Re: seeking beginner-friendly mm bugs to work on

[Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

Hi Dileep,

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM Dileep Sankhla
<dileepsankhla.ds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Thank you all for improving, enhancing, and maintaining the memory
> management subsystem.
>
> I am new to Linux kernel development. Until now, I have only one
> contribution that fixes the checkpatch.pl warning. I have also
> attempted to create my own 64-bit Unix-like kernel from scratch for
> x86-64 PCs. I worked on implementing a physical memory manager and I
> also experimented with 64-bit paging.
>
> I want to begin solving a few beginner-friendly bugs. I searched
> bugzilla but I don't know which ones are for beginners like me. Could
> you guys help me in seeking bugs to work on?

There are many bugs reported by the syzkaller fuzzer here:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream/s/mm

Those with C reproducers are usually easier to fix, although it is not
always the case, at least they are good starters, IMHO.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Cong Wang