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

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:06:54 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, 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 Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 09:31:26AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
>> > I just checked a recent report from the Syzbot, and it's not fixed.
>> > The raw.log file still uses a Content-Type of
>> > Application/Octet-stream.  Worse the reproducer C source file has a
>> > content type of Application/Octet-stream instead of the much more sane
>> > Application/text.  <Face palm>
>>
>>
>> I will look into using a different mailing system which allows more
>> control over email contents.
>> A quick fix for raw.log will be to rename it to raw.log.txt. Not sure
>> if text/plain repro.c.txt is better than application/octet-stream
>> repro.c...
>
> My personal opinion is that if there is no way to force the content
> type except by using magic extensions --- which is super-surprising to
> me; that seems like a broken API and a feature request bug should be
> filed against the relevant API --- using repro.c.txt would be the best
> of bad alternatives.  Someone is going to have to exit to a shell to
> compile the repro, and renaming the filename isn't a big deal.  The
> Mail User Agent I use (mutt) allows me to specify the directory to
> save the file, and gives me the opportunity to edit the filename,
> before I save it.  So at least for me, it really isn't a big deal for
> you to use repro.c.txt.

Good. I've made such change, it's now raw.log.txt and repro.c.txt:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/commit/afcb994770d7e0f4b88c623bec76fbdce57d3910

I've also mailed a change to appengine that supports *.c, *.log and
*.patch as text/plain extensions. There does not seem to be any major
objects to it, but it will probably take some time to be deployed in
prod. After that I will rename them back.