Re: [PATCH 0/15 v2] loop: Fix oops and possible deadlocks

Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-16T12:04:08Z

On 16/10/18 13:36, Jan Kara wrote:
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> 2) For the oops (use-after-free) issue I was not able to reproduce that in
> my test KVM in couple hours. The race window is rather narrow and syzbot
> with KASAN and everything hit it only 11 times. So I'm not sure how useful
> that test is. Any opinions?

Personally I think a test that has varying outcomes depending on how
often you run it (just to hit the race) isn't really suitable for a
suite like blktests.

But that's my personal opinion only, Omar what's your opinion here?

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