Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752773AbeADLJs (ORCPT + 1 other); Thu, 4 Jan 2018 06:09:48 -0500 Received: from mail-pg0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:42191 "EHLO mail-pg0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752159AbeADLJr (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2018 06:09:47 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBouBFTRD2dSHBAZDbupez99kqTi7VsXK2np4nfnCzBvmw/+66U1bkANbz8JEjpP6GIRx+2ZPprdBINZXMoTe4fY= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180104095628.GA4407@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <20180104092552.GA991@amd> <1515058705.7875.25.camel@gmx.de> <20180104095628.GA4407@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> From: Dmitry Vyukov Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 12:09:26 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: LKML admins (syzbot emails are not delivered) To: Pavel Machek Cc: Mike Galbraith , LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , syzkaller Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 10:25 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: >> > Hi! >> > > >> > > Some of syzbot emails don't appear on LKML mailing lists, while they >> > > were mailed as any other emails. Here are few examples: >> > > >> > > "KASAN: use-after-free Read in rds_tcp_dev_event" >> > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/nEeIAsNLWL4/1GzamOmRAwAJ >> > > >> > > "general protection fault in __wake_up_common" >> > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/4TrrZ0bIViw/rBcYLUJHAgAJ >> > > >> > > Does anybody know how to get in contact with real people behind LKML >> > > and/or bugzilla? >> > >> > Not delivering syzbot emails might be good thing? >> >> Nah, the thing is finding and reporting bugs just like a human would, >> it just doesn't need sleep etc, so sometimes reports more than humans >> can keep up with. It needs a smarter brother.. but then again, maybe >> not, if bots start fixing things too, a lot of meatware hackers would >> have to go find real jobs. > > Sending random, unrepeatable Oopses to lkml is not what humans would > do, and perhaps not something bots should do, either. Hi Pavel, I've answered this question here in full detail. In short, this is useful and actionable. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/2nVn_XkVhEE/GjjfISejCgAJ