Re: LKML admins (syzbot emails are not delivered)

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jan 04 2018 - 04:23:28 EST


On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:09:16AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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?
>
> I am trying to understand why this happens, but failed so far (it does
> not do any obviously prohibited stuff, and replies to these emails are
> delivered).

You should get a bounce notice from vger if the email is being rejected.
If not, you might be on the spam filter list, which is listed on vger,
did you check that?

> I tried to use autoanswer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (which is
> referenced from http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html), but it
> now always return:
>
> 554 5.0.0 Hi [209.85.192.182], unresolvable address:
> <autoanswer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; nosuchuser; autoanswer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

autoanswer is not for admin requests.

> I failed to find any admin email referenced anywhere.

Look a bit harder, like at the bottom of this page:
http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

:)

> On a related note, I also tried to contact bugzilla admins via
> rt.linuxfoundation.org. But there is complete silence. Does anybody
> know how to get it touch with these people?

Did you get an answer back from the rt system? If not, it did not go
through, and the help address might have changed. I can dig it up if
so...

thanks,

greg k-h