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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Khazhy Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>,
	syzbot <syzbot+18996170f8096c6174d0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [usb?] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in read_descriptors (3)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 08:34:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023080309-economist-each-6f51@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58e8a28b-ab24-4449-9072-e0fb7ed39196@rowland.harvard.edu>

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 04:00:28PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Greg:
> 
> I'm putting together a series of three patches to deal with this 
> problem.  The first two do some preparatory work, and the bug found by 
> syzbot actually gets fixed by the third patch.
> 
> In view of this, how should I tag the patches?  They should all get into 
> the -stable trees eventually, but only the third one really deserves a 
> Fixes: or Reported-by: tag.
> 
> What's your advice?

Sounds correct, just tag the last one with a reported-by:  Same for the
fixes: tag, we deal with this in the stable tree a lot, and can figure
out the dependancies like this for patch series.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-03  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-20  2:55 [syzbot] [usb?] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in read_descriptors (3) syzbot
2023-07-21 18:10 ` Khazhy Kumykov
2023-07-21 18:23   ` Khazhy Kumykov
2023-07-21 18:56     ` Alan Stern
2023-07-21 22:40       ` Khazhy Kumykov
2023-07-23  2:01         ` Alan Stern
2023-07-23  2:21           ` syzbot
2023-07-25 19:26             ` Alan Stern
2023-07-25 20:42               ` Khazhy Kumykov
2023-07-25 21:30                 ` Alan Stern
2023-07-25 21:46                   ` Khazhy Kumykov
2023-07-26  4:00                     ` Greg KH
2023-08-02 20:00                       ` Alan Stern
2023-08-03  6:34                         ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-07-25 20:54               ` syzbot

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