Re: [PATCH] signal: clear JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK for caller in zap_other_threads()

[Aleksandr Nogikh]

On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 4:17 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 03:03:35PM +0200, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> > (+Greg)
> >
> > Hi Christian and Oleg,
> >
> > Thanks for reviewing and accepting the patch!
> >
> > However, it seems that we first need to clarify how these types of
> > patches should be submitted to ensure we don't violate the Linux
> > kernel rules regarding AI-assisted contributions.
>
> The documentation is very clear on this, what is missing?
>
> > In a discussion under another patch by syzbot [1], Greg noted that
> > syzbot cannot be listed as the author. The official documentation [2]
> > isn't very specific about how to handle this exact scenario.
>
> A "tool" can not sign off on a patch.  That's always been the case, a
> person has to take ownership and responsibility for it from a legal and
> technical point of view.  Again, nothing new here, been this way for a
> very long time.

The documentation was very clear that the `Signed-off-by` tag must
belong to a real person and these 2 patches actually did have such a
Signed-off-by.

We've just updated syzbot to also add a `From: ` tag with the
name/email of the person who pre-reviewed the patch and approved
sending it to LKML.

-- 
Aleksandr

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h