linux-kernel - Re: general protection fault in show

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Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:34:12 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
cc:     Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, security@...nel.org,
        Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: general protection fault in show_timer

On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Greg KH wrote:
> >> Did this ever go anywhere?  I don't see it in Linus's tree yet...
> >
> > I learned yesterday that syzboz is understuffed and cannot test patches, so
> > I need to find a minute to run the reproducer myself and verify that the
> > patch is correct.
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Why do you say so? Have you tried to ask it to test?
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#communication-with-syzbot
> What happened?

Eric explained that to me yesterday and I did not try yet. 

Thanks,

	tglx