linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][PATCH] bug: Exclude non-BUG/WARN exceptions from report

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Message-ID: <CAGXu5jKCsWvRRZRhdcFdDTipjWZcL_UO6jekH2R-_C3f8Mi1-A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Mar 2018 12:22:10 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] bug: Exclude non-BUG/WARN exceptions from report_bug()

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Which brings me to my point: maybe we should encourage people to make
> this "for whom the patch tolls" information more obvious and more
> explicit. It wasn't obvious in the first submission (yes, I saw the
> patch then too), and even in this second one I actually initially
> didn't notice this one line in between the commit message and the
> actual patch. Maybe I get too much email, but I bet _that_ is very
> true of others too.

Yeah, a lot of people miss the "comment" line. I try to use it
sparingly, but really that only contributes to it not getting noticed.
;)

> The obvious place to encourage people to do it is in the [PATCH] part
> in the subject, ie something like [PATCH/mm] or similar if you expect
> it to go through Andrew's mm tree, or [PATCH/x86] it you expect the
> x86 maintainers to pick it up. Or [PATCH/linus] if it's something that
> you really expect to bypass all maintainers (why? I'd prefer for that
> to then be explained).

This may be redundant for some cases where the target is already in
the commit subject prefix: "x86/locking: Fixes foo", but I regularly
touch code without super-clear maintainership, or end up in places
where it spans multiple areas (e.g. this patch was a fix for an
x86-tree commit but the fix only touches the generic bug area, whee).

But for non-"obvious" cases, I like this idea; it could help me when
I'm sending to lots of different trees.

> But maybe other potential patch recipients would hate that kind of
> extra mess in the subject line?

My question would be, will the existing automated systems that parse
the "PATCH" subject deal with a non-whitespaced suffix like this?

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security