linux-kernel - Re: Reminder: 99 open syzbot bugs in net subsystem

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:52:54 +0200
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        i.maximets@...sung.com, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Reminder: 99 open syzbot bugs in net subsystem

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:37 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:

> A huge number of valid open bugs are not being fixed, which is a fact.  We can
> argue about what words to use to describe this situation, but it doesn't change
> the situation itself.
>
> What is your proposed solution?

syzbot sends emails, plenty  of them, with many wrong bisection
results, increasing the noise.

If nobody is interested, I am not sure sending copies of them
repeatedly will be of any help.

Maybe a simple monthly reminder with one URL to go to the list of bugs
would be less intrusive.