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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: "syzbot" <syzbot@kernel.org>
Cc: syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, Slawomir Stepien <sst@poczta.fm>,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzbot@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdevsim: fix deadlock in nsim_bus_dev_max_vfs_write()
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 16:08:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805160851.571ed66f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7bf56ea-7522-4163-acd5-aaa69ad03b3a@mail.kernel.org>

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:55:04 +0000 (UTC) syzbot wrote:
> --- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c
> @@ -273,7 +273,11 @@ static ssize_t nsim_bus_dev_max_vfs_write(struct file *file,

Sorry to chime in poniewczasie.
Please delete this file. netdevsim is a harness for in-tree selftests,
none seems to be reading or writing the debugfs num_vfs AFAICT
so let's just drop it?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-05 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-31  9:55 [PATCH] netdevsim: fix deadlock in nsim_bus_dev_max_vfs_write() syzbot
2026-08-04 14:33 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-08-05  8:55   ` Slawomir Stepien
2026-08-05  9:05     ` Paolo Abeni
2026-08-05 23:08 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-08-07  7:31   ` Slawomir Stepien

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