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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 8 Dec 2019 19:15:58 -0800
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Subject: Re: refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free with CIFS umount after
 scsi-misc commit ef2cc88e2a205b8a11a19e78db63a70d3728cdf5
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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        SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 7:10 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> You're right that at least the CI bots might want to disable it for
> bisecting. Or force a particular seed for RANDSTRUCT - I seem to
> recall that there was some way to make it be at least repeatable for
> any particular structure.

Yeah, if you build in the same directory and don't do a "distclean" or
"git clean -dqfx", the seed remains in
scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h across builds, and the
result then _should_ be repeatable.

But yes, it's the kind of noise that is likely not worth fighting for
bisection (or any random bug hunting) at all, and turning off
RANDSTRUCT is probably the right thing to do.

But I don't think Arthur had RANDSTRUCT enabled, so that should be fine.

            Linus