netdev - Re: syzcaller patch postings...

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Message-ID: <CACT4Y+b+jrCapwmx1V7w91=MbaVgNSrDdps9yrJWfxDeh2L=vw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:59:23 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: syzcaller patch postings...

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> wrote:
> Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 16:47 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> >> I have to mention this now before it gets out of control.
>> >>
>> >> I would like to ask that syzkaller stop posting the patch it is
>> >> testing when it posts to netdev.
>> >
>> > There is an open issue on this topic:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/google/syzkaller/issues/526
>> >
>> > The current behaviour is that syzbot replies to all get_maintainer.pl
>> > recipients after testing a patch, regardless of the test submission
>> > recipient list, the idea was instead to respect such list.
>>
>>
>> Hi David, Florian, Paolo,
>>
>> Didn't realize it triggers patchwork. This wasn't intentional, sorry.
>>
>> Do I understand it correctly that if syzbot replies to the CC list
>> that was in the testing request, it will resolve the problem? So if
>> netdev wasn't in CC, it will not be added to CC.
>
> Yes, thats at least my expected/desired behaviour.
> This way I can even CC some other person (maintainer, reporter etc)
> to have them informed about test result too.
>
>> I will go and fix it now.
>
> Thank you Dmitry!


This now should be fixed by
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/commit/7daaa06d53f0f496aa1a87656d16c81ebff37f73
I've also added a note to the doc referenced from bug report emails:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/commit/7daaa06d53f0f496aa1a87656d16c81ebff37f73#diff-5b3b5ff5f03b01e1d31ec93aafd2f3d5