linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] syzbot process

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2018 13:51:28 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Ozgur <ozgur@...sey.org>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        andreyknvl <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...gle.com>,
        Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] syzbot process

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Ozgur <ozgur@...sey.org> wrote:
> 28.12.2017, 15:30, "Dmitry Vyukov" <dvyukov@...gle.com>:
>> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Ozgur <ozgur@...sey.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>>   and I think syzbot use to .txt file attached.
>>>>>   .txt is not good.
>>>>
>>>>  Why are not .txt attachments good? What do you propose to use?
>>>
>>>  I think I'm misunderstood that is good to have text output in a file but not useful if the file extension is ".txt"
>>>  Not comfortable use it for mutt / vim and diff.
>>>
>>>  I think needs to be an new extension, would be like this ".log" or ".syz" :)
>>
>> There is an fortunate limitation in the mailing system we currently
>> use -- it infers Content-Type from file extension. So if we do .syz,
>> it will do application/octet-stream.
>
> Hello Dmitry,
>
> I understand and thanks for detailed info, like it!


Double-checking the docs:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/mail/mail-with-headers-attachments

We can do .diff extension for patches. .diff is a standard extension,
looks reasonable for patches and will be a one-line change.
Does .diff sound better than .txt for patches?