Re: LKML admins (syzbot emails are not delivered)

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jan 04 2018 - 06:20:28 EST


On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 12:04:34PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> The problem is that it's not _me_, it's a computer program which uses
> some mail delivery system which I don't have full visibility into.

But you, or someone, should have access to that email address to see any
responses sent to it. If no one can, then it's just a spam bot and if I
were vger's postmaster, I would blacklist it as well :)

Good luck!

greg k-h