Re: INFO: task hung in __floppy_read_block_0

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 01:20:33PM -0700, Dipanjan Das wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 7:23 AM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Dipanjan, are you really sure that you want to report a "INFO: task
> > hung" bug identified with your syzkaller instance? Especially for a
> > floppy driver, probably in your case even just an emulated one
> > (right?). Reading data from floppies was always very slow as far as I
> > remember those times...
> 
> >From the bugs reported by syzkaller in the past, we observed that
> several of these "INFO: task hung in... " reports were considered and
> acted on, for example, this:
> https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/c/L0SBaHZ5bYc. For the
> reported issue, we noticed the read task stays blocked for 143
> seconds, which seemed to be one the higher, especially given that it
> is an emulated floppy drive (yes, you are right). If it deems normal,
> then we do apologize for our misassesment.

FWIW I've been running the repro here on machine running 5.19-rc8 and
equipped with a real floppy drive. The code is still running as I type,
it sounds like it's destroying the floppy disk in it but after 12 minutes
of torture, nothing happens.

Thus I'm a bit confused about what to look for. It's very likely that
there are still bugs left in this driver, but trying to identify them
and to validate a fix will be difficult if they cannot be reproduced.
Maybe they only happen under emulation due to timing issues.

As such, any hint about the exact setup and how long to wait to get
the error would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Willy