From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (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 A9D211CF285 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2024 10:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1725445617; cv=none; b=CsS9yNJqccrFpqlosh+2HPK+Ik76cVekSVDCj3gGr3YXxOOrnk0NeLsmzbVYXKFauv+25fTztiLozQquA4SbGMLTmso1F0GfY2r7yczX0tMYTcjeC7qAWKaam0xuDD/jTFp2KHzr8Qg9ckhtAnp3Eewda1r2I01tdKT+I5+GVF4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1725445617; c=relaxed/simple; bh=bQJ9op+hLchEjpljJs38I2S7x3RtwUsE4Hu2gQDMnSM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=RnRMcQttzpkoED6UXdsTCCDvRGAVsmpqS/Wa4ek1PzjTF71zDh+y2StAa9MuYiwewlp0qUc2YRqObqCyJ2kV9mDkGe/xJxp1tbTbYIPE2Tj8Teh3TeMXFamsFyypPfI73d/23fEJYhRALX7gh1m3501r5mb6CE/uiNMNJRtvuZI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=Re7RN21V; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="Re7RN21V" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 18396C4CEC2; Wed, 4 Sep 2024 10:26:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1725445617; bh=bQJ9op+hLchEjpljJs38I2S7x3RtwUsE4Hu2gQDMnSM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Re7RN21VKpNzfg2IjsZWRmj1n/WAXTktkWy9ql4oSc57cpaZNf5Gme0QBooxxG0wv +pCkaNSnpF9S0L8Ncv1gaeRDzTC/p+HMkm6hAh8T2pIgqxXHVA/Q4L4V0BcsTo9jNi WAQBe/ZMqeYxFDJdzdXldBqQpT5iLDmqwywK+kxc= Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 12:26:53 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Aleksandr Nogikh Cc: sashal@kernel.org, dvyukov@google.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Missing fix backports detected by syzbot Message-ID: <2024090428-exception-animation-aacc@gregkh> References: <20240904102455.911642-1-nogikh@google.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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