Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] idr: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() when trying to check id

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:47:24PM +0530, Anmol Karn wrote:
> idr_get_next() gives WARN_ON_ONCE() when it gets (id > INT_MAX) true
> and this happens when syzbot does fuzzing, and that warning is
> expected, but WARN_ON_ONCE() is not required here and, cecking
> the condition and returning NULL value would be suffice.
> 
> Reference: commit b9959c7a347 ("filldir[64]: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() for bad directory entries")
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+f7204dcf3df4bb4ce42c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f7204dcf3df4bb4ce42c 
> Signed-off-by: Anmol Karn <anmol.karan123@xxxxxxxxx>

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