linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] syzbot process

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Date:   Thu, 28 Dec 2017 11:15:17 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.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 21, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com> wrote:
> 2017-12-21 15:52 GMT+03:00 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>:
>
>> Any other proposals, thoughts, ideas?
>>
>
> a) Assume that patches send in replies to the bug report are fixes.
>
> b) Almost the same as your "syzbot-fix: HASH"  proposal, but slightly
> closer to normal kernel development workflow.
>      Add hash/bug id into the From field of email, i.e.
>
>      instead of
>      From: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
>
>      make it
>      From: syzbot-{hash} <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
>
>      And ask to include "Reported-by: syzbot-{hash}
> <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>" tag in a changelog.
>
> a) doesn't exclude b) or "#syz: fix " emails, and vise versa

I've implemented this idea (with Linus improvements on top). Thanks
for the suggestion.