Re: Reminder: 99 open syzbot bugs in net subsystem

Eric Dumazet
2019-07-24T06:39:11Z

On 7/24/19 3:38 AM, Eric Biggers wrote:
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>
> Of the currently open syzbot reports against the upstream kernel, I've manually
> marked 99 of them as possibly being bugs in the net subsystem. This category
> only includes the networking bugs that I couldn't assign to a more specific
> component (bpf, xfrm, bluetooth, tls, tipc, sctp, wireless, etc.). I've listed
> these reports below, sorted by an algorithm that tries to list first the reports
> most likely to be still valid, important, and actionable.
>
> Of these 99 bugs, 17 were seen in mainline in the last week.
>
> Of these 99 bugs, 4 were bisected to commits from the following people:
>
> Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
> Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>
> If you believe a bug is no longer valid, please close the syzbot report by
> sending a '#syz fix', '#syz dup', or '#syz invalid' command in reply to the
> original thread, as explained at https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#status
>
> If you believe I misattributed a bug to the net subsystem, please let me know,
> and if possible forward the report to the correct people or mailing list.
>

Some of the bugs have been fixed already, before syzbot found them.

Why force human to be gentle to bots and actually replying to them ?

I usually simply wait that syzbot is finding the bug does not repro anymore,
but now if you send these emails, we will have even more pressure on us.