On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 02:06:23AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 07:52:08PM +0530, Prithvi Tambewagh wrote:
> > Add documentation for the 'name' parameter in name_contains_dotdot()
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Prithvi Tambewagh <activprithvi@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Out of curiosity, could you describe the process that has lead to
> that patch?
>
> The reason why I'm asking is that there had been a truly ridiculous
> amount of identical patches, all dealing with exact same function.
>
> Odds of random coincedence are very low - there's quite lot of
> similar places, and AFAICS you are the 8th poster choosing the
> same one.
>
> I would expect that kind of response to a "kernel throws scary
> warnings on boot for reasonably common setups", but for a comment
> about a function being slightly wrong this kind of focus is
> strange.
>
> If that's some AI (s)tool responding to prompts along the lines of
> "I want to fix some kernel problem, find some low-hanging fruit
> and gimme a patch", we might be seeing a small-scale preview of
> a future DDoS with the same underlying mechanism...
You do know that kernel-doc warns about this, right?
$ ./scripts/kernel-doc -v -none include/linux/fs.h
[...]
Warning: include/linux/fs.h:3287 function parameter 'name' not described in 'name_contains_dotdot'
It's the only warning in include/linux/fs.h.
- Eric
