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Significant raise of reports

Posted Mar 31, 2026 17:11 UTC (Tue) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)

Parent article: Vulnerability Research Is Cooked (sockpuppet.org)

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Significant raise of reports

Posted Mar 31, 2026 17:31 UTC (Tue)
by gf2p8affineqb (subscriber, #124723)
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How does this compare to Syzbot? I see there are 1300 open issues right now on its dashboard.

Significant raise of reports

Posted Mar 31, 2026 17:49 UTC (Tue)
by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962)
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The easiest way to get attention to the backlog of syzbot reports (but absolute worst way to overload maintainers) is using them in an exploit chain. I expect that to happen pretty soon (or maybe it is already happening).
It’s the old method of framing bugs as security bugs to get attention.

Significant raise of reports

Posted Mar 31, 2026 19:28 UTC (Tue)
by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
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I don’t know how long this pace will last. I suspect that bugs are reported faster than they are written, so we could in fact be purging a long backlog (and I hope so).

This makes sense, and the key way of making sure the bug reports are primarily about purging a backlog is to apply the same kind of scrutiny to code before it ever gets merged. Basically, the key is to use AI to improve code quality (both already merged and pre-merge) rather than just spamming as much new stuff as possible. This matches up very well with the article on Andrew Morton trying to make Sashiko a required part of submissions to the memory management subsystem.

Significant raise of reports

Posted Mar 31, 2026 20:36 UTC (Tue)
by fw (subscriber, #26023)
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Significant raise of reports

Posted Mar 31, 2026 21:16 UTC (Tue)
by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)
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