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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/syzbot.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/vcs/linux.go | 8 |
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diff --git a/docs/syzbot.md b/docs/syzbot.md index c3a84621b..c0c30077b 100644 --- a/docs/syzbot.md +++ b/docs/syzbot.md @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ using `#syz fix: commit-title` commands. can reproduce the bug and then goes back release-by-release to find the first release where kernel does not crash. Once such release is found, `syzbot` starts bisection on that range. `syzbot` has limitation of how far back in time it can -go (currently `v4.1`), going back in time is [very hard](/pkg/vcs/linux.go) +go (currently `v4.19`), going back in time is [very hard](/pkg/vcs/linux.go) because of incompatible compiler/linker/asm/perl/make/libc/etc, kernel build/boot breakages and large amounts of bugs. diff --git a/pkg/vcs/linux.go b/pkg/vcs/linux.go index 5e2ccf3e1..2ec37b3b1 100644 --- a/pkg/vcs/linux.go +++ b/pkg/vcs/linux.go @@ -64,12 +64,16 @@ func (ctx *linux) PreviousReleaseTags(commit, compilerType string) ([]string, er // // We used to use 4.1 as the oldest tested release (it works in general). // However, there is correlation between how far back we go and probability - // of getting correct result (see #1532). So we now stop at 4.6. + // of getting correct result (see #1532). So we then stopped at 4.6. // 4.6 is somewhat arbitrary, we've seen lots of wrong results in 4.5..4.6 range, // but there is definitive reason for 4.6. Most likely later we want to bump it // even more (as new releases are produced). Next good candidate may be 4.11 // because then we won't need gcc 5.5. - cutoff = "v4.5" + // + // TODO: The buildroot images deployed after #2820 can only boot v4.19+ kernels. + // This has caused lots of bad bisection results, see #3224. We either need a new + // universal image or a kernel version dependant image selection. + cutoff = "v4.18" } else if compilerType == "clang" { // v5.3 was the first release with solid clang support, however I was able to // compile v5.1..v5.3 using a newer defconfig + make oldconfig. Everything older |