Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Fix scan ioapic use-before-initialization

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Wed Jan 02 2019 - 08:43:42 EST


On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:13 PM Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 10:43:11AM +0100, 'Dmitry Vyukov' via syzkaller wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 6:00 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Nobody reads the kernel mailing list directly - there's just too much traffic.
> >
> > As the result bug reports and patches got lots and this is bad and it
> > would be useful to stop it from happening and there are known ways for
> > this.
>
> What are the "known ways"? The only effective way I can think of is to
> setup personal email filters for specific topics, and while this is
> useful and something I do myself, it requires a lot of up front work.
>
> I don't think it's realistic to expect others to be doing this
> instead of just subscribing to the topic lists.

Hi Joey,

I mean using a bug tracking system.

E.g. here are all open KASAN bugs regardless of when they were filed:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&component=Sanitizers&list_id=1010485&product=Memory%20Management

Here are all open syzkaller bugs:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/issues