linux-kernel - Re: what trees/branches to test on syzbot

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Date:   Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:17:21 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: what trees/branches to test on syzbot

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:36 PM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> On 2018/01/22 22:32, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >
> > FTR I've just dropped linux-next and mmots from syzbot.
>
> I hope that we can test linux-next on syzbot, as a tree for testing debug
> printk() patches.

I think it would be lovely to get linux-next back eventually, but it
sounds like it's just too noisy right now, and yes, we should have a
baseline for the standard tree first.

But once there's a "this is known for the baseline", I think adding
linux-next back in and then maybe even have linux-next simply just
kick out trees that cause problems would be a good idea.

Right now linux-next only kicks things out based on build issues (or
extreme merge issues), afaik. But it *would* be good to also have
things like syzbot do quality control on linux-next.

Because the more things get found and fixed before they even hit my
tree, the better.

                Linus