linux-kernel - Re: Who is looking at CVEs to prevent them?

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Message-ID: <651ee4e5-b298-606e-938f-0e49fdf295c3@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2023 08:52:33 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>, oe-kbuild@...ts.linux.dev,
        lkp@...el.com
Cc:     Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Masami Ichikawa <masami.ichikawa@...aclelinux.com>,
        cip-dev <cip-dev@...ts.cip-project.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lwn@....net, smatch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Who is looking at CVEs to prevent them?



On 3/7/23 12:53, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 12:42:03PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> Why do you keep adding linux-mm to the Cc list of random threads that are
>> not about MM?
> 
> That's kbuild-bot stuff.  The kbuild-bot generates those emails and I
> just look them over and hit send.

Sorry, wasn't clear that I was asking Hillf who did the Cc on this
thread and other threads (not only kbuild bot threads).

> I don't why the kbuild bot CCs linux-mm either...  Let me ask the devs
> about that.  A lot of the -mm warning are correct but just the CC list
> is weird.

Sure, it's fine if a bug is suspected to be mm related that linux-mm is
Cc'd, even if it turns out a wrong guess in the end.

> The kbuild-bot stuff is really nice for me.  The kbuild-bot doesn't use
> the cross function DB so everything is local to the function and easy to
> review.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
>