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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc: sashal@kernel.org, dvyukov@google.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Missing fix backports detected by syzbot
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 12:26:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024090428-exception-animation-aacc@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240904102455.911642-1-nogikh@google.com>

On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 12:24:55PM +0200, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> There are also a lot of syzbot-detected fix commits that did not apply
> cleanly, but the conflicts seem to be quite straightforward to resolve
> manually. Could you please share what the current process is with
> respect to such fix patches? For example, are you sending emails
> asking developers to adjust the non-applied patch (if they want), or
> is it the other way around -- you expect the authors to be proactive
> and send the adjusted patch versions themselves?

We expect someone to send us patches, we aren't going to be able to do
it ourselves :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-04 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-04 10:24 Missing fix backports detected by syzbot Aleksandr Nogikh
2024-09-04 10:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2024-09-05  8:04 ` Greg KH
2024-09-05  8:12 ` Greg KH
2024-09-06 14:55   ` Aleksandr Nogikh
2024-09-06 17:23     ` Greg KH

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