Re: [ovl] 30f9ef9479: BUG:kernel_NULL_pointer_dereference,address

From: Oliver Sang
Date: Mon Apr 11 2022 - 05:07:48 EST


hi, Christian,

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 12:26:05PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 05:40:23PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> >
> >
> > Greeting,
> >
> > FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-11):
> >
> > commit: 30f9ef94795008e5146f69d2eb043922a512bf85 ("ovl: support idmapped layers")
> > https://github.com/ammarfaizi2/linux-block brauner/linux/fs.idmapped.overlayfs.v3
>
> That's an old branch. :)
> Anything that has a *.v<idx> appended is basically an old version in my
> tree. The base branch is always the branch name without the *.v<idx>
> suffix.

got it. so there is no need to test these *.v<idx> branches, whatever build,
boot or function, right? If so, we will disable it.

>
> Thanks!
> Christian