On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2017, 11:15:38 CET schrieb Dmitry Vyukov: > > Hi Dmitry, > >> >> What will be its meaning? How will it differ from fix? > > Maybe a short clarification would help: what is the meaning of the syz fix > marker? It's described here: https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#bug-status-tracking > Depending on this answer, all that I am thinking of is to mark bug > reports for which there are fixes actively discussed, but yet not integrated. > Thus, such marker should only help others to point them to active discussions > instead of them trying to find fixes alone. If it's only for humans, then there is no need to make a special machine-readable command for this. So basically what you wrote above is good: > This issue vanishes after applying the patch "[PATCH v2] crypto: AF_ALG - limit mask and type". I just didn't understand that's still pending (but perhaps that's what you meant by including "[PATCH v2]" part).