Re: [PATCH] xfs: mark the i_delayed_blks access in xfs_file_release as racy

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.lkmm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-xfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 10:00:28AM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> I agree with you here, and we could slowly start marking those shared accesses
> as racy, but bots spitting false-positivies all the time doesn't help much,
> other than taking somebody's else time to look into the report.
> 
> Taking as example one case in the previous report, where the report complained
> about concurrent bp->b_addr access during the buffer instantiation.

I'd like to understand that one a bit more.  It might be because the
validator doesn't understand a semaphore used as lock is a lock, but
I'll follow up there.

> So, I think Dave has a point too. Like what happens with syzkaller
> and random people reporting random syzkaller warnings.
> 
> While I appreciate the reports too, I think it would be fair for the reporters
> to spend some time to at least craft a RFC patch fixing the warning.

Well, it was polite mails about their finding, which I find useful.
If we got a huge amount of spam that might be different.
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