Re: general protection fault in ext4_update_overhead

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Tue Sep 12 2023 - 19:53:35 EST


On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 07:41:12PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:02:35PM +0000, Sanan Hasanov wrote:
> > Good day, dear maintainers,
> >
> > We found a bug using a modified kernel configuration file used by syzbot.
> >
> > We enhanced the coverage of the configuration file using our tool, klocalizer.
> >
> > Kernel Branch: 6.3.0-next-20230426

Also this was from ^^^^^^^^ four months ago.

Why are you wasting Ted and everyone else's time with this?

--D

> > Kernel Config: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xpe7qMUUYvHQFzqZGUzcco9jF97EwTqQ/view?usp=sharing
> > Reproducer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q8ix6EiWrzx0bWLyoGTHP721KE4Ei3qf/view?usp=sharing
>
> The reproducer is a zero-length file. So I can do nothing with this
> report.
>
> Note that the official syzbot instance will do automatic bisection,
> and will allow us to test patches. The official syzbot instance also
> processes the console output so that the stack trace has line numbers
> and clickable links to the kernel sources.
>
> This report is **much** less useful than the syzbot report, so please
> don't be surprised if people treat this at a significantly lower
> priority. (Even if the reproducer wasn't a zero length file. :-P )
>
> - Ted