Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in __list_del_entry_valid

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Wed Dec 20 2017 - 04:25:25 EST


On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue 19-12-17 17:40:19, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> > Can we silence this duplicates [1] please?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/001a1140f57806ebef05608b25a5@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi Michal,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What exactly do you mean?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> These 2 are the same email with the same Message-ID just on different
>> >> >> mailing lists. I don't see anything wrong here.
>> >> >
>> >> > Hmm the other one has Message-id: 001a1140f57806ebef05608b25a5@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > while this one has 001a11452568f5857c0560b0dc0e@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >>
>> >> Ah, I see.
>> >> These are reported separately because the crashes are titled
>> >> differently. Kernel titled one as "general protection fault" and
>> >> another as "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference".
>> >
>> > Ahh, OK, so I've missed that part ;) I just thought it was duplicate
>> > because the report seemed very familiar.
>>
>>
>> So are these duplicates? If yes, we need to tell this syzbot:
>
> It seems so.

Please tell this directly to syzbot next time.

#syz dup: general protection fault in __list_del_entry_valid (2)