Re: [PATCH v6] serial: 8250: fix use-after-free in IRQ chain handling
From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 09:28:53 EST
On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 09:15:19PM +0800, Wang Zhaolong wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> >
> > As I said before, I'm not going to take either until you all can agree.
> >
> > And yes, a co-developed-by does require a signed-off-by. Without you
> > all agreeing, none of this is going to be acceptable, sorry.
> >
>
> Understood.
>
> I do not agree to a Co-developed-by tag with Jing/Qiliang. My v1 was posted
> before that series and already contained the functional lock move. I
> reviewed/tested parts of the other series against my reproducer, but I do not
> consider this a jointly developed patch.
>
> I do not require my patch to be the one accepted upstream. If another version
> is used, I am fine with keeping Reported-by and a Link to my original patch,
> and I can retest the final version against my QEMU ttyS1/ttyS3 shared IRQ
> reproducer if needed. But I do not provide my Signed-off-by for a
> Co-developed-by tag.
>
> > Also, all of these really look like they were created/found/whatever by
> > a LLM, which is not being documented, and for that reason alone I think
> > I need to reject all of these until that is properly addressed.
> >
>
> Regarding LLM assistance, my v1 explicitly included:
>
> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
>
> That tag was dropped in later revisions while refreshing the patch. The bug itself
> was found and reproduced by me, not by an LLM. I used the tool to help refine
> the patch text and write the reproducer/test code, then reviewed the code
> myself and validated the result with the QEMU ttyS1/ttyS3 shared IRQ
> reproducer before submitting. I also spent time testing/reviewing the other
> series; for example, one earlier revision did not pass the reproducer, which I
> reported in that thread。
That's fine, but you still need to keep the Assisted-by: tag. For that
reason alone I will not take this.
> I understand this may mean my patch is not taken. I am fine with that. I do not want
> to spend more community time on this dispute.
>
> I will stop here and leave the technical record as-is. I hope the regression
> can still be fixed upstream without spending more time on the dispute.
Hopefully someone sends a fix for this in a format that can be
accepted...
thanks,
greg k-h