On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:06 PM Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > syzbot has bisected this bug to: > > > > > > commit 77ef8f5177599efd0cedeb52c1950c1bd73fa5e3 > > > Author: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Date: Mon Jan 25 20:05:34 2016 +0000 > > > > > > tile kgdb: fix bug in copy to gdb regs, and optimize memset > > > > > > bisection log: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=1131bc0ee00000 > > > start commit: f5b7769e Revert "debugfs: inode: debugfs_create_dir uses m.. > > > git tree: upstream > > > final crash: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=1331bc0ee00000 > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1531bc0ee00000 > > > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=709f8187af941e84 > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=eaeb616d85c9a0afec7d > > > syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=177f898f800000 > > > C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=147eb85f800000 > > > > > > Reported-by: syzbot+eaeb616d85c9a0afec7d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Fixes: 77ef8f517759 ("tile kgdb: fix bug in copy to gdb regs, and optimize > > > memset") > > > > > > For information about bisection process see: https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#bisection > > > > Seriously? How can the commit in question (limited to arch/tile/kernel/kgdb.c) > > possibly affect a bug that manages to produce a crash report with > > RSP: 0018:ffffffff82e03eb8 EFLAGS: 00000282 > > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff82e00000 RCX: 0000000000000000 > > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff81088779 > > RBP: ffffffff82e03eb8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 > > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 > > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff82e00000 > > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > > CR2: 000000c420447ff8 CR3: 0000000213184000 CR4: 00000000001406f0 > > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > > in it? Unless something very odd has happened to tile, this crash has > > been observed on 64bit x86; the names of registers alone are enough > > to be certain of that. > > > > And the binaries produced by an x86 build should not be affected by any > > changes in arch/tile; not unless something is very wrong with the build > > system. It's not even that this commit has fixed an earlier bug that > > used to mask the one manifested here - it really should have had zero > > impact on x86 builds, period. > > > > So I'm sorry, but I'm calling bullshit. Something's quite wrong with > > the bot - either its build system or the bisection process. > > The acid test would be: does reverting that commit make the problem go away? > > See, for example, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203935 > > Cheers ... Duncan. This is done as part of any bisection by definition, right? The test was done on the previous commit (effectively this one reverted) and no crash was observed. Otherwise bisection would have been pointed to a different commit.
