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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-03T15:01:50Z

On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 05:00:51PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.

Ok, that didn't come out well, let me try again. Let's leave the text
as-is for now, thanks.

greg k-h