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On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:34:01 +0100
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> >> Outside of the bugs being considered as considered as security issues,
> >> the bugs syzbot finds are generally things that don't affect anyone in
> >> practice.  So are very low on the priority of things to get fixed.  
> 
> Not sure why are you saying this, but syzbot has found lots of
> hundreds of use-after-free's, out-of-bounds, information leaks,
> deadlocks, vm escapes, etc. They have very direct stability and
> security impact.

Agreed - there may be some UI and presentation issues but it's found some
really nasty little bugs.

Alan