Re: [RFC] VEGA: a syzbot-like workflow for LLM-found kernel bugs

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 7/8/26 11:22 AM, Yuan Tan wrote:
> The rough idea
> ==============
> 
> VEGA would have a public dashboard, similar to syzbot, and would
> send selected bug reports to the relevant kernel mailing lists.
> 
> The goal is to send reports that contain enough information for maintainers
> or other developers to pick up, understand, reproduce and fix the issue.
> 
> For each public report, we expect to include:
> 
>   - a description of the bug
>   - the tested kernel tree and commit
>   - the kernel config and environment
>   - the crash log
>   - a minimized user-space reproducer
>   - the suspected introducing commit
>   - a suggested fix patch
> 
> The suggested fix patch is meant to reduce maintainer burden. It still need
> human review, but hopefully it can save a lot time from building a patch
> from scratch.

Thanks for sharing. This sounds very interesting to me, modulo final
impact on the ML - overall load is severely increased since the LLM era,
while the maintainers pool not so much.

A few notes on top of my head:
- the amount/rate of reports is critical. The higher the rate, the
better need to be the reproducer and the suggested patch.
- the crash log should include the decoded stack trace.
- IIRC syzbot reports sharing is [always] human
moderated/limited/controlled. I think that is the correct default and I
hope it should be possible for you, too.
- it's not entirely clear to me who exactly is 'you' and would
appreciate more info about that.
- it would be great to discuss this topic in person, i.e. in the
upcoming NetDev.

Thanks,

Paolo