linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] [xfs?] WARNING: kmalloc bug in xfs_buf

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Message-ID: <aSQbYfHTBvX6cpsx@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:46:25 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@...gle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	syzbot <syzbot+3735a85c5c610415e2b6@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
	cem@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [xfs?] WARNING: kmalloc bug in xfs_buf_alloc

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 09:43:47AM +0100, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > This got fixed in vmalloc by adding GFP_NOLOCKDEP to the allow vmalloc
> > flags.
> >
> > Is syzbot now also running on linux-next?
> >
> 
> Linux-next has been one of the targets for a very long time already.

Ok, I'm not updatodate then.  How do we deal with the fact that no
specific commit fixed an issue, but a commit causing a problem got
replaced with a different one in linux-next?