Re: what trees/branches to test on syzbot

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Mon Jul 09 2018 - 22:14:55 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

Thank you.

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

The build warning is about mips architecture rather than this patch itself,
for x86_64 builds fine. You can add this patch despite the build warning.