[Linux-kernel-mentees] Question regarding marking bugs as "invalid"

[Himadri Pandya]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 5:33 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 1:52 PM Himadri Pandya <himadrispandya at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it correct to mark bugs as "invalid" if they have reproducers but
> > the reproducer doesn't trigger any issue on testing current status? If
> > not, then what should be done about such bugs?
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Himadri
> >
>
> Himadri,
>
> if possible try to determine which commit fixed the issue the
> reproducer triggered.
>
> You can potentially bisect with the reproducer on the git history or
> you can simply look in the git log of the affected files if someone
> mentioned fixing something related to the trigger.
>
> That helps to make sure we do not just close reproducers that just
> need a lot of time, configuration or luck to hit a certain crash.
>
> Lukas

Understood. Thank you.

Himadri