Re: net/sctp: list double add warning in sctp_endpoint_add_asoc

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:02:44PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:29:19AM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I've got the following error report while fuzzing the kernel with syzkaller.
> >> >
> >> > On commit a71c9a1c779f2499fb2afc0553e543f18aff6edf (4.11-rc5).
> >> >
> >> > A reproducer and .config are attached.
> >> The script is pretty hard to reproduce the issue in my env.
> >
> > I didn't try running it but I also found the reproducer very complicated
> > to follow. Do you have any plans on having some PoC optimizer, so we can
> > have a more readable code?
> > strace is handy for filtering the noise, yes, but sometimes it doesn't
> > cut it.
> 
> We do have some plans (like to remote all those unnecessary helper
> functions), but it's probably not going to become much better.
> 
> You mostly only need to look at the thr() function to understand
> what's going on.

Okay.

> 
> What I sometimes do is run each of the switch cases under strace
> separately to understand what each of them do.
> 
> I've also attached a program in syzkaller format.
> You can take a look at it, if you find it useful, I can start
> attaching them for subsequent reports.

Comparing it to thr() they look very close, at least for this one.
But when you cannot extract a reproducer, it will certainly help.

Thanks,
Marcelo