netdev - Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in rds_tcp

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Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:58:43 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+bbd8e9a06452cc48059b@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in rds_tcp_tune

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:35:55AM -0500, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
>> On (02/14/18 16:28), Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> > syzbot is probably not seeing this problem. However if you don't add
>> > the Reported-by tag to commit, nor provide syz fix tag, it will
>> > consider it as "open". One consequence of this is that it is still on
>> > our radars. Another consequence is that syzbot will never report bugs
>> > in rds_tcp_tune ever again as it thinks that it's the same known bug,
>> > so no point in bothering anybody.
>>
>> understood, I think I saw this in the original syzbot mail as well,
>> but I was hesitant to actually add the tag because the fix was
>> based on code-inspection only, and I would have felt more comfortable
>> about asserting the Reported-by if I'd done a clear-cut before/after
>> verification.
>
> I think the point is you have to clear it from syzbot to get it to
> even test your patches, even if you are not totally sure your patch
> fixes it?

Sorry, I failed to parse this sentence. Can you please rephrase it?