Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:09:30 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: dangers of bots on the mailing lists was Re: divide error in ___bpf_prog_run |
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 04:21:13PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > If syzkaller can only test one tree than linux-next should be the one.
Well, there's been some controversy about that. The problem is that it's often not clear if this is long-standing bug, or a bug which is in a particular subsystem tree --- and if so, *which* subsystem tree, etc. So it gets blasted to linux-kernel, and to get_maintainer.pl, which is often not accurate --- since the location of the crash doesn't necessarily point out where the problem originated, and hence who should look at the syzbot report. And so this has caused some.... irritation.
> There is some value of testing stable trees, but any developer > will first ask for a reproducer in the latest, so usefulness of > reporting such bugs will be limited.
What I suggested was to test Linus's tree, and then when a problem is found, and syzkaller has a reliable repro, to *then* try to see if it *also* shows up in the LTS kernels.
- Ted
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