linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] WARNING in do

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Date:   Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:36:23 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        syzbot <syzbot+919c5a9be8433b8bf201@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] WARNING in do_mkdirat

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 09:47:16AM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:

> > maintainer time is expensive.  So by not improving syzbot in a way
> > that really shouldn't be all that difficult, the syzbot maintainers is
> > disrespectiving the time of the upstream maintainers.
> 
> Are upstream maintainers prefering to spend weeks and months creating
> ext4 beatles for example over taking a couple of hours scanning the
> syzbot reports like this one? Why does the bot kick you if you have a
> clean butt? Why are usb people irrelevant in this case?

And to continue with the rethorical questions: has anyone bothered to
inform you that you are an obnoxious cunt?

*plonk*