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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Dave Chinner <dgc@kernel.org>, Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>,
	Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
	Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@gmail.com>,
	Rafal Ostrowski <rafal.ostrowski@amd.com>,
	Likun Gao <Likun.Gao@amd.com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix out-of-bounds write from crafted btree root numrecs during log recovery
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:43:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cxsto38m.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <auJ2jgIIh8e_JJwn@dread>

Dave Chinner <dgc@kernel.org> writes:

> Unless you know how to fix the discovered problem correctly, don't
> send what your LLM proposed for review. It will be garbage, and all
> that will do is annoy whoever has to review it. Just report the bug,
> let the subsystem developers fix it.

Just to be obnoxious...this runs counter to the advice we have in
Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst, where reporters are requested
to include a proposed fix as well.  It seems we're sending a bit of a
mixed message...

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-28 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-27 15:17 [PATCH] xfs: fix out-of-bounds write from crafted btree root numrecs during log recovery Henry Martin
2026-10-28 22:26 ` Dave Chinner
2026-10-28 22:43   ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-10-28 23:34     ` Dave Chinner
2026-10-29  2:35       ` Theodore Tso
2026-10-29 21:39         ` Dave Chinner
2026-10-29 14:37       ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-10-29 20:59         ` Dave Chinner

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