fault in list_lru_add |
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:45 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:41 PM syzbot > <syzbot+f8c45ccc7d5d45fc5965@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote: > > > > syzbot has tested the proposed patch and the reproducer did not trigger any issue: > > Heh, well that's unfortunate. > > I think the issue is that it triggered a new BUG() that didn't match > the previous NULL pointer dereference, so it thinks things are > "fixed".
Oh, no, it's because it used the truncated patch that didn't do anything:
> patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=1208043d700000
and maybe (due to the racy nature) nothing actually happened.
Linus
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