From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: using vulnerability ids in patches
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:59:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504774743.6177.0.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7415a11b-398c-69df-b39f-7b985f07112b@broadcom.com> (sfid-20170907_104050_278210_DDE1DE8D)
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 10:40 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Hi Kalle,
>
> Due to recent events we were asked about some vulnerability fixes
> for
> brcmfmac. We already fixed a couple of things without referring to a
> so-called CVE-ID, which is what people are asking for. Do we have a
> upstream policy on that? I could not really find anything in the
> Documentation folder (but I may have overlooked it). Might be worth
> mentioning in the commit message like with the coverity ids.
Sure.
git log --grep "CVE-"
shows it being done frequently.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-07 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-07 8:40 using vulnerability ids in patches Arend van Spriel
2017-09-07 8:59 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-09-07 9:28 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-07 9:38 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-07 9:40 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-07 9:59 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-07 12:34 ` Kalle Valo
2017-09-07 19:55 ` Arend van Spriel
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