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

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:09:51 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     eric.dumazet@...il.com, dvyukov@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        fw@...len.de, i.maximets@...sung.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        dsahern@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: Reminder: 99 open syzbot bugs in net subsystem

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 01:09:28PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:37:12 -0700
> 
> > We can argue about what words to use to describe this situation, but
> > it doesn't change the situation itself.
> 
> And we should argue about those words because it matters to humans and
> effects how they feel, and humans ultimately fix these bugs.
> 
> So please stop with the hyperbole.
> 
> Thank you.

Okay, there are 151 bugs that syzbot saw on the mainline Linux kernel in the
last 7 days (90.1% with reproducers).  Of those, 59 were reported over 3 months
ago (89.8% with reproducers).  Of those, 12 were reported over a year ago (83.3%
with reproducers).

No opinion on whether those are small/medium/large numbers, in case it would
hurt someone's feelings.

These numbers do *not* include bugs that are still valid but weren't seen on
mainline in last 7 days, e.g.:

- Bugs that are seen only rarely, so by chance weren't seen in last 7 days.
- Bugs only in linux-next and/or subsystem branches.
- Bugs that were seen in mainline more than 7 days ago, and then only on
  linux-next or subsystem branch in last 7 days.
- Bugs that stopped being seen due to a change in syzkaller.
- Bugs that stopped being seen due to a change in kernel config.
- Bugs that stopped being seen due to other environment changes such as kernel
  command line parameters.
- Bugs that stopped being seen due to a kernel change that hid the bug but
  didn't actually fix it, i.e. still reachable in other ways.

Eric