alt.hn

6/19/2026 at 1:01:52 PM

Linux Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman Says AI Tools Now Useful, Finding Real Bugs

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/26/linux-kernel-czar-says-ai-bug-reports-arent-slop-anymore/5226256

by root-parent

6/19/2026 at 1:08:40 PM

Not a kernel veteran, but I do send patches and reviews occasionally and as mentioned in the article, Sashiko is a big help. It can detect very obscure race conditions, stack leaks and other bugs that could cause a kernel panic. It's also really good at analyzing subsystem-specific nuances (in the IIO subsystem for example, it can get chip parameters from a datasheet and actually check whether the code reflects it correctly, e. g. with timing).

by cjd8

6/20/2026 at 1:53:21 AM

What percentage of those would be non-issues if the kernel used a different language?

by fred_is_fred

6/19/2026 at 6:01:21 PM

If you get reports on what looks like backdoor and do a gitblame, does the enail that returns get traced to other projects? Like is there a pattern detection to the authors that also allows for detection of current malicous contributors?

by warumdarum

6/19/2026 at 3:41:44 PM

Needs a [26th March 2026] tag. That's, like, 3 months ago. Can anything in it still be relevant?

by tom_

6/19/2026 at 9:27:40 PM

Sentiment was trending negative, HN needed some positive AI news, even if a bit old.

by sph

6/19/2026 at 5:44:42 PM

If it was a previous year one might expect (20xx). Anything posted in the same year does not typically have the date in the submission.

by Bender

6/19/2026 at 4:41:14 PM

Not everyone is a AI-firehose-of-news enjoyer.

by cyanydeez