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Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 14:14:51 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKP <lkp@...org>
Subject: Re: [lkp-robot] [x86/entry/64/compat] 8bb2610bc4: kernel_selftests.x86.test_syscall_vdso_32.fail

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:30 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>
> Nah, it’s a legit error.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/x86/entry?id=22cd978e598618e82c3c3348d2069184f6884182

Ahh. I looked at the patch and it looked "obviously correct", but only
tested my current tree (which had the above fix), not that actual
tree.

> I blame git apply for being a bit overzealous.

Heh. git apply is actually very careful and refuses to apply with
fuzz, but yes, it will apply with a big offset if the original place
has changed and it can find another place that is an exact match (why?
Think "somebody moved code around").

But yeah, apparently that _right_ point had changed, and there was an
exact match at the wrong spot. Duplicate code is bad, hmm.

And I was then confused because I was looking at an *old* dmesg
report, and saw the old kernel version from there, rather than the
right one, so I incorrectly blamed "you're running the wrong kernel".

              Linus