A fuzzy issue of responsible disclosure [LWN.net]

A fuzzy issue of responsible disclosure

Posted Aug 19, 2022 1:15 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: A fuzzy issue of responsible disclosure by bferrell
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According to the article, XFS developer Darrick Wong (at least) believes these fuzzers should do a lot more than triage - he thinks they should debug (i.e. diagnose the bugs).

(Or maybe that's what you meant, but triage normally is a metaphor for the battlefield medicine practice of sorting patients into priority order based on prognosis, and I don't think sorting the bugs would satisfy Darrick Wong at all).

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A fuzzy issue of responsible disclosure

Posted Aug 19, 2022 13:51 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Sorting and deduplication could certainly help though. Probably not a *solution*, but I'd consider it progress. Such triage also helps less experienced developers have a shot at fixing it too.

I know there are certainly issues on the projects I work on that I've done the "here's where the code that needs changed lives" diagnosis publicly and sometimes contributors step up to actually do the work.