Subject: Re: dangers of bots on the mailing lists was Re: divide error in ___bpf_prog_run

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:35:47 -0800

On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 17:46 -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 05:18:17PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 20:09 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > get_maintainer.pl, which is often not accurate
> > 
> > Examples please.
> > 
> 
> Well, the primary problem is that place the crash occurs is not necessarily
> responsible for the bug.  But, syzbot actually does have a file blacklist for
> exactly that reason; see
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/pkg/report/linux.go#L56

Which has no association to a problem with get_maintainer.

> And yes, get_maintainer.pl sometimes isn't accurate even if the offending code
> is correctly identified.  That's more of a community problem, e.g. people
> sometimes don't bother to remove themselves from MAINTAINERS when they quit
> maintaining, and sometimes people don't feel responsible enough for a file to
> add themselves to MAINTAINERS, even when in practice they are actually taking
> most of the patches to it through their tree.

Yup, not a get_maintainer problem.

There are more than 1800 sections and more than
1200 individual names in the MAINTAINERS file.

In practice, there are a few dozen maintainers
that are upstream patch paths.