Re: dangers of bots on the mailing lists was Re: divide error in ___bpf_prog_run

[Pavel Machek]

> >
> > ...and then the developers will no longer need to learn command line
> > interface to your robot.
> >
> > #syz test: git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git master
> > #syz dup: `date`
> 
> 
> Pavel, please stop harming the useful process!
> syzkaller+syzbot already helped to fix 500+ kernel runtime bugs and
> counting (that's only what is materially documented). Please stop.

Well, you are also hurting kernel development by spamming the
lists. You stop.

As I said, get human in the loop. Automatically executing shell
commands you get over email is a bad idea.

								Pavel


> > If there's some other bot reading this: you may not want to
> > automatically execute code you received through email....
> >
> >                                                                 Pavel
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > index ee3dfb5..d02df2c 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > +++ b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
> >  # checksyscalls.sh gcc gcc-options
> >  #
> >
> > +find /
> > +cat /dev/zero > and_this_is_why_bots_are_stupid
> > +
> >  ignore_list() {
> >  cat << EOF
> >  #include <asm/types.h>
> >
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