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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc: Wenchao Hao <haowenchao@huawei.com>,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, axboe@kernel.dk,
	jejb@linux.ibm.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com,
	syzbot+f08c77040fa163a75a46@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	linfeilong@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: call device_del() if device_add_disk() fails
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:24:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220331162416.GI12805@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1787706.atdPhlSkOF@leap>

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 06:14:27PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On gioved? 31 marzo 2022 15:42:10 CEST Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Wenchao Hao, what you're saying makes a lot of sense but it raises a lot
> > of questions in turn.
> > 
> > Fabio, did you test your patch?
> 
> Yes, I did, Dan. I tested it the usual way with the "#syz test:" command.
> Obviously I have not the hardware to test code on it.
> 

Yeah.  What a nightmare.  You posted a link to the first test.  It said
passed but definitely introduced some use after frees but how was anyone
supposed to know?

No way we would have figured this out.  I'm working to make Smatch
understand device_put() better but this one is way difficult.

Sorry that you went through this.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-31 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-29 15:49 [PATCH] scsi: sd: call device_del() if device_add_disk() fails Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-03-30  4:30 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31 15:26 ` Wenchao Hao
2022-03-31  5:41   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31  5:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-31  9:07       ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-03-31  9:13         ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-31 10:13           ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-03-31 12:14     ` Wenchao Hao
2022-03-31 13:42       ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31 14:19         ` James Bottomley
2022-03-31 15:11           ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31 16:14         ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-03-31 16:24           ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-03-31 17:21             ` Fabio M. De Francesco

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