netdev - Re: dangers of bots on the mailing lists was Re: divide error in ___bpf_prog

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:45:16 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+48340bb518e88849e2e3@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: dangers of bots on the mailing lists was Re: divide error in ___bpf_prog_run

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> On Fri 2018-01-12 17:58:01, syzbot wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> syzkaller hit the following crash on
>> 19d28fbd306e7ae7c1acf05c3e6968b56f0d196b
>
> What an useful way to describe kernel version.
>
> Could we get reasonable subject line? 4.15-rc7: prefix would be nice
> if it is on mainline,

Yes, I guess. I am all for useful improvements.
What exactly is reasonable subject line? And how it can be extracted
for an arbitrary kernel tree?


> net-next: subject if it happens only on next
> tree, etc.

Unfortunately this information can't be reliably obtained for any
kernel bug (due to the nature of kernel, not due to syzbot).