Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm: Two small fixes for recent syzbot reports

Dmitry Vyukov
2020-04-09T12:55:57Z

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 2:49 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 21:40:08 -0400 Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > The two patches should fix below syzbot reports:
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in kernel_get_mempolicy
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0000000000002b25f105a2a3434d@google.com/
> >
> > WARNING: bad unlock balance in __get_user_pages_remote
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/00000000000005c65d05a2b90e70@google.com/
>
> (Is there an email address for the syzbot operators?)
>
> sysbot does test linux-next, yet these patches sat in linux-next for a
> month without a peep, but all hell broke loose when they hit Linus's
> tree. How could this have happened?

The same thing:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/phowYdNXHck/qU1P0TsjBAAJ

linux-next is boot-broken for more than a month and bugs are piling
onto bugs, I've seen at least 3 different ones.
syzbot can't get any working linux-next build for testing for a very
long time now.