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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+05c0f12a4d43d656817e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [io-uring?] general protection fault in io_sqe_buffer_register
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:38:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ede47bf-8612-47f7-9851-13c6622ecf44@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANp29Y4dWOk3Hk2NJbQSnSE-XoQfCv5vM1FM_FWr5Xbv+d3yFg@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/4/24 10:34 AM, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 6:14 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/4/24 10:11 AM, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
>>> Hi Jens,
>>>
>>> Just in case:
>>>
>>> Syzbot reported this commit as the result of the cause (bug origin)
>>> bisection, not as the commit after which the problem was gone. So
>>> (unless it actually is a fixing commit) reporting it back via #syz fix
>>> is not correct.
>>
>> The commit got fixed, and hence there isn't a good way to convey this
>> to syzbot as far as I can tell. Just marking the updated one as the
>> fixer seems to be the best/closest option.
>>
>> Other option is to mark it as invalid, but that also doesn't seem right.
>>
>> I'm fine doing whatever to get issues like this closed, but it's not
>> an uncommon thing to have a buggy commit that's not upstream yet be
>> fixed up and hence not have the issue anymore.
> 
> I see. You are right, thanks for the explanation!
> 
> There's indeed no better way to convey this at the moment. I've filed
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/issues/5567 to discuss what can be
> done.

Thanks! Guess I wasn't totally blind, I did check to see if there was
a better way to do this currently and didn't spot it.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2024-12-04 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-01 20:07 [syzbot] [io-uring?] general protection fault in io_sqe_buffer_register syzbot
2024-11-01 20:29 ` Jens Axboe
2024-11-01 20:54   ` syzbot
2024-11-03  8:00 ` syzbot
2024-12-04 17:07   ` Jens Axboe
2024-12-04 17:11     ` Aleksandr Nogikh
2024-12-04 17:14       ` Jens Axboe
2024-12-04 17:34         ` Aleksandr Nogikh
2024-12-04 17:38           ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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