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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Clarify details for reporting security bugs
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 00:27:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170307002740.6eda92fa@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170306191351.GA87394@beast>

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:13:51 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> The kernel security team is regularly asked to provide CVE identifiers,
> which we don't normally do. This updates the documentation to mention
> this and adds some more details about coordination and patch handling
> that come up regularly. Based on an earlier draft by Willy Tarreau.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>

Seems good, applied to the docs tree, thanks.

> Related question: shouldn't security-bugs.rst and submitting-patches.rst live
> in /process/ rather than /admin-guide/ ?

The former should maybe be there, depending on just who we think it
should be aimed at, I guess.  submitting-patches.rst is already in
process/, though, so I'm not quite sure I understand that question?

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-07  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-06 19:13 Kees Cook
2017-03-07  7:27 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2017-03-07  7:47   ` Kees Cook

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