Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in __list_del_entry_valid

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Tue Dec 19 2017 - 11:40:46 EST


On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > Can we silence this duplicates [1] please?
>> >> >
>> >> > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/001a1140f57806ebef05608b25a5@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >>
>> >> Hi Michal,
>> >>
>> >> What exactly do you mean?
>> >>
>> >> These 2 are the same email with the same Message-ID just on different
>> >> mailing lists. I don't see anything wrong here.
>> >
>> > Hmm the other one has Message-id: 001a1140f57806ebef05608b25a5@xxxxxxxxxx
>> > while this one has 001a11452568f5857c0560b0dc0e@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Ah, I see.
>> These are reported separately because the crashes are titled
>> differently. Kernel titled one as "general protection fault" and
>> another as "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference".
>
> Ahh, OK, so I've missed that part ;) I just thought it was duplicate
> because the report seemed very familiar.


So are these duplicates? If yes, we need to tell this syzbot:

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