Re: [syzbot] [xfs?] INFO: task hung in __fdget_pos (4)

Dave Chinner
2023-09-04T08:55:54Z

On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 10:23:33AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > Which is pretty much the case for all filesystem bug reports from
>
> I think we should at least consider the option of reducing the number of
> filesystems syzbot tests. Filesystems that are orphaned or that have no
> active maintainers for a long period of time just produce noise.

I wish you good luck in convincing the syzbot maintainers that
testing obsolete, unmaintained and/or deprecated code should be
outside the scope of what syzbot exercises...

> Slapping tags such as [ntfs3?] or [reiserfs?] really don't help to
> reduce the noise.

Yup - they can't be trusted to be correct, so it does nothing to
reduce the noise. There's been two false XFS categorisations
in just the last half a day....

-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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