From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97B8479CD; Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1781563684; cv=none; b=uSPtXSnynLFhCVchw8hZxvfYxJDUBGkuOXDWgAVlTHZZwxED3nAfeKMNdNXGP9r4wOCan/HQmwT2Wt45B/v4Lg0IO37XLa9rx/Dxc3OdvZXJrWbWs0jYkpsc2RYrQX90RihBJFnhwsTizy3Oa9sLhoVJfLM6I8tNeXqtYC4H7rM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1781563684; c=relaxed/simple; bh=CqpDulu3Uclnc4tI7DX6e5r2qCyKXkorUrUszaTc7X8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=dDzOALIxiqG875BbGBXU8AR9O0nbu/jXjUpjz/P29wYz0cBnp1xk74IjwN8BY2A/g1BIPnTLtylfSrTAKXGbj/hdBqgJxipmHneQjwxOenIkfEOO7Odzw/mBCkZ362uhKTc3bruZsWuZqksZem7wfKQavftSWeBh5IetoYxQB6s= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=BHSE3ZKG; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="BHSE3ZKG" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 347071F000E9; Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:48:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1781563683; bh=Zs8KpH+uagfCKB2jn26tTEhh3LE6JVismookwgsfOjA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=BHSE3ZKGn9vS2hG6yEsEpDp+9fUGDwaM0QlmAA2tM07RZP50NM5n+N6KK9VWPcrPP 1AJR8dWI2X/GXtcn5lyyVz9MhgsEW8+CXNl/tSIU1BDPTlJ2Ou5gY3sJNpfP4baUvr TR+Ri0ngWIpxdJMO3OiyOzINzmVZ/da3ItGzm0hSpEB7VeNa4covlAJCHY/DmKhpCI vCR2sOMrN/hu/NkTcc9AJnMk1dDOqIbB8FCoEni3dCxcFu8MqhuPFupwo4Ox5yggUG aXDghIv9aELmmLWD4TDYOxcoUT668/zno593CgiTe8prKjxCjabWnIc3aRDvQUaqE2 WDrtlnJhenpOA== Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:48:02 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Dan Carpenter , Jonathan Corbet , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stefano Zacchiroli , Steven Rostedt , Laura Abbott , Julia Lawall , Wenwen Wang , "Gustavo A . R . Silva" , Thorsten Leemhuis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Dawei Feng Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/process: Add Researcher Guidelines Message-ID: <202606151547.DB4095584@keescook> References: <20220304181418.1692016-1-keescook@chromium.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 03:48:22PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 01:34:34PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:14:18AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > ... > > > > + x86_64 and arm64 defconfig builds with CONFIG_FOO_BAR=y using GCC > > > + 11.2 show no new warnings, and LeakMagic no longer warns about this > > > + code path. As we don't have a FooBar device to test with, no runtime > > > + testing was able to be performed. > > > > People have started sending commit messages in this exact template and > > normally I would ask them resend with the meta commentary from this > > paragraph below the --- cut off line. > > > > Do we really want this "Compile tested only" stuff in the permanent git > > log? > > +1 here, can we rather avoid flooding commit messages with the meta, that > anyways is available in lore.kernel.org archives? Hm, I have gotten a lot of push-back from maintainers (reasonablly) wanting to know the specific level of testing patches get. In the case of lacking hardware, this seems like useful information still. -- Kees Cook