Re: [syzbot] KASAN: use-after-free Read in post_one_notification

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Tue Mar 22 2022 - 03:52:23 EST


On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 16:40, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > memcpy((void*)0x20000280, "/dev/adsp1\000", 11);
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> Is that significant to the test?! I presume it's some sort of sound device?

Hi David,

syzkaller tries to minimize reproducers and remove anything that's not
necessary to reproduce the crash.
However, this is done mechanically. Things may have some secondary
effects that prevent removal, or a crash may be simply flaky and then
removing just anything may lead to no crash.