From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.formilux.org (mta1.formilux.org [51.159.59.229]) (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 012858488; Mon, 1 Dec 2025 07:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=51.159.59.229 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1764573191; cv=none; b=XOlsqtWQ1nGTJPTqlT3UyrZuxVlxWaCWamIPm2ZDqolR9T6tFURwjxtL9wRMmj2C8HbGkJYLGdUD5mCw9u4ansiRt+xBCEeJy/+b6/v8F/IwVLA7sZUQWGt/kCih2t9KxrEdX4Iy/jMSsxAUwmifZoUdNi06ZBXrbf09OFrE0xY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1764573191; c=relaxed/simple; bh=tan7erp1ZTKxUWHxvVMn+iQ7OvsvaEbwO0Ucja+nQPo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ZYBWp7eQQVqviOCI8u1nFM9VPOYiO03Rm+SjPL+X7//MKmjTbsAw9SAlPdYYwR28gV18MyHJEVFHQ/bBtk7y0g+I6DTSEyEMR3N/h+IomrhnzIUZyBaYX904z7dcAmyzqi2PYdnotubqw+JnkGja1/Ec92MQ63miHDBt3fELDss= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=1wt.eu; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=1wt.eu; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=1wt.eu header.i=@1wt.eu header.b=tfvNDpWf; arc=none smtp.client-ip=51.159.59.229 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=1wt.eu Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=1wt.eu Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=1wt.eu header.i=@1wt.eu header.b="tfvNDpWf" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1wt.eu; s=mail; t=1764573179; bh=oC5e19IhfsH6xgh10IQb7RxE2pgecoic4DeaK8bg9mo=; h=From:Message-ID:From; b=tfvNDpWfkoZuZ+9aitx7tOkorJ1aWiNoNtDLmUl/1X5H9GfkVoKPAgJ/ONtkGVuUj xZWqLbZCZ2nOXj1iCZUyG9rzuLtWAFlLSzT0Vb7jR7142c20HlLUrJZOYz2sLo5ipi +gPwRluTsdC4nBCqaConZZ+yznT0G9ZIDn3KxDpk= Received: from 1wt.eu (ded1.1wt.eu [163.172.96.212]) by mta1.formilux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C4CC0847; Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:12:59 +0100 (CET) Received: (from willy@localhost) by pcw.home.local (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 5B17CxIn023493; Mon, 1 Dec 2025 08:12:59 +0100 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 08:12:59 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Greg KH Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Security Officers , 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 Message-ID: <20251201071259.GA23487@1wt.eu> References: <20251129141741.19046-1-w@1wt.eu> <2025120112-sublet-parasitic-18da@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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: <2025120112-sublet-parasitic-18da@gregkh> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 07:38:17AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > 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 > > --- > > 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! :) At least it gives us a place to point to, saying "look at the rules". > 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 Thanks! Oh BTW I'm noticing a typo in the commit message above "full for" instead of "full of". Feel free to adjust it while applying, though it's really not important (and no, I won't respin a patch just for this :-)). Willy