Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in rds_tcp_tune

Dmitry Vyukov
2018-02-14T18:59:08Z

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:35:55AM -0500, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
>> On (02/14/18 16:28), Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> > syzbot is probably not seeing this problem. However if you don't add
>> > the Reported-by tag to commit, nor provide syz fix tag, it will
>> > consider it as "open". One consequence of this is that it is still on
>> > our radars. Another consequence is that syzbot will never report bugs
>> > in rds_tcp_tune ever again as it thinks that it's the same known bug,
>> > so no point in bothering anybody.
>>
>> understood, I think I saw this in the original syzbot mail as well,
>> but I was hesitant to actually add the tag because the fix was
>> based on code-inspection only, and I would have felt more comfortable
>> about asserting the Reported-by if I'd done a clear-cut before/after
>> verification.
>
> I think the point is you have to clear it from syzbot to get it to
> even test your patches, even if you are not totally sure your patch
> fixes it?

Sorry, I failed to parse this sentence. Can you please rephrase it?