netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/9p: validate fds in p9_fd

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:24:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     asmadeus@...ewreck.org
Cc:     hch@....de, nazard@...ar.ca, ericvh@...il.com, lucho@...kov.net,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+e6f77e16ff68b2434a2c@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/9p: validate fds in p9_fd_open

From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:47:56 +0200

> It's honestly just a warn on something that would fail anyway so I'd
> rather let it live in -next first, I don't get why syzbot is so verbose
> about this - it sent a mail when it found a c repro and one more once it
> bisected the commit yesterday but it should not be sending more?

I honestly find it hard to understand the resistence to fixing the
warning in mainline.

I merge such fixes aggressively.