Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: security-bugs.rst: update preferences when dealing with the linux-distros group

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-03T15:01:02Z

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:14:05AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Because the linux-distros group forces reporters to release information
> > about reported bugs, and they impose arbitrary deadlines in having those
> > bugs fixed despite not actually being kernel developers, the kernel
> > security team recommends not interacting with them at all as this just
> > causes confusion and the early-release of reported security problems.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Yeah, this is good. It might make sense to explicitly detail the
> rationale in security-bugs.rst (as you have in the commit log), but
> perhaps that's too much detail.
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Thanks for the review. I'll keep this as-is as it's the content of the
file that matters in the end.

thanks,

greg k-h