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Date:   Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:48:55 +0200
From:   Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
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Subject: Re: BUG: corrupted list in p9_read_work
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Dmitry Vyukov wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2018:
> > Back to the current patch, since as I said I am not confident this is a
> > good enough fix for the current bug, will I get notified if the bug
> > happens again once the patch hits linux-next with the Reported-by tag ?
> > (I don't have the setup necessary to run a syz repro as there is no C
> > repro, and won't have much time to do that setup sorry)
> 
> Yes, the bug will be reported again if it still happens after the
> patch is merged (not just into linux-next, but into all tested trees,
> but it does not matter much). So marking bugs as fixed tentatively is
> fine if that's our best guess.

Ok, thanks for confirming...

> But note that syzbot can test fixes itself on request. It boils down
> to just giving it the patch and the base tree:
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#testing-patches

.. and for clarifying that bit, let's try that! :)

#syz test: git://github.com/martinetd/linux e4ca13f7d075e551dc158df6af18fb412a1dba0a

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Dominique