Re: [PATCH] media: pvrusb2: use a different format for warnings

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Wed Jun 19 2019 - 10:35:23 EST


On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 6:39 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > When the pvrusb2 driver detects that there's something wrong with the
> > device, it prints a warning message. Right now those message are
> > printed in two different formats:
> >
> > 1. ***WARNING*** message here
> > 2. WARNING: message here
> >
> > There's an issue with the second format. Syzkaller recognizes it as a
> > message produced by a WARN_ON(), which is used to indicate a bug in the
> > kernel. However pvrusb2 prints those warnings to indicate an issue with
> > the device, not the bug in the kernel.
> >
> > This patch changes the pvrusb2 driver to consistently use the first
> > warning message format. This will unblock syzkaller testing of this
> > driver.
> >
> > Reported-by: syzbot+af8f8d2ac0d39b0ed3a0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Reported-by: syzbot+170a86bf206dd2c6217e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think I see this patch picked up anywhere. Should this fix go
through the USB or some media tree?