From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from r3-19.sinamail.sina.com.cn (r3-19.sinamail.sina.com.cn [202.108.3.19]) (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 B57BD18C933 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2026 12:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=202.108.3.19 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783513526; cv=none; b=By9Cwbmd8b9BoB4jov+4JEOPv4qnH9k+V2tF+fQA6I/iFSZbXhIP6J1IQX5ochBSsjGM2nfnIqnV4oVGy51KRI6m53lbSQdNeubglHLRXnqTsObVMQIwK3y9WQE+k54lQKR8arxsL0S5C/q/TEd5/wBDacUucNwHJYWAZ4KS1bM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783513526; c=relaxed/simple; bh=AKyd0M7PX0+Nq7kB/sdVqHTbpIOw2fdLhtT49aNZTt0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=atxLkhcE27amd5kwSagGbiqHtFZFgFAQ3iS8/8cyJVcQKlO83+t4Y+eCyYrrcZZTzPN3HnRnE09TXAmFYwPvn5YMpqbVwMTMJJ11HFuzgH1Fj8ot1huBbzIR/MvJg7vMVUafHyfZ80P0EnjzkBonT9hrF6iG+1jDfFau+SSKN8E= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=sina.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=sina.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=sina.com header.i=@sina.com header.b=gTp9I8mM; arc=none smtp.client-ip=202.108.3.19 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=sina.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=sina.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=sina.com header.i=@sina.com header.b="gTp9I8mM" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sina.com; s=201208; t=1783513523; bh=mB6wN4edvu/uMC5EBoKZ1W1jvPayVvdoqYY59Yp1gfU=; h=From:Subject:Date:Message-ID; b=gTp9I8mMNM1e/757pg8qGHJfc+lJtLQAM4blbpeiW5cEsORml3+EYxGuFOWndbd18 dcXeX/I9oqTvSDnr1WNurWjHfaCZB0ktK46Tzp9swxNk7aRTXflVonRqtXALjDFRHw DL2o7xmaUHfKXA14BdtSBsQc6eswC5djPTAT1dpE= X-SMAIL-HELO: localhost.localdomain Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain)([114.249.62.144]) by sina.com (10.54.253.32) with ESMTP id 6A4E41870000073A; Wed, 8 Jul 2026 20:24:41 +0800 (CST) X-Sender: hdanton@sina.com X-Auth-ID: hdanton@sina.com Authentication-Results: sina.com; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=hdanton@sina.com; dkim=none header.i=none; dmarc=none action=none header.from=hdanton@sina.com X-SMAIL-MID: 3139324456874 X-SMAIL-UIID: 4D8F1B5FC0FF458489170AE260210F19-20260708-202441-1 From: Hillf Danton To: Yuan Tan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] VEGA: a syzbot-like workflow for LLM-found kernel bugs Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 20:24:28 +0800 Message-ID: <20260708122429.461-1-hdanton@sina.com> In-Reply-To: <20260708092247.4188498-1-yuantan098@gmail.com> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 02:22:47AM -0700, Yuan Tan wrote: > Hi all, > > We would like to ask for feedback on a proposed workflow for reporting Linux > kernel bugs found by an LLM-assisted code auditing tool that we have > been developing since earlier this year. > > Since February, we have been developing an LLM-driven kernel code auditing > tool called VEGA. It started as a side project, but the results became much > substantial than we expected: VEGA has found hundreds of valid bugs in Linux > kernel. > > That immediately created a practical problem: we do not want to dump a large > pile of bug reports onto mail lists and annoy the maintainers. > Given the syzbot reports, I think less than 11 true vega reports a day will not trigger a panic.