From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
syzbot <syzbot+ec1b7575afef85a0e5ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: kernel panic: corrupted stack end in wb_workfn
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:59:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACT4Y+b-VNeKwgP9-x2YZJ08v0f=2C2SujVkgEmcQ+B-ZmmCLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a06830e7-e396-6dd5-d9d5-2a7b1df9efc1@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:59 AM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> On 2019/03/20 19:42, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >> I mean, yes, I agree, kernel bug bisection won't be perfect. But do
> >> you see anything actionable here?
>
> Allow users to manually tell bisection range when
> automatic bisection found a wrong commit.
>
> Also, allow users to specify reproducer program
> when automatic bisection found a wrong commit.
>
> Yes, this is anti automation. But since automation can't become perfect,
> I'm suggesting manual adjustment. Even if we involve manual adjustment,
> the syzbot's plenty CPU resources for building/testing kernels is highly
> appreciated (compared to doing manual bisection by building/testing kernels
> on personal PC environments).
FTR: provided an extended answer here:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/1BSkmb_fawo/DOcDxv_KAgAJ
> > I see the larger long term bisection quality improvement (for syzbot
> > and for everybody else) in doing some actual testing for each kernel
> > commit before it's being merged into any kernel tree, so that we have
> > less of these a single program triggers 3 different bugs, stray
> > unrelated bugs, broken release boots, etc. I don't see how reliable
> > bisection is possible without that.
> >
>
> syzbot currently cannot test kernels with custom patches (unless "#syz test:" requests).
> Are you saying that syzbot will become be able to test kernels with custom patches?
I mean if we start improving kernel quality over time so that we have
less of these a single program triggers 3 different bugs, stray
unrelated bugs, broken release boots, etc, it will improve bisection
quality for everybody (beside being hugely useful in itself).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-20 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-31 3:41 syzbot
2018-12-31 3:41 ` syzbot
2018-12-31 3:47 ` Qian Cai
2018-12-31 6:31 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-12-31 6:31 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-03-17 20:49 ` syzbot
2019-03-19 18:03 ` Xin Long
2019-03-20 9:56 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2019-03-20 9:59 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-03-20 10:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-03-20 10:38 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-03-20 10:42 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-03-20 10:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-03-20 13:59 ` Dmitry Vyukov [this message]
2019-03-20 13:34 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2019-03-20 13:57 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-03-21 9:45 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-03-21 9:51 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-03-21 11:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
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