From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30787284B29 for ; Thu, 21 May 2026 14:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779375600; cv=none; b=Aa0TNWuIRomE5b1agKfEV3wKanaU1611P6SfZyr92rkYomaw+GC4ypYIK0LGaNzgA1txYOd3FiA5kOrBhKcAwK12dosOoGcuozLmy1ggDhidBrX1W+dCJMjPDfYrsCwIA26AlOUAsPeh48DBw50+Kf+Lb5yOVLU+MgNFV1QSy/k= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779375600; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Ow/pF9wYbP4smfbmonFE132HA6W6bBdV03i2gX5JhcA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=eP1CqtpthZJjafu2FH+Y+eswv7y77GdwOhg1tehZJUTYBd8UbeSewxaUVK4uVfGy5Oeb83OG5XuukBKuMkKjOFWBG7ovNqpwCFbqbfeU1dgV7I1W8KbaDKdMe7l1dp3YFwoDUpkm077PbCJP4Q8JjK0vBuFIxiIUen9TT53CKH0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=Qz2glykq; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="Qz2glykq" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id 15A7D1F00A3B; Thu, 21 May 2026 14:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A8E201F000E9; Thu, 21 May 2026 14:59:58 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1779375599; bh=a9oTzhmU/B+PGGuHwEQ1ZB9dv9hsVLLdlaadODUv2rY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=Qz2glykqN6tNOBTXqq6iP8zjexaMD04I9gNdk/VMDt7QeF4Dm/IJnoH34/d69D6KI yhWuXEsvblcKwDA0X+gdEdjmuKygmoShmtuHnEvJ71zs60UEZFUfZJO0AS9/bEtIpn 1ZPKqhfQdlYAl4wN07TIAkuLp3pvlIc/VvtN2Cjs= Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 17:00:02 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Aleksandr Nogikh Cc: Christian Brauner , syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzbot , adrianhuang0701@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn, oleg@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, syzbot@lists.linux.dev, tglx@kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov , Marco Elver Subject: Re: [PATCH] signal: clear JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK for caller in zap_other_threads() Message-ID: <2026052150-header-bridged-03c8@gregkh> References: <36638f2b-6f91-4e33-b630-fd7045eebc84@mail.kernel.org> <20260521-kultur-zahnpasta-f09198836179@brauner> <2026052159-conductor-suffice-4c81@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: syzbot@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 04:30:24PM +0200, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 4:17 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 03:03:35PM +0200, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote: > > > (+Greg) > > > > > > Hi Christian and Oleg, > > > > > > Thanks for reviewing and accepting the patch! > > > > > > However, it seems that we first need to clarify how these types of > > > patches should be submitted to ensure we don't violate the Linux > > > kernel rules regarding AI-assisted contributions. > > > > The documentation is very clear on this, what is missing? > > > > > In a discussion under another patch by syzbot [1], Greg noted that > > > syzbot cannot be listed as the author. The official documentation [2] > > > isn't very specific about how to handle this exact scenario. > > > > A "tool" can not sign off on a patch. That's always been the case, a > > person has to take ownership and responsibility for it from a legal and > > technical point of view. Again, nothing new here, been this way for a > > very long time. > > The documentation was very clear that the `Signed-off-by` tag must > belong to a real person and these 2 patches actually did have such a > Signed-off-by. So, then you end up with an "authorless" signed-off-by patch, something that makes everyone sit up and go "what just broke!". > We've just updated syzbot to also add a `From: ` tag with the > name/email of the person who pre-reviewed the patch and approved > sending it to LKML. Then they are the ones taking responsibility for a tool-generated patch. Good luck with that, and be prepared for people to just blindly reject them... thanks, greg k-h