From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+3031f712c7ad5dd4d926@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: WARNING in filldir64
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 12:14:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whtA4bWH=8xY8TAejDR4XyHDux0xH7_y-0jzft0XkvMfw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191007190747.GA16653@gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 12:07 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Seems this indicates a corrupt filesystem rather than a kernel bug, so using
> WARN_ON is not appropriate. It should either use pr_warn_once(), or be silent.
I was going to silence it for the actual 5.4 release, but I wanted to
see if anybody actually triggers it.
I didn't really _expect_ it to be triggered, to be honest, so it's
interesting that it did. What is syzbot doing?
If this is syzbot doing filesystem image randomization, then it falls
under "ok, expected, ignore it, we'll silence it for 5.4"
But if it's syzbot doing something else, then it would be interesting
to hear what it's up to.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-07 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-07 14:30 WARNING in filldir64 syzbot
2019-10-07 19:07 ` Eric Biggers
2019-10-07 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-10-07 19:19 ` Eric Biggers
2019-10-07 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
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