linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix mmap

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Date:   Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:13:11 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
        Jeffrey E Altman <jaltman@...istor.com>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix mmap

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 1:22 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Could you apply this patch please?  Note the odd email address in the
> Reported-by and Tested-by fields.  That's an attempt to note Auristor's
> internal testcase ID for their tracking purposes.  Is this a reasonable way
> to do it?  It's kind of modelled on what syzbot does.

Yeah, this looks sane to me.

I don't like bare bug tracking IDs that don't tell anybody else
anything, but the "embedding it in the email" trick means that it now
(a) gives a contact for it so that it contains meaningful information
and (b) also acts a "namespace" for the testcase ID.

Applied.

            Linus