Re: [Syzkaller & bisect] There is BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in xfs_extent_free_diff_items in v6.4-rc3

Bagas Sanjaya
2023-05-23T06:08:41Z

On 5/23/23 00:05, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> Darrick, sorry for the trouble. Bagas recently out of the blue started
> to help with adding regressions to the tracking. That's great, but OTOH
> it means that it's likely time to write a few things up that are obvious
> to some of us and myself.
>
> Bagas, please for the foreseeable future don't add regressions found by
> syzkaller to the regression tracking, unless some well known developer
> actually looked into the issue and indicated that it's something that
> needs to be fixed.
>
> Syzbot is great. But it occasionally does odd things or goes of the
> rails. And in can easily find problems that didn't happen in an earlier
> version, but are unlikely to be encountered by users in practice (aka
> "in the wild"). And we normally don't consider those regressions that
> needs to be fixed.
>

Oops, at the moment I didn't know how to distinguish true regressions
and issues found by the bot, so I thought that both are regressions.

Thanks for the tip!

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