netdev - Re: Regarding possible bug in net/wan/x25

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Message-ID: <CAJht_ENNhvOO=V+bABBC3nL6G7Gkw6H-UVQPWxO4_vyYXcVNhA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:49:04 -0700
From:   Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
To:     Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        andrianov <andrianov@...ras.ru>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regarding possible bug in net/wan/x25_asy.c

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 7:13 AM Madhuparna Bhowmik
<madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Sure, I had a look at it and since you are already working on fixing
> this driver, don't think there is a need for a patch to fix the
> particular race condition bug. This bug was found by the Linux driver
> verification project and my work was to report it to the maintainers.

OK. Thank you for reporting!

I think the Linux driver verification project works very well because
it can help to find data races.

This driver might take a long time to fix because it has many issues,
and developers who are interested in it and are able to review patches
to it are rare.

Xie He