Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-15T12:00:35Z

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 02:10:07PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 14/02/2024 09:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > The Linux kernel project now has the ability to assign CVEs to fixed
> > issues, so document the process and how individual developers can get a
> > CVE if one is not automatically assigned for their fixes.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > v3: fix up wording in security-bugs.rst based on the changes to the cve
> > assignment process from v1, thanks to a private reviewer for
> > pointing that out.
> > v2: Grammer fixes based on review from Randy
> > Updated paragraph about how CVE identifiers will be assigned
> > (automatically when added to stable trees, or ask us for one
> > directly before that happens if so desired)
> >
> > Documentation/process/cve.rst | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 +
> > Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst | 5 +-
>
> Great direction! Finally all these bugs we are fixing every release
> (thus in stable trees) will get proper attention via assigned CVEs.
>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>

Thanks for the review!

greg k-h