> But forward bisection (when bug is fixed) unfortunately won't work > because these commits are not connected to HEAD. And forward bisection > is very important, otherwise who will bring order to all these > hundreds of open bugs? > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/
Bisection isn't so important when you are trying to close bugs that got fixed, with a note that it's no longer reproducable. It might mean the reproducer broke but it also stops you drowning and it tells a user that they might as well try the new one and see if still breaks thus collecting the information needed. True it's nice to know what commit may have magically fixed it but it's not essential. Further more once you see a bug is fixed even in -next you can later run the reproducer against an actual release to make sure it's still fixed there, and bisect between previous release and that release to find a mainline commit id if it's a single fix point. Alan