Re: [syzbot] WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty (4)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Jul 04 2022 - 10:18:01 EST


On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 03:13:13PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 at 12:56, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's clearly none of those commits. This is a bug in minix, afaict.
> > Judging by the earlier errors, I'd say that it tried to read something,
> > failed, then marked it dirty, at which point we hit an assertion that
> > you shouldn't mark a !uptodate buffer as dirty. Given that this is
> > minix, I have no interest in pursuing this bug further. Why is syzbot
> > even testing with minix?
>
> Shouldn't it? Why? It does not seem to depend on BROKEN.

There is no entry for minix in MAINTAINERS. Nobody cares about it.