Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:54:39 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: LKML admins (syzbot emails are not delivered)
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Hi!

> > *Snort*
> >
> > If the information to solve an issue is not in the Oops syzbot is
> > useless.
>=20
> Hi Eric
>=20
> That's true. But maintainers of the subsystem is in the best position
> to judge that. For that they need to see the report.

Unless they are already overloaded by better quality reports.

> > Further there is no place in the syzbot process to test fixes.
>=20
> Please elaborate.
> Kernel developer who fixes the bugs, tests it the same way as he/she
> does for any other bugs. There is really nothing in syzbot that
> prevents you from testing.

Well, normally people are interested in the bugs they report, and thus
willing to test the patches. Your bot.. is not interested.

									Pavel
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