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

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Message-ID: <CACT4Y+ZggEM7c9M1GLUNQPWhi5v+TknW0QKABeaqia93M_JCxg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:34:01 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.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 Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
>> Outside of the bugs being considered as considered as security issues,
>> the bugs syzbot finds are generally things that don't affect anyone in
>> practice.  So are very low on the priority of things to get fixed.

Not sure why are you saying this, but syzbot has found lots of
hundreds of use-after-free's, out-of-bounds, information leaks,
deadlocks, vm escapes, etc. They have very direct stability and
security impact.