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prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata=mDMEZuK5YxYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAmJ3dM9Sz6/Hodu33Qrf8QH2bNeNbOikqYtxWFLVm0 1a0JEdhYnJpZWxlIE1vbmFjbyA8Z21vbmFjb0BrZXJuZWwub3JnPoiZBBMWCgBBFiEEysoR+AuB3R Zwp6j270psSVh4TfIFAmjKX2MCGwMFCQWjmoAFCwkIBwICIgIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwECHgcCF4AACgk Q70psSVh4TfIQuAD+JulczTN6l7oJjyroySU55Fbjdvo52xiYYlMjPG7dCTsBAMFI7dSL5zg98I+8 cXY1J7kyNsY6/dcipqBM4RMaxXsOtCRHYWJyaWVsZSBNb25hY28gPGdtb25hY29AcmVkaGF0LmNvb T6InAQTFgoARAIbAwUJBaOagAULCQgHAgIiAgYVCgkICwIEFgIDAQIeBwIXgBYhBMrKEfgLgd0WcK eo9u9KbElYeE3yBQJoymCyAhkBAAoJEO9KbElYeE3yjX4BAJ/ETNnlHn8OjZPT77xGmal9kbT1bC1 7DfrYVISWV2Y1AP9HdAMhWNAvtCtN2S1beYjNybuK6IzWYcFfeOV+OBWRDQ== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2 (3.56.2-2.fc42) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Thu, 2025-09-18 at 11:48 +0200, Tomas Glozar wrote: > =C4=8Dt 18. 9. 2025 v 10:36 odes=C3=ADlatel Gabriele Monaco napsal: > >=20 > > Yeah totally, I have the feeling that with the kernel there's no such a > > thing as a "theoretical bug", kinda like a good consequence of Murphy's > > Law. >=20 > My understanding of "theoretical bug" is that it's code that is > semantically equivalent to a bug-free code, but becomes buggy after > doing an "innocent" change. The bug might be more or less > "theoretical" based on how "innocent" that change is. Of course, in a > codebase of the size of a Linux kernel, this tends to happen quite > often, and is not always possible to get rid of completely... Yeah good point, we are getting philosophical here :) . This wasn't a theoretical bug then, just something you don't think will really happen (a failure creating a sysfs directory) ... until it happens. The fact there is a way to make that function fail on-demand (kernel lockdo= wn), makes it just more "real". Moral of the story, better get the compiler chec= k things for you (lock guards). Anyway the fix is now upstream. Gabriele