linux-kernel - Re: LKML admins (syzbot emails are not delivered)

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Date:   Thu, 4 Jan 2018 12:09:26 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: LKML admins (syzbot emails are not delivered)

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 10:25 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> > >
>> > > Some of syzbot emails don't appear on LKML mailing lists, while they
>> > > were mailed as any other emails. Here are few examples:
>> > >
>> > > "KASAN: use-after-free Read in rds_tcp_dev_event"
>> > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/nEeIAsNLWL4/1GzamOmRAwAJ
>> > >
>> > > "general protection fault in __wake_up_common"
>> > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/4TrrZ0bIViw/rBcYLUJHAgAJ
>> > >
>> > > Does anybody know how to get in contact with real people behind LKML
>> > > and/or bugzilla?
>> >
>> > Not delivering syzbot emails might be good thing?
>>
>> Nah, the thing is finding and reporting bugs just like a human would,
>> it just doesn't need sleep etc, so sometimes reports more than humans
>> can keep up with.  It needs a smarter brother.. but then again, maybe
>> not, if bots start fixing things too, a lot of meatware hackers would
>> have to go find real jobs.
>
> Sending random, unrepeatable Oopses to lkml is not what humans would
> do, and perhaps not something bots should do, either.


Hi Pavel,

I've answered this question here in full detail. In short, this is
useful and actionable.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/2nVn_XkVhEE/GjjfISejCgAJ