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Syzbot to Mainline: How I Merged 21 Kernel Patches as a First-Time Contributor

Open Source Summit India 2026 · The Linux Foundation · Mumbai

How I went from zero kernel knowledge to 21 merged patches in 3 months using syzbot — Google’s 24/7 kernel fuzzer. Covers the full workflow: picking bugs, reproducing crashes, reading KASAN reports, writing patches, and surviving code review from maintainers like Andrew Morton and Theodore Ts’o.

• event Open Source Summit India 2026 · The Linux Foundation
• topic Linux kernel contribution, syzbot, patch workflow, code review
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