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

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Message-ID: <20180124160438.0da2b219@alans-desktop>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:04:38 +0000
From:   Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        "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 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:34:01 +0100
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:

> 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.

Agreed - there may be some UI and presentation issues but it's found some
really nasty little bugs.

Alan