From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754545AbdCGHi7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2017 02:38:59 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:36828 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750824AbdCGHiw (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2017 02:38:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 00:27:40 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Kees Cook Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Clarify details for reporting security bugs Message-ID: <20170307002740.6eda92fa@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20170306191351.GA87394@beast> References: <20170306191351.GA87394@beast> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:13:51 -0800 Kees Cook wrote: > The kernel security team is regularly asked to provide CVE identifiers, > which we don't normally do. This updates the documentation to mention > this and adds some more details about coordination and patch handling > that come up regularly. Based on an earlier draft by Willy Tarreau. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > Acked-by: Willy Tarreau Seems good, applied to the docs tree, thanks. > Related question: shouldn't security-bugs.rst and submitting-patches.rst live > in /process/ rather than /admin-guide/ ? The former should maybe be there, depending on just who we think it should be aimed at, I guess. submitting-patches.rst is already in process/, though, so I'm not quite sure I understand that question? Thanks, jon