Re: [PATCH] media: pvrusb2: use a different format for warnings

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 4:30 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 6:39 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > > When the pvrusb2 driver detects that there's something wrong with the
> > > device, it prints a warning message. Right now those message are
> > > printed in two different formats:
> > >
> > > 1. ***WARNING*** message here
> > > 2. WARNING: message here
> > >
> > > There's an issue with the second format. Syzkaller recognizes it as a
> > > message produced by a WARN_ON(), which is used to indicate a bug in the
> > > kernel. However pvrusb2 prints those warnings to indicate an issue with
> > > the device, not the bug in the kernel.
> > >
> > > This patch changes the pvrusb2 driver to consistently use the first
> > > warning message format. This will unblock syzkaller testing of this
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+af8f8d2ac0d39b0ed3a0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+170a86bf206dd2c6217e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I don't think I see this patch picked up anywhere. Should this fix go
> through the USB or some media tree?

Ah, found something here:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg151398.html

I guess it'll go in with 5.3.