Re: [PATCH] hwrng: virtio - Fix race on data_avail and actual data

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Hi Ted,

On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 11:06 AM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 07:33:39AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > A link like this may work for syzbot instead of the Reported-by tag
> > (may work out of the box, but need to double check if we start to use
> > this):
> >
> > Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=726dc8c62c3536431ceb
> >
> > Or similarly this may work:
> >
> > Reported-by: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=726dc8c62c3536431ceb
> > I think the parsing code mostly looks for the hash.
> >
> > This was proposed, but people said that they need links to lore and
> > don't want links to syzkaller dashboard. So this was rejected at the
> > time.
>
> I think the "Reported-by: " line should continue to contain an e-mail,
> since that way "git send-email" will automatically include a Cc: to
> the mailing list address so that the syzbot page for the report will
> contain a link to the page.
>
> What *would* be useful would be a search box on the top-level
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com where you could either enter an e-mail
> address like:
>
>         syzbot+726dc8c62c3536431ceb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> or the syzbot report title e.g.:
>
>        KCSAN: data-race in random_recv_done / virtio_read (3)
>
> or just a function name:
>
>         sys_quotactl_fd
>
> The search box could just push the text to google.com with
> "site:syzkaller.appspot.com", which should mostly do the right thing.

Thanks for the suggestion! I've filed
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/issues/3892

>
> Also, it would also be nice if all of the URL links on the
> syzkaller.appspot.com used the id form of the URL.  That is, to use
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6c73bd34311ee489dbf5
>
> instead of:
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=32c54626e170a6b327ca2c8ae4c1aea666a8c20b
>
> The extid form of the URL is shorter, and having a consistency so that
> the primary URL is the extid would reduce confusion.  The web site
> will need to continue to support the id form of the URL since there
> are quite a few of those URL's in mailing list archives and git commit
> descriptions.
>
> It also would be useful if there was a way to translate from the extid
> hash to the id hash, so that it's possible to search for the extid and
> id forms of the URL --- since the URL aliasing means that for a
> developer trying to do code archeology and web searches, that we need
> to search for both URL forms for past syzbot reports.  (But if we can
> avoid the aliasing confusion moving forward, that would be **really**
> nice.)

I've just sent a PR [1] so that URLs from bug lists on the web
dashboard use the extid= instead of the id= parameter. Hopefully this
will reduce the confusion.

[1] https://github.com/google/syzkaller/pull/3891

-- 
Aleksandr

>
> Cheers,
>
>                                                 - Ted




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