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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, security@kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] docs: improve guidance for AI-assisted bug reports
Date: Sun,  2 Aug 2026 22:35:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260802203540.3453-1-w@1wt.eu> (raw)

While vulnerability reporters have now started CCing maintainers,
showing they read the docs, the security team still spends a lot of
time repeating the same comments about tested version, incomplete
fixes, poor email client setup causing formatting issues making
patches unusable, unverified reports and missing Assisted-By tags,
each time for AI-assisted reports.

This series adds small updates to security-bugs.rst, threat-model.rst
and coding-assistant.rst to better deal with this and provide minimal
instructions helping the LLM follow our expectations.

The updates were iteratively and carefully tested with 3 models,
Opus-5, Qwen3.6-27B-Architect-Polaris2-Fable-B-F451, and Gemini,
until all of them strictly followed the rules.

It is expected to further improve the situation.

Willy Tarreau (5):
  docs: threat-model: clarify "security bug" vs "vulnerability"
  docs: threat-model: move fake devices out of "non production use"
  docs: security-bugs: clarify what counts as a valid version
  docs: coding-assistant: explain important steps when looking for bugs
  docs: security-bugs: clarify some mandatory steps for AI reports

 Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 37 +++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst     | 26 ++++++++++++++
 Documentation/process/threat-model.rst      | 39 ++++++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

-- 
2.52.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-02 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-02 20:35 Willy Tarreau [this message]
2026-08-02 20:35 ` [PATCH 1/5] docs: threat-model: clarify "security bug" vs "vulnerability" Willy Tarreau
2026-08-02 20:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] docs: threat-model: move fake devices out of "non production use" Willy Tarreau
2026-08-02 20:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] docs: security-bugs: clarify what counts as a valid version Willy Tarreau
2026-08-02 20:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] docs: coding-assistant: explain important steps when looking for bugs Willy Tarreau
2026-08-02 20:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] docs: security-bugs: clarify some mandatory steps for AI reports Willy Tarreau

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