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>,
Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] docs: security-bugs: clarify some mandatory steps for AI reports
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 22:35:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260802203540.3453-6-w@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260802203540.3453-1-w@1wt.eu>
The security team is still seeing a lot of reports lacking a full patch
and showing missing contents and formatting issues. Since AI assistants
tend to be better than humans at following instructions, let's defer to
coding-assistants.rst to follow mandatory steps, and insist on the plain
text format, as well as asking for recipient addresses and an e-mail
client setup hint to be mentioned early in the report for the reporter.
Also add a link to https://github.com/masoncl/kres.git which contains
way more advanced and detailed steps for those willing to go further.
Tested with Opus-5 and Qwen3.6-27B-Architect-Polaris2-Fable-B-F451, both
of which proceeded according to instructions.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
---
Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst b/Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst
index 6f7c21515e9ea..c7dfecc87764c 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst
@@ -229,6 +229,28 @@ there is no need to consume a maintainer's time with an unimportant report. If
the issue is clearly trivial and publicly discoverable, you should report it
directly to the public mailing lists.
+At the very least, when using an AI assistant to find and report bugs, make the
+assistant read this file and threat-model.rst before proceeding, and have it
+follow the procedure described in coding-assistants.rst: work on an up-to-date
+mainline tree and note the commit ID, verify the bug is real, write a fix,
+build it warning-free and checkpatch-clean, commit it with a Fixes tag, and
+identify the maintainers with get_maintainer.pl.
+
+On top of that procedure, the AI assistant **MUST**:
+
+1. Prepare a plain-text report explaining the problem. It must contain the
+ four items listed at the top of this file as absolutely necessary: the
+ affected version or commit ID noted while following the procedure above,
+ the description of the problem, the reproducer or its status, and the
+ triggering conditions.
+2. Start the report with a temporary section listing the recipients' addresses
+ (maintainers+list for the patch, maintainers only for the report and
+ reproducer), and with instructions reminding the reporter to check that
+ their email client is properly setup (see email-clients.rst), and leave it
+ to the reporter to remove that temporary section.
+
+A more detailed process is covered at https://github.com/masoncl/kres.git.
+
Sending the report
------------------
--
2.52.0
prev parent 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 [PATCH 0/5] docs: improve guidance for AI-assisted bug reports Willy Tarreau
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 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
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