From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Security Officers <security@kernel.org>,
kees@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: insist on the plain-text requirement for security reports
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:32:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ipiywpd.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2025120112-sublet-parasitic-18da@gregkh>
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 03:17:41PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> As the trend of AI-generated reports is growing, the trend of unreadable
>> reports in gimmicky formats is following, and we cannot request that
>> developers rely on online viewers to be able to read a security report
>> full for formatting tags. Let's just insist on the plain text requirement
>> a bit more.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
>> ---
>> Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst | 6 +++++-
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Looks good to me! Given the number of non-plain-text emails with binary
> attachments we still get there, it's obvious not many people seem to
> read this file, but it can't hurt! :)
>
> I'll queue this up if Jon doesn't, after -rc1 is out. If he wants to
> take it, here's my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
I grabbed it, thanks.
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-22 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-29 14:17 [PATCH] Documentation: insist on the plain-text requirement for security reports Willy Tarreau
2025-12-01 6:38 ` Greg KH
2025-12-01 7:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2025-12-22 22:32 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2025-12-01 20:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2025-12-03 7:16 ` Willy Tarreau
2025-12-03 14:40 ` Kees Cook
2025-12-03 14:58 ` Willy Tarreau
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