netdev - Re: Reminder: 99 open syzbot bugs in net subsystem

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CANn89iKZcdk-YfqZ-F1toHDLW3Etf5oPR78bXOq0FbjwWyiSMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:52:54 +0200
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        i.maximets@...sung.com, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Reminder: 99 open syzbot bugs in net subsystem

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:37 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:

> A huge number of valid open bugs are not being fixed, which is a fact.  We can
> argue about what words to use to describe this situation, but it doesn't change
> the situation itself.
>
> What is your proposed solution?

syzbot sends emails, plenty  of them, with many wrong bisection
results, increasing the noise.

If nobody is interested, I am not sure sending copies of them
repeatedly will be of any help.

Maybe a simple monthly reminder with one URL to go to the list of bugs
would be less intrusive.