Hi Ted, On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 09:02:49AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:44:25AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > > syzbot asks to provide fixing commit in a particular format (and on 1 > > line, otherwise not possible to parse back). > > > > It sent this yesterday: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=syzkaller-bugs/IZZUu-BobtI/xAkxm6H4EQAJ > > This is Shuah's reply, not the syzbot original message. Looks like > you cut and pasted the same URL twice? > > The correct URL is: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=syzkaller-bugs/IZZUu-BobtI/wQdqUSHuEQAJ > > .. and it looks like what Syzbot sent was already line-wrapped: > > > If the result looks correct, please mark the bug fixed by replying with: > > > >#syz fix: usb: usbip: Fix BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in > >vhci_hub_control() > > So I don't think you can blame this on how Shuah replied, or how > Mozilla handled things. It looks like either Syzbot or more likely, > GMail on its outgoing path "added value" by line-wrapping the message, > probably because of the following MIME setting: > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Flowing text lines and deleting spaces is always, ALWAYS, a bad idea > when sending plain text. In this case, it wasn't just a patch that > got corrupted, but the instructions from Syzbot, which it appears > Shuah followed faithfully. :-) > > IBM handled this problem by standing up an open source e-mail system > because Lotus Notes couldn't be fixed. If we can't fix GMail, then > David Miller may be right, and e-mail may be doomed. (I don't like > that answer myself, since so far all of the alternatives seem to be > categorically worse for our use case, but...)
Since when did we decide to let Google dictate what tools were are or are not allowed to use ? :-) If gmail isn't suitable as an e-mail provider, we should be vocal about it. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Patchwork mailing list Patchwork@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/patchwork