Alexander Potapenko
Alexander Potapenko
Right now syzbot does not immediately rebuild the kernel when new patches arrive, instead doing that every several hours. In most cases this is a reasonable tradeoff between having the...
When changing files in GitHub online editor, it's hard to obey the formatting rules. It would be nice to have a GitHub Action to format the code properly. https://github.com/peter-evans/slash-command-dispatch can...
…le offset On ARM64 Linux kernel performs extra trickery when calculating the offset of the .text section. In particular, it overrides sizes and alignments of the .plt and .text.ftrace_trampoline sections,...
Recent kernel changes uncovered the false positives in KMSAN caused by kmsan_unpoison_memory() not working from within KMSAN runtime. This should be fix by https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git/commit/?h=mm-everything&id=3fb7deab1523e659dcd0b08b393f13608c34593c, until then we disable CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST in...
When fuzzing Android, the executor sometimes leaves broken symlinks that point to non-existent directories. The command that adb.go was using to delete the leftover symlinks: `find /data/syzkaller* -type l -exec...
An attempt to land https://github.com/google/syzkaller/commit/3392690e404b6ba5022825d33259bc2e9e89eb53 failed, because for many builds it turned out that kcov returned coverage data that didn't match any callbacks in the binaries. It turned out that...
When a new crash is discovered, it is put into the repro queue, and stays there until one of the VMs becomes free. With physical devices serving as VMs, this...
When writing new descriptions, it's hard to understand where to start by looking at the coverage dashboard. It would be nice to have a "/dev dashboard" that would show the...
According to include/uapi/linux/dma-heap.h, `fd` is an output parameter. Also declare a resource that can be used by other dma_heap consumers. ******************************************************************************* Before sending a pull request, please review Contribution Guidelines:...
When bugs with different titles are sometimes grouped together (e.g. `general protection fault in foo` and `KASAN: use-after-free in foo`), syzbot may update a particular bug with a sample crash...