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SubjectRe: [syzbot] general protection fault in list_lru_add
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 3:47 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

It is not easy to reproduce. I'm also trying to reproduce locally.

#syz test: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
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