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SubjectRe: syzbot bisection analysis
Hi Dmitry,

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 01:08:16PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> The remaining 10 were all diverged due to other unrelated memory leaks
> and other non-leak bugs. It seems the main 2 reasons for this:
> 1. Lots of leaks are old (kernel is under-tested with KMEMLEAK).
> 2. Lots of unrelated bugs.
> It's unclear how much KMEMLEAK potential for false positives is in
> play. For example, lots of bisections are diverged by "memory leak in
> batadv_tvlv_handler_register", but this is a true bug reported at:
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0654529ad3cc1d67a6d9812d8b75489c03dfb983
> However, some are diverged by e.g. "memory leak in __neigh_create" and
> "memory leak in copy_process" and these were not reported as separate
> leaks, so either false positives or true leaks fixed in previous
> releases.

Out of curiosity, when the tool tries to bisect a memory leak, does it
check for precisely that leak (e.g. by function name, object size) or
any other unrelated leak can confuse the bisection?

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Catalin

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