linux-kernel - Re: [ovl] 30f9ef9479: BUG:kernel_NULL_pointer

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Message-ID: <20220411090719.GA21954@xsang-OptiPlex-9020>
Date:   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:07:19 +0800
From:   Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@...el.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>, lkp@...ts.01.org,
        lkp@...el.com, guobing.chen@...el.com, ming.a.chen@...el.com,
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        dapeng1.mi@...el.com, jiebin.sun@...el.com, gengxin.xie@...el.com,
        fan.zhao@...el.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ovl]  30f9ef9479: BUG:kernel_NULL_pointer_dereference,address

hi, Christian,

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 12:26:05PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 05:40:23PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Greeting,
> > 
> > FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-11):
> > 
> > commit: 30f9ef94795008e5146f69d2eb043922a512bf85 ("ovl: support idmapped layers")
> > https://github.com/ammarfaizi2/linux-block brauner/linux/fs.idmapped.overlayfs.v3
> 
> That's an old branch. :)
> Anything that has a *.v<idx> appended is basically an old version in my
> tree. The base branch is always the branch name without the *.v<idx>
> suffix.

got it. so there is no need to test these *.v<idx> branches, whatever build,
boot or function, right? If so, we will disable it.

> 
> Thanks!
> Christian