Re: LKML admins (syzbot emails are not delivered)

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Jan 04 2018 - 04:38:37 EST


On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 10:25 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> >
> > 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?
>
> Not delivering syzbot emails might be good thing?

Nah, the thing is finding and reporting bugs just like a human would,
it just doesn't need sleep etc, so sometimes reports more than humans
can keep up with.  It needs a smarter brother.. but then again, maybe
not, if bots start fixing things too, a lot of meatware hackers would
have to go find real jobs.

> You claimed you generate so many of them that you can't even check
> them by hand, so what makes you think thousands of lkml readers want
> to delete them by hand?

Mail filters have existed for untold ages :)

-Mike