Re: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in bacpy

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Please see https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#bisection
> it should answer all of your questions. It does 2 and more.
> And in this case it seems to be working as intended bisecting it to a
> release tag.

No, it's definitely not working as intended.

You can see it in the bisect log - you don't actually have a single
"git bisect bad" outside of the initial one that you start bisecting
with. That's a pretty good sign of bisection being completely broken.
Yes, it can happen in theory, but in general with a good bisection,
you should see about as many "good" results as "bad".

I bet that what's going on is that your initial "let's test every
release" uses a _different_ process than the actual bisection itself
does.

So if I were you, I'd look at what syzbot does differently during
bisection vs what it does for that initial "test each release". For
example, does it do "make clean" in between each build in one case,
but not the other? Does it do "make oldconfig" vs a fixed config
generated from scratch every time? Because the fact that you first
tested 4.10 bad using the "test each release", and then when you do
bisection, the very commit *before* 4.10 is good (the only difference
being the EXTRAVERSION and the tag) shows that something went wrong.

                      Linus