Re: general protection fault in send_sigurg_to_task

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Wed Aug 15 2018 - 16:35:06 EST


On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 01:50:20PM -0700, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:11 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 06:33:02AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> >> syzbot has found a reproducer for the following crash on:
> >>
> >> HEAD commit: 5ed5da74de9e Add linux-next specific files for 20180813
> >> git tree: linux-next
> >
> > I fetched linux-next but don't have 5ed5da74de9e.
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> +Stephen for the disappeared linux-next commit.
>
> On the dashboard link you can see that it also happened on a more
> recent commit 4e8b38549b50459a22573d756dd1f4e1963c2a8d that I do see
> now in linux-next.
>
> > I'm also not sure why I'm on the cc for this.
>
> You've been pointed to by "./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f fs/fcntl.c"
> as maintainer of the file, which is the file where the crash happened.

We should probably fix that. There's a tiny bit of lock-related code in
that file but it's not at all interesting compared, say, to the code
that this bug is hitting....

(Which I have no clue about. send_sigurg_to_task() is getting a bad
task? Help.)

--b.

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 9d5eeff51b5f..a5dca2be8513 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5541,9 +5541,6 @@ M: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
M: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
S: Maintained
-F: include/linux/fcntl.h
-F: include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
-F: fs/fcntl.c
F: fs/locks.c

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