linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] WARNING in mark_buffer

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Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2022 15:17:37 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+2af3bc9585be7f23f290@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [syzbot] WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty (4)

On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 03:13:13PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 at 12:56, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> > It's clearly none of those commits.  This is a bug in minix, afaict.
> > Judging by the earlier errors, I'd say that it tried to read something,
> > failed, then marked it dirty, at which point we hit an assertion that
> > you shouldn't mark a !uptodate buffer as dirty.  Given that this is
> > minix, I have no interest in pursuing this bug further.  Why is syzbot
> > even testing with minix?
> 
> Shouldn't it? Why? It does not seem to depend on BROKEN.

There is no entry for minix in MAINTAINERS.  Nobody cares about it.