Re: [RFC] syzbot process

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Thu Dec 28 2017 - 05:15:54 EST


On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2017-12-21 15:52 GMT+03:00 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Any other proposals, thoughts, ideas?
>>
>
> a) Assume that patches send in replies to the bug report are fixes.
>
> b) Almost the same as your "syzbot-fix: HASH" proposal, but slightly
> closer to normal kernel development workflow.
> Add hash/bug id into the From field of email, i.e.
>
> instead of
> From: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> make it
> From: syzbot-{hash} <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> And ask to include "Reported-by: syzbot-{hash}
> <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" tag in a changelog.
>
> a) doesn't exclude b) or "#syz: fix " emails, and vise versa

I've implemented this idea (with Linus improvements on top). Thanks
for the suggestion.