Re: [syzbot] [ext4?] INFO: task hung in ext4_evict_ea_inode

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On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 at 19:11, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2/3/23 00:53, syzbot wrote:
> > syzbot has bisected this issue to:
> >
> > commit 82ede9c19839079e7953a47895729852a440080c
> > Author: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Tue Jun 21 14:46:53 2022 +0000
> >
> >      scsi: ufs: core: Fix typos in error messages
>
> To the syzbot maintainers: I think this is a good example of a bisection
> result that is wrong. It is unlikely that fixing typos in kernel
> messages would affect whether or not the kernel hangs. Additionally, as
> far as I know, the systems used by syzbot (Google Compute Engine virtual
> machines) do trigger any code in the UFS driver.

Hi Bart,

syzbot has logic to detect commits that don't affect builds.
It hashes SHF_ALLOC vmlinux sections to check if the commit actually
has any effect on the binary:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/c673ca06b23cea94091ab496ef62c3513e434585/pkg/build/linux.go#L253-L286

Bug CONFIG_UFS_FS is enabled on syzbot, it has some coverage for it,
and strings affect the binary (can actually be the root cause for
bugs). So I don't see what else can be done here automatically.




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