From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot <syzbot@kernel.org>,
adrianhuang0701@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn, oleg@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
syzbot@lists.linux.dev, tglx@kernel.org,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] signal: clear JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK for caller in zap_other_threads()
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 16:17:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026052159-conductor-suffice-4c81@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANp29Y5Cjy6k2vLp2+2O9FXwRXAmNP_ja6seORVXVQnrdUwH3g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 03:03:35PM +0200, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> (+Greg)
>
> Hi Christian and Oleg,
>
> Thanks for reviewing and accepting the patch!
>
> However, it seems that we first need to clarify how these types of
> patches should be submitted to ensure we don't violate the Linux
> kernel rules regarding AI-assisted contributions.
The documentation is very clear on this, what is missing?
> In a discussion under another patch by syzbot [1], Greg noted that
> syzbot cannot be listed as the author. The official documentation [2]
> isn't very specific about how to handle this exact scenario.
A "tool" can not sign off on a patch. That's always been the case, a
person has to take ownership and responsibility for it from a legal and
technical point of view. Again, nothing new here, been this way for a
very long time.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-21 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-21 9:05 [PATCH] signal: clear JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK for caller in zap_other_threads() syzbot
2026-05-21 12:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-05-21 12:40 ` Christian Brauner
2026-05-21 13:03 ` Aleksandr Nogikh
2026-05-21 13:17 ` Christian Brauner
2026-05-21 14:32 ` Aleksandr Nogikh
2026-05-21 14:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2026-05-21 14:30 ` Aleksandr Nogikh
2026-05-21 15:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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