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>Nowadays, people working on XFS seem to spend most of their time on distro kernel backports and dealing with AI-generated corner case bug reports that aren't u
by COGlory 3y ago
>Nowadays, people working on XFS seem to spend most of their time on distro kernel backports and dealing with AI-generated corner case bug reports that aren't user reports.
Could someone more familiar elaborate on how AIs are submitting filesystem bug reports?
- patrakov 3y agoIt's not AI. It's a sophisticated fuzzer called syzkaller. Google runs it as a bot, called syzbot, and for every crash or corruption it finds, it tries to bisect and send automated email to the correct maintainer and to the person whose patch introduced the bug. The email contains a reproducer. Example: https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/6/20/1355 https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/6/20/1355, which happens to involve XFS. Do read the first reply, it explains why XFS people are unhappy about this particular "finding". See also this LWN article about what's supposedly wrong with syzbot: https://lwn.net/Articles/917762/ https://lwn.net/Articles/917762/
- Spooky23 3y agoThat’s pretty obnoxious. I think the XFS guy was being reasonable and the Google person comes off as a whiny jerk. If some guy at my company reported something in error, wasting my time chasing butterflies, then turned around and made his defect an uncompensated assignment for me, that conversation isn’t gonna go well. It’s too bad too, as the overall goal of what’s being done is a worthy one.
- COGlory 3y agoFascinating comment thread. We need more humans.