Re: what trees/branches to test on syzbot

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jul 09 2018 - 20:35:55 EST


On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 08:26:32 +0900 Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
>
> It seems that syzbot (experimentally ?) restarted testing linux-next.
>
> May I ask you to carry temporarily debug printk() patch at
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/E8M8WTqt034/OpadOICfCAAJ
> for "INFO: task hung in __sb_start_write" case?
>
> The bug should be reproduced within a day if executed under syzbot environment.
> Thus, I'm sure that we don't need to carry this patch for long.

Sure, I can add that. Let's get the build warning sorted out first,
please. Any old silly workaround will suffice in a developer-only
debug patch.