netdev - Re: [syzbot] [net?] general protection fault in dev_prep_valid

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Message-ID: <20241118185323.37969bcd@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:23 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Caleb Sander <csander@...estorage.com>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+21ba4d5adff0b6a7cfc6@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
 andrew+netdev@...n.ch, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
 parav@...dia.com, saeedm@...dia.com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
 tariqt@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [net?] general protection fault in dev_prep_valid_name

On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:19:23 -0800 Caleb Sander wrote:
> Hmm, it seems very unlikely that "mlx5/core: Schedule EQ comp tasklet
> only if necessary" could have caused this issue. The commit only
> touches the mlx5 driver. Does the test machine have ConnectX NICs? The
> commit itself simply moves where tasklet_schedule() is called for the
> mlx5_cq_tasklet_cb() tasklet, making it so the tasklet will only be
> scheduled to process userspace RDMA completions.
> Is it possible that the failure is not consistently reproducible and
> the bisection is landing on the wrong commit?

Yes, most likely bad bisection, I looked at the syzbot docs but I don't
see the command for invalidating the bisection results.