[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] QR encoded oops for the kernel

[Greg KH]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 08:50:27PM +0300, Teodora Băluţă wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:09 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> > On 05/12/2014 09:49 AM, Levente Kurusa wrote:
> >>
> >> What I wonder is how could we get the server back-end to not allow
> >> the same oopses from bad users.
> >>
> >> Having a link like:
> >>
> >> oops.kernel.org/submit_oops.php?qr=$ENTROPY$BASE64DATA
> >>
> >> would mean that malicious users could edit the $ENTROPY part and
> >> hence effectively report the same oops twice. Maybe some checksum?
> >>  Or will it be too much for an already damaged kernel?
> >>
> >
> > What did the old kerneloops system do for these kinds of things?
> >
> > Again, I'm concerned that a KS session for this will turn into an
> > implementation discussion, which is better done by email.
> 
> Well, the discussion got a bit technical, but as Josh said, I see no
> point in doing that sort of talk (for technical discussion there's
> always the RFC thread [0]). I think what would be of interest is the
> way the workflow changes and the infrastructure you need to maintain.
> For example, at the moment, can you actually send an Oops directly to
> kernel.org by posting it in a query?

That is what the kerneloops.org site is for, please use that for stuff
like "automated oops reports", not bugzilla.kernel.org, as that is not
going to work at all.

thanks,

greg k-h