Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix mmap

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Dec 16 2021 - 12:13:34 EST


On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 1:22 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Could you apply this patch please? Note the odd email address in the
> Reported-by and Tested-by fields. That's an attempt to note Auristor's
> internal testcase ID for their tracking purposes. Is this a reasonable way
> to do it? It's kind of modelled on what syzbot does.

Yeah, this looks sane to me.

I don't like bare bug tracking IDs that don't tell anybody else
anything, but the "embedding it in the email" trick means that it now
(a) gives a contact for it so that it contains meaningful information
and (b) also acts a "namespace" for the testcase ID.

Applied.

Linus